Data Architect - Contract

Our client are top tier consultancy looking for a Data Architect on a 6 months contract.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and delivery of AWS-based data architectures to support analytics, reporting, and operational systems.

• Define data ingestion, transformation, and storage strategies using AWS native services.

• Collaborate with stakeholders, data engineers, and business analysts to ensure solutions meet requirements.

• Optimise data pipelines for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.

• Ensure compliance with data security, governance, and GDPR standards.

• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and best practice guidance to the wider engineering team.

• Create and maintain detailed architecture diagrams, documentation, and data models.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Proven experience as a Data Architect on AWS cloud platforms.

• Strong expertise with AWS services such as S3, Redshift, Glue, Lambda, Kinesis, DynamoDB, RDS, Athena.

• Hands-on experience with ETL design and data pipeline development.

• Proficiency in data modelling and designing for both OLAP and OLTP systems.

• Strong understanding of security best practices and IAM policies in AWS.

• Experience with Python or PySpark for data processing.

• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience in the UK public sector with GDS-aligned delivery.

• Active SC clearance.

• Knowledge of streaming data solutions and event-driven architectures.