At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and implement innovative data architectures that drive effective information management.
- Company: Join Ofgem, a leader in energy regulation with a commitment to sustainability.
- Benefits: Enjoy 30 days annual leave, flexible hours, and a generous pension scheme.
- Other info: Hybrid working model and excellent training opportunities for career growth.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on the future of energy while developing your skills in a supportive environment.
- Qualifications: Experience in enterprise-scale data architecture and strong collaboration skills required.
The predicted salary is between 70000 - 90000 £ per year.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design of conceptual, logical and physical data models, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles and business needs.
- Define and promote data standards, frameworks and best practices to ensure consistency, quality and compliance across data initiatives.
- Design data integration patterns that enable effective sharing, reuse and interoperability of data across systems and services.
- Ensure that data solutions meet security, privacy and quality requirements throughout the full data lifecycle.
- Provide technical assurance for data solutions, ensuring alignment with governance, regulatory and architectural standards.
- Collaborate with data architects, engineers, analysts and wider stakeholders to deliver effective and scalable data solutions.
- Support the development of Ofgem's data governance approach, including metadata management and master data practices.
- Drive continuous improvement in data architecture, contributing to the development of standards, tools and ways of working across DDSS.
- Create and maintain architectural artefacts and documentation to support organisation-wide understanding and reuse.
Qualifications
To succeed in this role you will have a strong track record of designing and delivering enterprise‑scale data architectures and models.
You will possess a deep understanding of data management and governance principles, and the ability to apply these to complex organisational environments.
You will bring strong expertise in data modelling – conceptual, logical and physical – and be confident working with architectural frameworks and tools such as Archi Mate, UML or equivalents.
Experience designing data solutions across cloud or hybrid environments will support your success.
You will collaborate effectively with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders, translating business needs into robust data designs and ensuring that solutions deliver tangible value.
You will demonstrate a strong understanding of data standards, integration patterns and governance frameworks, with the ability to drive best practice and ensure compliance across data initiatives.
Relevant certifications such as BCS Enterprise Architecture or Azure Solution Architect will further strengthen your application.
In addition, you will be proactive, forward‑thinking and committed to continuous improvement, contributing to the development of Ofgem’s data architecture capability and wider data community.
- Key Experience
- Demonstrable experience in designing and implementing enterprise‑scale data architectures, solutions and models that enable effective information management and analytics (Lead Criteria).
- Strong understanding of data management and governance principles to ensure consistency, quality and compliance across data ecosystems (Lead Criteria).
- Collaborates effectively across technical and business teams, ensuring data architecture aligns with organisational strategy and stakeholder needs.
- Proficiency in architectural modelling tools such as Archi and frameworks, such as Archi Mate, UML or equivalent, with the ability to create and maintain architectural artefacts.
- Holds or can obtain the following certifications within 6 months: Formal Architectural Qualification such as BCS EA Certification, or an equivalent Cloud Architecture Certification (Microsoft Azure Solution Architect).
- Desirable: experience delivering enterprise data architectures across hybrid or multi‑cloud environments, ensuring interoperability and performance.
- Behaviours
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Making Effective Decisions
- Communicating and Influencing
- Technical Skills
Technical skills will be assessed during the selection process.
Benefits
- 30 days annual leave after 2 years
- Excellent training and development opportunities
- The opportunity to join the generous Civil Service pension, which includes a range of benefits
- Hybrid working (currently 1 day a week in the office but under review)
- Flexible working hours and family‑friendly policies
- Clean and bright offices based centrally, engaged networks and teams
- Opportunity to contribute to establishing a Net Zero energy system by 2050
- Salary and Pension
Alongside your salary of £49,452, OFGEM contributes £14,326 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
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