Senior Data Architect

Data Architect - Initial 6 months Inside IR35 Contract

Henderson Drake has partnered with a leading Data Consultancy to appoint a Senior Data Architect to own the end-to-end technical architecture of the VWG DTO data ecosystem.

The role is accountable for delivering a modern, scalable, AI-ready, governance-aligned data platform, while driving platform maturity and a multi-layered re-platforming agenda.

Key Responsibilities

• End-to-end technical architecture across the full e2e stack.

• Engineering leadership across ingestion, transformation, BI, QA, DevOps.

• Re-platforming One Reporting’s analytical substrate to Redshift, enabling zero-copy data sharing, unified lineage and AI/LLM workloads.

• Re-platforming the ingestion and integration layer from Airbyte→Adverity to support harmonised vendor management, higher observability and stronger schema governance.

Required Skills & Experience

•Deep experience in cloud data architecture (AWS, Redshift, Glue, S3, Lambda,

Bedrock).

• Strong expertise in ingestion frameworks (Airbyte, Adverity), schema governance and pipeline orchestration.

• Hands-on understanding of BI, modelling, lineage, metadata and harmonisation.

• Experience leading large engineering teams.

• Strong understanding of data governance, taxonomy, ID hygiene and compliance.

• Excellent communication and client-facing leadership capability.

• Strong proficiency in SQL and analytical modelling for high-volume datasets.

• Hands-on experience with dbt / dbt Cloud for modular transformations and testing.

• Experience with pipeline orchestration tools such as Airflow.

• Proficiency in DevOps/DataOps practices, including CI/CD, Git, environment

automation and deployment strategies.

Details:

- Initial 6 month contract (Extensions highly likely)

- Inside IR35

- Fully remote

- Interviews happening this week