Senior Manager Associate Director Data Architect

Salary: £95,000 - 130,000 per year

Requirements

• All applicants must hold SC level clearance.
• Consulting experience, including working on client facing projects.
• Experience of contributing to proposal writing, presentations and pre-sales activities and driving opportunity development.
• Deep Data Architecture experience either within an industry Data or Enterprise Architecture role, or similar within Consulting.
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
• Strong executive-level stakeholder management using clear communications and being able to form strong client relationships.
• Strong experience as a leader of people, providing dynamic day-to-day leadership that nurtures and develops junior talent, creating effective data design teams.
• Experience in data solution architecture, including establishing design principles, defining solution patterns, and following architecture methodologies.
• Expertise in Data Lake, Lakehouse, and Data Mesh architecture.
• Observability and FinOps (Financial Operations) expertise.
• Experience of establishing common data models and suitable structures to enhance reporting.
• Data Management skills including setting up frameworks describing the processes to plan, specify, enable, create, acquire, maintain, use, archive, retrieve, control and purge data.
• Experience of Data Ontology (Data Catalogue, Data Dictionary and Data Lineage).
• Experience of producing diagrams representing key data entities and their relationships.
• Ability to define the processes to capture, transform and deliver usable data to information users and identify the people who will consume the data and their unique requirements.
• Solid foundation in systems development, including understanding the system development life cycle, project management approaches, and requirements, design, and test techniques.
• Demonstrable experience of data modelling and design in a large complex organisation.
• Experience and understanding of both established and emerging data technologies, including established data management and reporting technologies.
• Expert knowledge of SQL databases alongside some knowledge of columnar and NoSQL databases, predictive analytics, data visualization, and unstructured data.
• Strong understanding of various data modelling methodologies, e.g. dimensional modelling and data vault.
• Good understanding of Data/Information Governance principles and familiarity with processes, policies, and key vendor platforms such as Collibra and Informatica.
• Excellent communication skills; must be articulate, persuasive and able to portray the bigger picture to others.
• Experience of flowing data from source systems to business users and creating interconnected data pipelines that serve various business needs using base data objects.
• Experience in engaging with both Business and IT stakeholders to document business outcomes and objectives for large-scale solutions and programmes.
• Experience in working with peers and senior enterprise solution/data architects to align data architecture blueprints across different business units and geographies.
• Experience collaborating and coordinating stakeholders, partners, and external vendors.
• Experience or working knowledge of load operations and refresh rates, e.g. batch, mini-batch, stream, and query operations, e.g. create, read, update, delete.
• Experience or working knowledge of deployments, e.g. on premises, public cloud, private cloud, hybrid.
• Experience of data processing engines and pipelines, e.g. relational, OLAP, SQL, graphing, mapping, programmatic, data warehouse, data mart, OLAP cubes, visual discovery, real-time operational applications.
• Ability to stay ahead of technical advancements in cloud analytics and data management space.
• Industry-recognised certifications, e.g. DAMA CDMP, TOGAF, vendor/platform specific e.g. AWS/GCP/Azure.
• Good understanding of regulatory and compliance requirements such as GDPR.

Responsibilities

• Develop enterprise Conceptual, Logical, and Physical Data Models, conforming to national and international standards and conventions.
• Provide leadership and guidance on enterprise Data and AI Strategies in highly complex multi-disciplinary environments.
• Analyse systems, data and processes to understand clients existing Data Architecture landscapes and define the target state.
• Provide Data Architecture oversight for delivery teams to ensure reliable, scalable, highly available, and maintainable systems.
• Introduce data best practices and principles to accelerate technology delivery.
• Lead and mentor junior Data Architects, Data Analysts, Data Modellers and AI Engineers.
• Create and maintain guidance on Data Architecture tools, platforms, operations, and security.
• Lead and support Data and AI Proof of Concepts, pilots and experiments.
• Lead and manage organization-wide Data Governance activities.
• Establish and ensure adherence to Data Governance policies, standards and processes.
• Act as an escalation point for Data Governance, Data Quality and Data Protection/Compliance issues.
• Work with business leaders to improve Data Maturity and Data Quality.

Technologies

• AI
• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Data Vault
• Data Warehouse
• GCP
• Informatica
• Support
• NoSQL
• SQL
• Security
• TOGAF
• Architect

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We are a growing Data & AI Architecture team within our Technology & Transformation business, supporting Government and Public Services clients on some of the biggest and most ambitious programmes across government. We offer hybrid working from London, Bristol, or Manchester, with the flexibility to work in local offices, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely depending on role requirements. We are committed to inclusion, wellbeing, development and purposeful work, and we offer a culture where people are supported, heard and empowered to grow their expertise and make an impact.

last updated 36 week of 2026