Data Architect

Methods Analytics (MA) is recruiting for a Data Architect to join our team a permanent basis. 

This role will be mainly remote but require flexibility to travel to client sites, and our offices based in London, Sheffield, and Bristol. 

What You'll Be Doing as a Data Architect: 

• Advocate the business benefit of data standards, championing and governing those standards across projects and the organisation 

• Demonstrate an overall perspective on business issues and activities, determining patterns, standards, policies, roadmaps and vision statements 

• Make and guide effective decisions, explaining clearly how decisions have been reached and resolving technical disputes across varying levels of complexity and risk 

• Communicate effectively across organisational, technical and political boundaries, making complex technical information accessible for non-technical audiences 

• Design how to expose data from systems (APIs, real-time streams), link data from multiple systems, and deliver modern data services 

• Ensure that risks associated with deployment are adequately understood and documented 

• Design end-to-end data solutions from requirements through implementation, including technical documentation and architecture blueprints 

• Lead complex data migration projects from legacy systems to modern cloud-native platforms 

• Evaluate and recommend appropriate technologies across the modern data stack to meet specific client needs 

• Mentor junior team members and collaborate with data engineers, software engineers, data scientists, and business stakeholders 

Your Impact: 

• Enable transformative business decisions through robust, scalable data architectures 

• Drive adoption of modern data platforms and AI-enabled analytics solutions 

• Establish technical standards and architectural patterns that ensure quality, security, and maintainability 

• Help cultivate a data-driven culture within client organisations and internally 

• Deliver architectures that seamlessly integrate traditional and modern data systems 

Requirements

You Will Demonstrate: 

• Deep knowledge of the Azure data stack (Azure SQL Server, CosmosDB, Azure Data Factory, Purview, Synapse, Event Hub, Azure Databricks/Fabric)