Data Architect | Hybrid | RCT (South Wales)
IntaPeople are proud and excited to be appointed to recruit an experienced Data Architect for a Welsh-based not-for-profit sector client on an exclusive growth project.
This is a very exciting opportunity to join their fast-growing Data function in this newly created position. You will be joining the data team as one of the first handful of team members in this area of the business which will work with external partners to build out the organisations data capability offering. As a Data Architect, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining robust, scalable, and secure data pipelines and platform that enable them to make data -driven decisions at a enterprise level.
Working closely with the ‘Head of Data Engineering’ you will help grow out this data function with the recruitment of further data engineering resources whilst working closely with solutions architects and Software Engineers. You will also get the opportunity to progress into a leadership role if this suited the individuals’ desires and capabilities.
You will shape, govern and assure the organisation’s data architecture, defining, designing and maintaining strategic data models, standards, flows and governance structures that support organisational goals, ensure compliance, foster collaboration across business areas, and enable the organisation to make data-driven decisions
Essential Skills
- Proven experience as a Senior Data Engineer or Data Architect (or similar/related role).
- Experience with Enterprise level Data sets.
- Expertise and practical experience in designing and aligning data models across multiple subject areas, applying recognised patterns and industry standards.
- Familiarity with structured architectural approaches found in TOGAF (data architecture) or equivalent.
- Proven experience defining and evolving data governance, including data quality, metadata, lineage, and policy assurance across services.
- Strong capability in data profiling, source system analysis and identifying links across problem domains to define common, reusable solutions.
- Experience of communicating technical information and data to a non technical audience and working collaboratively with analysts, architects, and product owners to deliver data solutions that meet user and organisational needs.
- Ability to lead and mentor other team members.
- Demonstrable knowledge of data modelling and data warehousing within platforms such as Azure or AWS.
- Practical experience with Microsoft Azure services, including Azure Data Lake (Gen2), Synapse, Event Hubs, and Cosmos DB, within scalable cloud -based architectures.
- Robust understanding of data governance, data quality, and metadata management.
Desirable skills
- Experience with Azure Data Factory, Databricks, or Apache Spark, following modern ETL/ELT principles.
- Experience in using Git, Azure DevOps, or GitHub Actions for version control, CI/CD, and collaborative data delivery.
- Experience with Big Data.
- Certification in data architecture or governance frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, DAMA, DCAM, EDMC).
- Experience of using programming languages such as Python, Scala and SQL
- Welsh language skills.
Key Responsibilities (at a glance):
- Establish Data strategies and data modelling internally within the data estate
- Lead the design and oversight of enterprise‑aligned data models and supporting data architecture, ensuring that all modelling approaches follow organisational standards, recognised patterns, and enable scalable, high‑quality data flows across services.
- Provide expert architectural guidance to technical teams delivering cloud‑based data platforms, ensuring that data integration, modelling, metadata and design decisions align with organisational and enterprise-wide standards
- Work closely with other business leaders to maintain governance and compliance within their data estate.
- Work closely with data analysts,data engineering, Enterprise and solution architects, DevOps, and business stakeholders through regular communication and collaborative planning to ensure data solutions are closely aligned with business objectives and effectively meet user needs.
- Contribute to the development and execution of the Data Strategy by maintaining thorough documentation of data processes, architectures, and workflows to ensure all technical and process information is systematically recorded, updated and data initiatives deliver business value and are aligned with broader technology and organisational goals
- Research into emerging technologies and upcoming trends
- Provide oversight to teams building data processing pipelines and integration patterns, ensuring their artefacts are consistent with data architecture principles and metadata strategies.
- Lead on the introduction of foundational data management capabilities to improve trust, accessibility, and efficiency in an organisation that has limited data management capability, lacks data management practices, including governance, metadata standards, and quality controls.
- Design, implement, and optimise physical data models that align with pipeline architecture, by using the approach that ensures efficient query performance, scalable storage, and robust integration and delivers adaptable and resource -efficient data processing, meeting the organisation’s evolving analytical and operational demands.
- Managing the aspirations of a variety of stakeholders to enable successful project delivery can be challenging, especially when their priorities may differ or even conflict and require reconciliation to meet business and project needs.
What you’ll get in return (at a glance)
- A salary of circa £62,500 - £67,500 (depending on experience)
- 28 days annual leave + public bank holidays
- Hybrid working - To be based in their brand new, modern offices 1-2 days per week
- A flexible working environment
- Competitive Legal and General pension Scheme (8% employer contribution)
- 4 x Death in service
- The opportunity to work on modern and industry changing projects
- Progression and development opportunities
- Free Rail travel throughout Wales and discounted throughout the UK
- Salary sacrifice scheme such as – cycle to work, electric vehicle
- A chance to truly contribute to large scale digitalisation projects within Wales
For more information click APPLY now or for a confidential chat call Nathan Handley on 02920 252 500.
This role is commutable from Swansea, Bridgend, Pontypridd, Cardiff and Newport or surrounding areas.