Enterprise Data Architect

Company: Venesky Brown
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Job Description:

Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Dumfries, is currently looking to recruit a Data Architect (Part-time) working 3 days per week, for an initial 3 month contract on a rate of £750/day (Outside IR35). This role will be 2 days from home & 1 day in Dumfries.

Responsibilities:

– Maintain appropriate technical documentation and decision records to provide organisational memory and support future development.

– Provide clear progress, risk and decision reporting to senior DDaT leadership and relevant governance groups.

– Work alongside the Data & Analytics Manager to establish delivery plans, allocating activities appropriately while maintaining clear accountability and professional boundaries.

– Coach and mentor existing staff, transferring knowledge and developing internal capability in modern data architecture, engineering, governance and analytics.

– Act as a senior subject-matter expert, providing authoritative advice to DDaT leadership, operational teams, programmes and senior stakeholders.

Essential Skills:

– Significant senior-level experience of developing and implementing enterprise data strategies and roadmaps within a large, complex organisation.

– Demonstrable experience of designing or implementing modern cloud data platforms/data warehouses/lakehouse architectures.

– Practical experience of Snowflake or comparable enterprise cloud data platforms, including understanding of data ingestion, transformation, modelling, governance and analytics architectures.

– Demonstrable experience of taking an organisation from fragmented/siloed data towards an enterprise data architecture.

– Strong knowledge of data architecture, data engineering, interoperability, data governance, metadata, lineage and data-quality management.

– Significant experience of managing specialist technology/data suppliers and acting as an intelligent client.

– Strong understanding of information governance, security, privacy and the implications of using sensitive data.

– Ability to communicate complex data and architectural concepts to executives, clinicians, operational leaders and non-technical stakeholders.

If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.

Posted: August 20th, 2026