Software Engineer

Data Architect

📍 Home-based UK | Belfast | Birmingham | London

💰 Up to £120,000 + 10% Bonus + Package

🔐 Active SC Clearance

Our client is one of the UK and Ireland’s leading digital transformation consultancies, delivering large-scale programmes across government, healthcare, defence, and enterprise organisations. They have built a strong reputation for combining high-level consulting with deep technical engineering capability, giving teams the opportunity to work on genuinely complex, high-impact data and AI transformation programmes.

Due to continued growth across their Data & AI practice, they are looking for an experienced Data Architect to join the business at Manager level.

This role is ideal for someone who can operate across both strategy and hands-on delivery. You will work closely with clients to shape data architecture approaches, solve complex data challenges, and lead teams delivering modern data platforms across large-scale transformation programmes.

You will also play a key role internally through technical leadership, mentoring, standards definition, and helping grow the wider data capability.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Designing enterprise-scale data architectures across complex transformation programmes
• Leading on data modelling, data flows, metadata management, governance, migration, and transformation
• Working closely with clients to define scalable, fit-for-purpose data solutions
• Providing technical leadership across delivery teams and wider architecture functions
• Supporting data platform, data lake, and modern cloud-based data ecosystem initiatives
• Helping clients improve data governance, data quality, and information management practices
• Managing, mentoring, and developing junior consultants and architects
• Engaging senior technical and non-technical stakeholders across public sector and healthcare environments

What They’re Looking For

• Strong experience within UK Public Sector or Healthcare environments
• Proven consulting experience delivering data-focused transformation programmes
• Deep expertise across core data architecture disciplines
• Experience leading technical teams and setting data standards and best practices
• Strong stakeholder engagement and client-facing capability
• Experience evaluating and selecting enterprise data technologies
• Highly proficient across multiple mainstream data technologies
• Comfortable operating in complex environments with ambiguity and evolving requirements

Desirable Experience

• Enterprise Data Architecture
• Data governance frameworks and operating models
• Data lake architecture and ecosystem design
• Information handling models and capacity planning
• Large-scale cloud data platform environments

Why This Opportunity Stands Out

You will be joining a business trusted to deliver some of the UK’s most visible and important digital transformation programmes. Their Data & AI capability continues to grow rapidly, with major investment across cloud, AI, analytics, and modern data platforms.

The environment is highly collaborative, technically strong, and delivery-focused. You will work alongside experienced architects, engineers, consultants, and AI specialists on projects that directly impact public services and large-scale organisational transformation.