An established IT services company is seeking an experienced Data Architect to support a major telecommunications client on a data strategy and discovery engagement.
This role is 100% onsite in Reading, 5 days per week. Immediate starters only.
The successful candidate will assess a complex enterprise data landscape across Customer, Finance and Network domains, helping define the target-state data architecture, technology roadmap and governance framework.
This is a highly client-facing role, requiring someone who can operate confidently across architecture, data analysis and stakeholder engagement, alongside strong hands-on data platform and engineering knowledge.
Key responsibilities:
- Lead stakeholder interviews and workshops across business and technology teams
- Assess the current data landscape, architecture, platforms, integrations and processing methodologies
- Catalogue databases, technology stacks and data sources across complex enterprise environments
- Map data movement across systems, including ETL/ELT, APIs, CDC and manual processes
- Identify data silos, duplication, data quality issues and architectural gaps
- Assess data governance, ownership, metadata, lineage, security and compliance maturity
- Develop a high-level target-state data architecture and technology roadmap
- Support the development of data governance frameworks and target operating models
- Contribute to data ontology design for AI and analytics use cases
- Produce architecture diagrams, inventories, assessments and roadmap documentation
- Work directly with senior client stakeholders to drive alignment and sign-off
- Use Python and LLMs to build tools and processes supporting data and architecture analysis
Key experience required:
- Strong Data Architecture / Data Strategy background
- Hands-on experience with GCP and BigQuery, ideally within a Data Lakehouse environment
- Strong understanding of data modelling across conceptual, logical and physical levels
- Experience with ETL/ELT, data integration, APIs and CDC
- Strong understanding of data governance, metadata, lineage, MDM and data quality
- Experience assessing complex enterprise data estates and defining target-state architectures
- Strong Python skills, with experience using Python and LLMs/AI
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills
- Previous client-facing consulting/advisory experience at Data Architect, Data Analyst, DBA or similar level
- Experience within telecommunications or similarly complex enterprise environments
- GCP technologies including Dataflow, Data Fusion, Dataplex, Vertex AI or Cloud Composer
- AI/ML data enablement and data ontology design
- Telecom OSS/BSS and network data experience
- Hybrid cloud and legacy data platform migration experience
- GDPR and data compliance knowledge
- DAMA-DMBOK or DCAM exposure
- Previous data strategy or discovery consulting engagements
- 3-month initial contract
- Immediate start
- 100% onsite in Reading
- Immediate starters only
- 2-stage interview process: 1 internal + 1 client
Candidates with 10–15+ years of data architecture/engineering experience, strong GCP/BigQuery expertise and proven client-facing data strategy experience are particularly encouraged to apply.
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