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# Data Architect (Contract)

- **Company:** hedgehog lab
- **Location:** Edinburgh, UK
- **Contract:** Temporary to permanent
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Data Architecture, Oracle (Applications), Migration Manager, Data Streaming, Snowflake, Data Management
- **Published:** July 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=517d9ca5edb4ca85

## About the Role

* Strong track record architecting data platforms at scale, with Snowflake front and centre.
 * Deep experience with lakehouse and warehouse design and dimensional modelling.
 * Hands-on experience planning and running Oracle to Snowflake migrations.
 * Comfortable in a regulated environment where lineage and governance matter.
 * You design for teams that build with AI-assisted engineering, and you're comfortable using AI tooling in your own work.

Bonus points for dbt, AWS, and experience in financial services or asset finance.

## Description

We're hiring a Data Architect to shape the data platform for a large, established UK organisation going through a major transformation. It's a regulated, high-scale environment, and you'll own the target architecture for a move off Oracle onto Snowflake.

You'll set the direction other engineers build against.

What you'll do:

 * Design the target data architecture: lakehouse and warehouse patterns, modelling standards, and how data flows across the platform.
 * Own the migration strategy from Oracle to Snowflake, including sequencing, risk, and how legacy and new run side by side.
 * Set modelling conventions and governance the wider data team works to.
 * Work closely with engineering leads and stakeholders to keep the design grounded in what actually ships.


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