Senior Data Architect - Permanent + Contract

Senior Data Architect - Permanent + Contract

Permanent salary: up to £85,000 | Contract rate: £450-£500 per day, outside IR35

Working pattern: Hybrid - one day per week in London

About Scrumconnect Consulting

Scrumconnect Consulting is a multi-award-winning digital consultancy, recognised for delivering impactful and innovative technology solutions across UK government departments. Our work has positively influenced the lives of over 40 million UK citizens.

We are passionate about user-centred design, agile delivery and building digital services that make a real difference. Our teams work at the forefront of innovation, helping organisations transform and deliver high-quality, scalable solutions that truly matter.

This opportunity is available on either a permanent basis, with a salary of up to £85,000, or on a contract basis at £450-£500 per day, outside IR35.

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Data Architect to design how data is structured, shared and governed across public sector services. You will define data models and standards that let organisations share and reuse data with confidence.

Key responsibilities

• Design conceptual, logical and physical data models for complex services.
• Define data standards, identifiers and reference data that work across organisations.
• Design data flows, integration patterns and APIs for sharing data.
• Set data governance, quality, lineage and metadata approaches.
• Make sure designs meet security, privacy and UK GDPR requirements.
• Produce architecture artefacts such as data architecture views, decision records and roadmaps.
• Work with product, research, analysis and engineering teams so data design meets real needs.
• Take designs through technical governance and advise senior stakeholders.

Essential skills and experience

• Extensive experience as a data architect on complex systems.
• Strong data modelling skills across relational and modern data platforms.
• Experience defining data standards, interoperability and data sharing approaches.
• Experience with data governance, quality and metadata management.
• Knowledge of cloud data platforms such as Azure, AWS or GCP.
• Ability to explain data architecture to technical and non-technical audiences.

Desirable

• UK government or public sector experience.
• Experience with open standards and the Technology Code of Practice.
• Experience with registers, identifiers or master data management.