Data Solution Architect

Data Solution Architect
Max Supplier Rate: £690
Clearance Required: BPSS
Duration:6 months
Location Telford
Mostly remote but monthly travel for 2-day team events is expected. Locations will vary between Telford, Birmingham, Manchester or London.
IR35 Status: Inside

Job Description:
The Data Solution Architect will lead technical discovery activities to assess the feasibility of acquiring, integrating, governing and presenting third-party and government data within future One Income Tax Service (OneITS) products. The role will provide architectural leadership throughout discovery, helping HMRC understand the opportunities, constraints, risks and dependencies associated with pre-population of customer data, whilst ensuring alignment with OneITS strategic objectives, the MTD roadmap, Government Digital Blueprint principles, and HMRC enterprise architecture standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Discovery & Technical Assessment
• Lead the technical discovery of agreed third-party and government data sources, assessing their suitability, availability, quality and integration feasibility.
• Define and document current-state and potential future-state architectural patterns for data acquisition, storage, management and consumption.
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, assumptions and constraints associated with pre-population capabilities.
• Collaborate with policy, security, legal and operational stakeholders to ensure discovery findings consider all relevant factors.
• Support the development of evidence-based recommendations to inform future Alpha investment decisions.
• Architecture & Integration Strategy
• Assess integration approaches including APIs, data sharing arrangements, event-driven architectures and batch processing models.
• Define target-state architecture principles aligned to OneITS strategic direction and enterprise reuse opportunities.
• Evaluate options for identity resolution, data matching, reconciliation and confidence scoring across multiple data sources.
• Identify opportunities to establish reusable capabilities that can support multiple income types and future services.
• Ensure alignment with existing client platforms, strategic capabilities and future architecture roadmaps.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Proven experience as a Solution Architect within large-scale public sector or enterprise transformation programmes.
• Strong understanding of integration architecture, APIs, cloud-native solutions and modern data platforms.
• Experience assessing and designing data acquisition, data management and interoperability solutions.
• Knowledge of security, privacy and governance considerations associated with handling sensitive customer data.
• Experience producing architecture artefacts, technical assessments and options appraisals.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to business and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience working in Agile, product-centric and multidisciplinary delivery environments.
• Strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills.

Desirable Skills

• Understanding of OneITS strategic objectives and Modernising Tax Delivery ambitions.
• Experience with identity resolution, data matching, reconciliation or master data management approaches.
• Knowledge of Government Digital Service standards and Government Digital Blueprint principles.
• Experience working with third-party data providers, data-sharing arrangements or regulated data ecosystems.
• Familiarity with event-driven architecture and enterprise integration patterns.
• Experience supporting discovery and Alpha phases within government programmes.

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