Senior Data Architect - DWP - G7

Senior Data Architect – DWP – G7

Manchester Digital

The Citizen Information team role can be located in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, or Sheffield. The Children and Families team role will be located in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Candidates requesting to work in Newcastle will be based at Benton Park View from September 2025, then at 1 Pilgrim Place in Newcastle city centre by end‑2027.

Collaborative, modern IT architecture design for some of the largest digital transformations in Europe. We seek experienced Senior Data Architects who are confident working on data‑focused products/services in a complex digital environment, supporting major initiatives across DWP Digital. The role involves collaborating with colleagues and stakeholders to support solution delivery, create options and recommendations, and provide expert advice to drive technology choice decisions.

• Design data models and metadata systems.
• Help lead data architects to interpret the organisation’s needs.
• Provide oversight and advice to other data architects designing and producing data artefacts.
• Design and support the management of data dictionaries.
• Ensure teams work to the standards set by the lead data architects.
• Work with technical architects to ensure systems are designed in accordance with the appropriate data architecture.

• Data architecture design and modelling techniques, patterns, tools and standards.
• Presenting data architecture design to technical governance forums.
• Experience with data modelling, Master Data Management (MDM), Metadata Management, and Data Governance.
• Event‑based architecture design, patterns (including pub‑sub and data streaming), modelling techniques, tools and standards.
• Public cloud technologies, cloud hosting, container and networking design patterns, tools and best practice (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Agile delivery methodologies and best practice.
• Dev Ops:
  Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) methodologies, tools and best practice.
• Shaping and supporting technology initiatives, projects, programmes and portfolios.

• Communicating and Influencing
• Leadership
• Working Together

• Communicating data – Practitioner
• Data governance (Data Architect) – Practitioner
• Data modelling – Practitioner
• Data standards (Data Architect) – Practitioner
• Metadata management – Practitioner
• Turning business problems into data design – Practitioner

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Engineering and Information Technology

Technology, Information and Internet

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