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Requirements
Must:
- 15+ years of overall IT experience, with at least 5+ years of hands-on experience in enterprise data architecture, design, governance, and implementation.
- Strong experience designing and implementing enterprise-grade ETL/ELT data pipelines.
- Hands-on experience with tools such as SQL, NoSQL Datastores, Talend, Informatica, IBM DataStage, or equivalent platforms.
- Proven experience acting as an enterprise or lead data architect within a large, multinational organization.
- Strong knowledge of data modeling techniques (conceptual, logical, and physical).
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Solid understanding of SDLC methodologies including Agile, DevOps, rapid prototyping, and iterative delivery models.
- Ability to assess and estimate the financial impact of technology decisions.
- Capability to evaluate emerging technologies and understand their impact on business models.
Responsibilities
- Define enterprise data architecture aligned with GDPR and organizational data strategy.
- Design conceptual, logical, and physical data models for relational databases, NoSQL databases, and unstructured data.
- Establish standards for data classification, metadata, and ownership across structured and unstructured data.
- Ensure data models support traceability, lineage, and regulatory reporting.
- Architect privacy by design and privacy by default solutions.
- Define data retention, archival, anonymization, and deletion strategies across all data stores.
- Design architectures supporting DSAR, right to erasure, and consent management.
- Define security architecture including role-based access control, column/row level security, data masking, tokenization, and encryption.
- Ensure compliance across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments.
- Implement and operationalize key compliance capabilities: data retention & archival policies, right to erasure, data minimization, security & access controls, auditability, traceability & data lineage.
- Work with Risk and Compliance teams to translate regulatory needs into technical design.
- Design and govern enterprise data integration architectures using ETL/ELT frameworks and API-based integration.
- Define integration patterns for real-time, near real-time, and batch processing.
- Lead data migration initiatives from legacy and distributed systems to centralized platforms.
- Define migration strategies including data profiling and cleansing, PII identification, and remediation.
- Validate post-migration data quality, security, and accessibility.
- Provide architectural leadership and guidance to Data Engineers and Platform teams.
- Support GDPR audits, regulatory assessments, and architectural reviews.
- Define and maintain architecture standards, patterns, and documentation.
Description
We are seeking an experienced Data Architect for a 6-month contract based in Glasgow, requiring on-site work 2-3 days per week. This role offers a daily rate of £700. We aim to build a compliant enterprise data architecture that aligns with GDPR while fostering a collaborative environment where you will work closely with Data Engineers, Legal, Compliance, Security, and Risk teams. Join our team and contribute to delivering innovative data solutions that ensure privacy by design.
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