Senior Data Architect Public Sector | | Discovery Phase Programme

Senior Data Architect Public Sector | Hybrid | Discovery Phase ProgrammeLocation: Remote - Once or twice across the contract onsite to your local office

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.Skills & Experience

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