Data Architect

<p><strong>Data Architect<br /> London (Hybrid)<br /> 6 Month Contract<br /> &pound;500/day (Outside IR35)</strong></p> <p>Data Architect needed with Retail sector and large-scale cloud data platform experience including Databricks, Snowflake and/or BigQuery.</p> <p>6 Month Rolling Contract. Hybrid Working &#8211; 2 days/week remote (WFH) + 3 days/week working from the <em>London </em>office. Start ASAP in March/April 2026.</p> <p>A chance to work with a leading global IT transformation business specialising in large-scale Government projects.</p> <ul> <li>Hands-on data architecture experience with 2 or more major cloud data platform implementations (Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery).</li> <li>Retail industry experience strongly preferred including Retail data domains: Point of Sale (POS), consumer, trade promotion, supply chain, finance.</li> <li>Supporting the end-to-end data architecture life-cycle including: discovery, design + implementation phases.</li> <li>Large-scale data platform modernisation, consolidation + migration programmes experience.</li> <li>In-depth experience in data platform architecture + data engineering roles.</li> <li>Evaluating current platforms + designing integration and migration patterns for a future data platform.</li> <li>Performing As-Is assessments of existing data platforms including: environments, data flows, patterns, governance, performance + cost hotspots.</li> <li>Designing integration patterns to enable safe + efficient cross-platform data analytics + data sharing.</li> <li>Defining target state technical patterns for how multiple platforms converge / coexist including: data engineering, data storage, ML/AI, BI, security + governance.</li> <li>Target architecture blueprint including concrete reference architectures, pattern catalogues + technical guardrails.</li> <li>Cross cloud integration patterns including: networking, identity, data movement, catalog/governance integration.</li> </ul>