Contract Data Architect/Analyst

Data Architect/Analyst - 6 month initial contract role. £500-£580 per day.

Who We Are:

AND Digital are a tech company focused on accelerating digital delivery and dedicated to closing the digital skills gap. We've been helping organisations build better digital products and stronger digital teams since 2014.

We believe our work should always leave a legacy for the client. We do this through close relationships with our offices (or 'Clubs') so that our partners are always prioritised by a regional team close to them.

This unique model has driven success for our clients and ourselves, evidenced by our remarkable organic growth since 2014. Today we number more than 1,300 people with Clubs all over the UK and Europe with plans for global expansion in the next couple of years.

Join us - and help us fulfil our mission to close the world's digital skills gap.

Key Skills:

• Architectural Comprehension & Alignment: Proactively understand data architectural designs for data services, applications, and persistence layers, ensuring all data models and schemas align with the overall architectural vision, technology choices, and data flow principles.
• Design Influence & Feedback: Participate in design reviews to provide data modelling expertise and constructive feedback on proposed new services or application architecture, highlighting potential data impacts on scalability, performance, and integrity.
• Model Creation & Maintenance: Develop and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models using industry-standard tools (e.g., ERwin, PowerDesigner), covering relational and NoSQL modelling techniques.
• Requirements Translation: Work closely with stakeholders to understand business processes and translate them into efficient data structures and database designs.
• Data Landscape Documentation: Contribute to the overall documentation of the enterprise data landscape, mapping how data flows between different applications and services as defined by the underlying architecture.
• Data Service Support: Contribute to the design of data persistence layers and define data schemas for API documentation (e.g., OpenAPI specifications).
• Pipeline Code Integrity: Experience using SOLID principles when designing and reviewing code for data transformation pipelines and code-based data models ensuring high code quality, testability, and maintainability.
• Performance & Optimisation: Evaluate and optimise model designs for performance, scalability, and storage efficiency, including indexing, partitioning, and denormalization strategies, always considering the target architecture (e.g., cloud platform or service fabric) in your choices.
• Technology Adaptation: Model data structures across various environments including relational databases, NoSQL stores, and cloud-based data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks).

Experience:

• Proven experience in data modelling, architecture, or database design
• Proficiency with modelling tools such as ERwin, PowerDesigner, or similar
• Strong understanding of relational and NoSQL data structures
• Familiarity with data governance frameworks and metadata management
• Experience working with cloud data platforms and modern data ecosystems
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills

Desirable Skills:

• Experience with API schema design and OpenAPI specifications
• Working knowledge of software development principles (e.g., SOLID, DRY) as applied to data pipeline code and modelling tools

Why join AND Digital?

We have three values: wonder, share, and delight. These values inform how we work with clients, and our culture: what it feels like to work for AND. We believe collaboration, ambition, curiosity and fun can drive innovation by creating a better environment for problem-solving.

By joining AND, we'll provide:

Opportunities to work on projects with big clients and the chance to produce meaningful work that makes a difference to people's lives.

A "Blended Working" model, meaning you will be able to work in a range of locations from; your home, in your clubhouse, on a client, as well as just a change of scenery.

A dedicated career scrum team, designed to help you reach your career goals and develop the skills you need to be your best self.

A safe environment for you to be yourself and challenge yourself.

Equal Opportunities:

At AND Digital we embrace diversity and are committed to equal opportunities. We are actively recruiting for a diverse and inclusive workforce so want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application.
We want you to feel safe and empowered to let us know if you require any adjustments to be made to your application or interview process so please speak to our recruitment team.