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# Lead Data Architect - 12-Month Contract - London(Hybrid) - Inside IR35

- **Company:** Hamilton Barnes
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £143,000.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Application Frameworks, Big Data, Data Architecture, Data Infrastructure, Data Transformation, Information Lifecycle Management, Interoperability, Domain Driven Design, Databricks
- **Published:** August 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerboard.com/pt/en/find-jobs-in-United-Kingdom/-B5D3E2448927313AC2/

## About the Role

* Strong experience leading enterprise data architecture and large-scale data transformation programmes
 * Deep understanding of Data Mesh, data products, domain-driven design, federated governance, and data-as-a-product principles
 * Experience defining enterprise, domain, conceptual, logical, and physical data architectures
 * Strong understanding of end-to-end data lifecycle management
 * Experience designing reusable data platform capabilities, engineering frameworks, and delivery accelerators
 * Ability to translate business strategy into pragmatic architecture and executable delivery plans
 * Experience leading POCs, technology evaluations, and executive-level presentations
 * Strong understanding of modern data platforms such as Databricks

## Description

We're recruiting for a Lead Data Architect to provide overall technology leadership for a data transformation programme for a leading financial services organisation, with accountability for data architecture, Data Mesh implementation, and end-to-end delivery of data products - working with client leadership, domain teams, architects, analysts, modellers, platform teams, and engineers to translate business priorities into scalable data products and reusable enterprise capabilities., * Define and govern the overall data architecture, Data Mesh implementation approach, and data product delivery principles for the programme

 * Act as overall programme technology lead, ensuring alignment across business priorities, domain architecture, data modelling, platform capabilities, engineering, governance, and consumption requirements
 * Work with client management to support strategy definition, delivery planning, implementation oversight, and architectural decision-making
 * Collaborate with domain consultants and business stakeholders to identify, define, decompose, and prioritise data products
 * Establish architecture standards and decision frameworks for data product boundaries, domain ownership, interoperability, sharing, discoverability, quality, security, and lifecycle management
 * Lead design of reusable frameworks, foundational capabilities, templates, and components accelerating the data product lifecycle


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