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# Data Architect

- **Company:** FBI &TMT
- **Location:** Farnborough, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Architecture, Data Governance, Data Infrastructure, Data Integration, Data Sharing, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Metadata, Microsoft Fabric
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/data-architect/fbi-tmt-job107934530

## About the Role

* Extensive experience in data architecture and/or data platform engineering with significant ownership of architecture on complex programmes
 * Demonstrable track record of evolving an established architecture through strategic roadmaps, standards, patterns, and governance
 * Proficient knowledge of on-premises, cloud, and hybrid platforms with a deep understanding of data governance, metadata, lineage, data quality, stewardship, and lifecycle management
 * Experience designing and governing architectures for constrained or mission-critical environments, including edge deployments and contested connectivity patterns
 * Experience leading engineering teams, providing clear technical direction and mentoring in multidisciplinary environments
 * ability to explain intricate architectural concepts to senior stakeholders with excellent written and verbal communication skills

## Description

* Leading the Data Fabric architecture end-to-end: including integration, processing, storage, metadata/lineage, governance and consumption patterns
 * Establishing and maintaining the architecture roadmap, encompassing technology evolution, capability increments and deployment waves across environments
 * Directing architecture for data integration and interoperability, implementing strategies for connectors, data sharing patterns and cross-domain data exchange approaches
 * Translating high-level architectural intent into reference architectures, patterns, and guardrails to ensure repeatable delivery by the engineering team
 * Running architecture governance and assurance, leading comprehensive data modelling across conceptual, logical, and physical levels
 * Providing hands-on leadership to a team of Data Fabric Engineers and Data Analysts, ensuring the platform's security, scalability, resilience, and operability as it evolves
 * Staying tuned to engineering practices to ensure designs are buildable, testable, and supportable
 * Communicating complex architectural concepts to senior stakeholders proficiently


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