Senior Data Architect

Leading payments company looking for a Data Architect to join the team on a long-term contract basis. You will work across business, architecture and engineering teams to understand requirements and design scalable, practical and well-governed data solutions.

This role will focus on architecture, enterprise and domain modelling, documentation, governance, integration patterns and guiding delivery teams.

Key responsibilities

• Translate business and technical requirements into data architecture designs
• Produce domain, conceptual, logical and physical data models
• Design scalable solutions for transactional and enterprise systems
• Define data integration patterns and architecture standards
• Contribute to data strategy and architecture-governance reviews
• Produce clear architecture documentation, presentations and technical artefacts
• Assess technology options and clearly explain recommendations and trade-offs
• Support modernisation, migration and transformation initiatives
• Work with developers and engineering teams to implement the agreed architecture
• Include performance, resilience, scalability and disaster-recovery considerations within designs

Priority profile

• Strong enterprise and domain data-modelling fundamentals
• Domain-driven design and CQRS knowledge
• OLTP and transactional-system experience
• Conceptual, logical and physical modelling experience
• Strong stakeholder communication and presentation skills
• Ability to work across several teams and complex systems
• Good understanding of enterprise integration and data governance
• Experience moving from waterfall towards Agile and iterative delivery
• Nice to have - Oracle, PostgreSQL, Cassandra or YugabyteDB experience
• Awareness of how AI is changing architecture, governance and delivery

*Based in London, Brighton or Burgess Hill - 3 days in office per week* #J-18808-Ljbffr

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