Senior Data Architect

In this Senior Data Architect role, you will provide technical leadership within the Data & AI practice and act as a trusted adviser to clients in healthcare or public sector settings. You’ll design scalable data architectures, govern data strategies, and coach a small data team. The position blends hands-on architecture, client consulting, and people development to shape data solutions across complex environments. You’ll drive architecture decisions and modern data platform implementations while ensuring regulatory alignment and enterprise impact.

• hybrid working
• permanent role
• Location: Leeds, Yorkshire and the Humber

• Lead the design of robust, scalable data architectures across complex transformation programmes.
• Guidance on data modelling, structures, flows, sourcing, transformation, migration and master data.
• Translate business and technical requirements into practical data solutions.
• Assess and modernise data environments; optimise data capabilities.
• Ensure architecture assurance across project lifecycles against business, technical and regulatory needs.
• Establish standards and best practices for data architecture.
• Address data definition, ownership, mastering and information-management challenges.
• Contribute to enterprise data architecture decisions as needed.
• Recommend data technologies and products based on client requirements.
• Engage with clients to understand data challenges and strategic objectives.
• Build relationships with stakeholders and communicate complex concepts clearly.
• Provide independent thought leadership on data architecture and industry practices.
• Facilitate workshops to establish data strategies and architectural direction.
• Act as a trusted advisor to challenge assumptions and guide technology decisions.
• Help establish effective data governance frameworks and information-handling models.
• Support capacity planning and decision-making across multiple storage technologies.
• Design and assure solutions in modern data-platform environments and data lake ecosystems.
• Stay informed on cloud, analytics, AI technologies and their enterprise applications.
• Manage, coach and develop a small team; support performance and career development.
• Promote knowledge sharing, collaboration and continuous improvement.

• Significant Data Architecture experience with strong client-facing and technical leadership
• Experience in UK Healthcare or Public Sector
• Expertise in data modelling, data analysis, metadata management, data transformation, data migration and master data
• Proven track record of providing architecture assurance, mentoring and standards definition
• Knowledge of data architecture methodologies, patterns and best practices
• Experience selecting data products and technologies at project or enterprise level
• Ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Confidence in providing technical thought leadership to clients and internal teams
• Knowledge of at least three mainstream data technologies and awareness of broader data tech trends
• Proactive, resilient, and able to operate where requirements or priorities are uncertain
• Experience coaching or developing junior data professionals

• strong stakeholder engagement
• clear and effective communication
• leadership and mentorship
• data modelling
• data analysis
• metadata management