Data Architect

Role Overview

**WHAT YOU WILL DO | **

• Design and implement scalable, secure, and high-performing data architectures across cloud and hybrid environments
• Define enterprise data models, standards, and governance frameworks to ensure consistency and interoperability
• Architect modern data platforms (data lakes, warehouses, lakehouses) to support analytics, AI, and operational use cases
• Lead client engagements as a trusted advisor on data strategy, architecture, and platform design
• Translate business and policy objectives into structured data solutions and pipelines
• Establish data governance practices including data quality, lineage, cataloguing, and access control
• Design data integration strategies across multiple systems, APIs, and external data sources
• Enable AI and advanced analytics use cases by ensuring data is structured, accessible, and production-ready
• Collaborate with engineering teams to implement pipelines, orchestration, and real-time/streaming architectures
• Balance long-term architecture vision with rapid delivery in dynamic environments

Requirements

**WHAT YOU’LL BRING | **

• 7+ years data architecture with deep Oracle and SQL Server expertise
• Informatica PowerCenter (or equivalent ETL platform)
• Change Data Capture (CDC) for incremental and near real-time sync
• Complex source-to-target mapping across large schema landscapes
• Bidirectional sync with conflict resolution strategies
• Data quality profiling, validation, and reconciliation frameworks
• Data governance, lineage tracking, and metadata cataloguing

**Good to have: **

• Domain-driven data modelling (database-per-service patterns)
• Liquibase or equivalent schema change management
• Physical schema design from logical/conceptual model

**WHAT WE VALUE | **

• Curiosity and action: You take initiative and explore new ideas
• Empathy and clarity: You’re a strong communicator and collaborator
• Delivery and impact: You’re focused on outcomes, not just outputs
• Passion and adaptability: You bring energy, depth, and flexibility to your work

Tech Stack

• Cloud
• ETL
• Informatica
• Oracle
• SQL

Benefits

*Meaningful impact***Your work helps shape products used at national scale

• enabling people to access services, opportunities, and support that make a real difference in everyday lives.

*Creative freedom***You will have room to explore ideas, test approaches, and raise the bar for design quality

• even in complex, regulated environments. We value thoughtful experimentation and encourage new ways of working.

*High-calibre collaboration***You’ll work alongside talented people across policy, data, design, and technology

• bringing different perspectives together to solve complex problems well.

*Flexibility that works***We operate in an outcome-driven, remote-friendly way that respects individual working styles. Trust, autonomy, and balance are core to how we work.

*Supportive culture***You will join a team that values respect, inclusion, and wellbeing

• where people are encouraged to do their best work without burning out.