Data Architect

Data Architect | Contract
Edinburgh, Hybrid
£525 to £600 per day
Inside IR35
Initial 6 months
Bright Purple are looking for an experienced Data Architect to join a major data transformation programme in Edinburgh. This role sits at the heart of the technical data architecture, translating wider architecture principles into practical, buildable solutions across data ingestion, processing, storage, integration and consumption. Youll work closely with data engineers, platform engineers, software engineers, modellers and governance teams, defining the technical patterns and guardrails that engineering teams will actually build against.
What were looking for: Strong practical Data Architecture experience
Modern cloud data platform architecture
Snowflake and Oracle, or comparable OLAP and OLTP technologies
Advanced SQL and strong ELT and data transformation knowledge
Data warehouse and lakehouse architecture
Batch, event driven and analytical data patterns
APIs, integration and orchestration
Logical, physical and semantic data design
Metadata, catalogue and lineage implementation
Data security, privacy and access control patterns
DevOps/DataOps, CI/CD and infrastructure as code awareness
Strong understanding of performance, scalability and cost optimisation
Youll define reusable architecture patterns across pipelines, platforms, APIs, events and analytical services, while ensuring security, data quality, observability, resilience and operational support are designed in from the outset.
This is an initial 6 month contract, Inside IR35, paying £525 to £600 per day.
The role is hybrid in Edinburgh, with a minimum of two days per week in the office. There are no fixed anchor days.
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