Data Architect

Role: Cloud Data Architect Location: Bristol, London / Hybrid (2 days a week on site, with travel to client sites as required) Role Type: Permanent / Full-Time Salary: Depends on experience Role Summary: As a Senior/Principal Consultant Cloud Data Architect, you will lead the design and implementation of secure, scalable and resilient cloud data platforms in highly regulated environments. You’ll guide architectural decision-making, advise stakeholders, and mentor engineers within Techmodal’s technical delivery teams. You will work collaboratively across the business and customer domains to deliver successful projects. You’ll be experienced with managing multiple conflicting responsibilities, working across multiple projects simultaneously. As a senior member of the Data Solutions Community within Tech modal, you will contribute to the development and implementation of the strategy to grow the community through new service offerings, skills development, and collaboration across Data Science, Software Development and Data Engineering specialisms. You will lead engagement into our broader business, identifying areas for collaboration, leadership and support, and bringing related workstreams together. You will also contribute to proposals and bids and support internal Technical Reviews of projects. You will be supporting the business’ technology strategy as well as enabling growth and awareness of Techmodal across Digital Intelligence and the broader Client Defence Systems. You are comfortable providing constructive feedback as well as having a can-do attitude and willingness to get stuck in to ensure we are successful. Key Responsibilities: Architect cloud-based data platforms and pipelines to enable our Data Engineering, Data Science and Data Exploitation teams to develop and build the solutions to deliver our client requirements. These solutions will need to integrate into the existing client infrastructure. (Azure, AWS, OCI, GCP, MOD Cloud or hybrid). Lead the design and development of cloud-based data systems (data warehouses, data lakes, streaming platforms, analytics pipelines) using appropriate cloud services and infrastructure. Lead client engagement activities to elicit technical requirements to enable solution design, architecture and infrastructure definition and lead delivery of cross skilled teams. Oversee internal and client project data architecture and data governance. Translate customer business needs and ambiguous problem statements into clear technical designs. Ensure solutions meet required Government security, governance and regulatory requirements. Lead customer workshops, solution design activities and stakeholder engagement. Lead Code Reviews, providing overview of best practice and ensure adherence to regulatory requirements. Provide architectural oversight throughout project delivery lifecycles. Mentor and develop junior and mid‑level team members. Contribute to thought leadership and development of our technical delivery community. Collaborating both within Techmodal and more broadly across Digital Intelligence and Systems to ensure alignment and growth of the Data Solutions community. Work with Business Development team to provide technical input into bids, including working with specialisms to develop machine learning, large language models and data analytic solutions. Essential Skills & Experience: You have significant domain experience building and delivering software and data capabilities, and are looking for a new challenge where you can help an ambitious business shape its delivery offerings and position itself as the go-to provider of secure data solutions in a fast, flexible and cost-effective manner. Experience architecting cloud data platforms in Defence, Government, Healthcare, Nuclear or other highly regulated sectors. Hands-on expertise implementing analytic, data science and software in various cloud and on-premises ecosystem. Many examples and stories of where things have been unsuccessful and you have had to adapt, develop a new approach to deliver the technical and project requirements and then apply lessons for your future design and architecture solutions. Strong understanding of UK Government secure data design principles, including Secure by Design. Awareness of relevant security & regulatory frameworks (NCSC, ISO 27001, NIST, GDPR). Ability to explain complex concepts to non‑technical audiences. Ability to influence diverse stakeholders including senior leadership. Collaborative and inclusive mindset. Experience with developing people and sharing knowledge and expertise as well as developing training and frameworks to facilitate team development and upskilling.