Senior Data Architect Public Sector | Hybrid | Discovery Phase Programme
Opus Recruitment Solutions
Salary: £550 - £580 per day
IR35 - Inside ir35
10 Week Discovery with an option to go on for 2 years
Provided data architecture leadership for a large-scale public sector discovery, defining the data strategy, governance framework, and information architecture required to enable secure data sharing across multiple organisations.
Key Responsibilities
- Led the data architecture workstream, identifying data risks, dependencies, and opportunities across complex organisational landscapes.
- Defined target data models, schemas, and integration requirements to support operational and analytical outcomes.
- Designed scalable data architecture patterns, including cloud-based data platforms, APIs, and data-sharing solutions.
- Established information governance, data protection, and security frameworks to ensure compliance with regulatory and organisational standards.
- Collaborated with delivery, product, business analysis, and engineering teams to develop data-driven prioritisation and decision-support models.
- Validated data architecture assumptions through prototyping and user testing, translating findings into future-state architecture recommendations.
- Produced data strategy, governance, and architectural outputs to support progression into the next phase of delivery.
- Provided expert advice to senior stakeholders on data management, interoperability, and information governance.
- Enterprise Data Architecture and Strategy
- Data Modelling (Conceptual, Logical, Physical)
- Data Governance, Metadata Management, and Information Assurance
- Data Sharing, Privacy, GDPR, and Security Frameworks
- Cloud Data Platforms (AWS, Azure)
- Data Lakes, API-Based Integration, and Modern Data Architectures
- ArchiMate, UML, and Enterprise Architecture Modelling
- Agile Discovery and Service Design
- Stakeholder Engagement and Technical Leadership
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