Data Architect

Sopra Steria • Full-time • Remote (Salford, Greater Manchester, GB) • 6d ago

Do you enjoy shaping robust data solutions and leading teams to deliver high-quality outcomes for clients? As a Senior Data Architect within our Data & AI Practice, you will play a critical role in the technical delivery of complex data solutions across our Strategic Digital Solutions sector.

In this role, you will set the technical direction on projects, ensuring data architectures meet client needs while being delivered to agreed time, budget and quality expectations. You will work in a collaborative, professional services environment where coaching others, improving standards and sharing knowledge are actively encouraged. Alongside project delivery, you will contribute to developing repeatable data platform offerings and help strengthen how we work as a wider data and AI community.

We can offer great career progression opportunities, ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs, and training and development opportunities.

What you’ll be doing:

Leading the technical delivery of enterprise data solutions to meet agreed time, budget and quality outcomes.
Providing specialist data architecture input into bids, solution design and delivery projects.
Designing end-to-end data architectures and producing clear, high-quality design artefacts.
Leading and directing data engineering teams, including line management responsibilities.
Acting as a trusted technical advisor to clients on data architecture, strategy and governance.
Contributing to reusable data platforms, technical standards and practice capability.

What you’ll bring:

Proven experience in enterprise and solution data architecture using recognised frameworks such as The Open Group Architecture Framework.
Hands-on experience designing and delivering modern data platforms using technologies such as Azure Data Lake Gen2, Azure Synapse Analytics, Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, Oracle, SAP or Teradata.
Strong expertise in data integration and pipeline development using tools such as Azure Data Factory, Microsoft Fabric, Talend, IBM DataStage, SAS DI Studio or AWS Glue.
Advanced data modelling, transformation and querying skills using languages such as SQL and Python.
Experience delivering data quality, metadata management and governance solutions using tools such as Microsoft Purview, Collibra Data Catalog, Informatica IDQ or Talend Data Quality.
A strong track record of leading technical teams in client-facing environments and taking accountability for delivery quality.

If you’re interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent.
Location: UK wide.
Security Clearance Level: SC.
Internal Recruiter: Annecia.
Salary: Up to £75,000.
Benefits: £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund.

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

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With a long history of delivering transformation, we've developed a market-leading partnership ecosystem to provide business services of the future and shape valuable, positive outcomes for communities. We empower our clients by providing innovative solutions and commercial models that help them meet their business needs, drive operational efficiencies, and deliver impactful value creation. We remain committed to values of excellence, empathy and respect to produce transformative outcomes in business processing – creating value for all.

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.