Data Architect

Role Overview

• Architect and assure enterprise data foundations that underpin synthetic environments, enabling high-fidelity simulation, analysis, and integration across customer platform layers.
• Define, maintain, and govern coherent enterprise data models, including documentation of both as-is and to-be states.
• Establish and enforce data standards, naming conventions, and modelling approaches to ensure consistency, interoperability, and reuse across the estate.
• Assure supplier data designs and artefacts, holding the delivery partner to account for alignment with agreed data architecture principles and standards.
• Document data requirements for new and emerging functional needs, including the onboarding of new data types and sources.
• Evaluate data architecture options to support enterprise AI platform development, ensuring data is suitable for advanced analytics and AI use cases.
• Engage with customer technical and operational stakeholders to align data architecture decisions with user needs and platform constraints.
• Provide data architecture governance and assurance across design and live service, ensuring decisions are documented, traceable, and fit for long-term operation.

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience operating as a Data Architect at enterprise or organisational scale.
• Proven ability to define, govern, and assure enterprise data models and standards.
• Strong experience documenting as-is and to-be data architectures.
• Ability to assure supplier data designs and hold delivery partners to account.
• Experience supporting data architectures for analytics, AI, or simulation-based systems.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, able to influence senior technical and operational audiences.
• Ability to operate with authority and autonomy in complex, ambiguous environments.
• Experience working in secure, regulated, or government environments.
• SFIA Level 6 capability in Data Architecture or Information Management.
• Experience supporting enterprise AI or advanced analytics platforms.
• Familiarity with data governance frameworks and reference architectures.
• Experience working alongside solution, security, or platform architects

Benefits

We are committed to building a flexible, inclusive, and enabling company. Our aim is to create a diverse team of talented people with unique skills, experience, and backgrounds, so please apply and come as you are!

We also recognise the importance of flexible working and support this wherever we can. We typically operate a flexible, hybrid-working model, with an average 3 days in the office each week (dependent on the role). We welcome the opportunity to discuss flexibility, part-time working requirements and/or workplace adjustments with all our applicants.

Rowden is a Disability Confident Committed company, and we actively encourage people with disabilities and health conditions to apply for our roles. Please let us know your requirements early on so that we can make sure you have everything you need up front to help make the recruitment process and experience as easy as possible.

Finally, if you feel that you don’t meet all the criteria included above but have transferable skills and relevant experience, we’d still love to hear from you!