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# Lead Data Architect

- **Company:** Hexwired Recruitment
- **Location:** Farnborough, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Cloud Computing, Data Architecture, Data Governance, Data Infrastructure, Data Integration, Interoperability, Metadata, Data Processing, Event Driven Architecture, Microsoft Fabric
- **Published:** September 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://itjobpro.co.uk/job/lead-data-architect

## About the Role

* Strong background in Data Architecture or Data Platform Engineering
 * Experience owning architecture across complex enterprise programmes
 * Knowledge of cloud, on-prem and hybrid infrastructure environments
 * Experience with data governance, metadata, lineage and lifecycle management
 * Understanding of scalable integration patterns, APIs and event-driven architectures
 * Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams
 * Strong stakeholder communication and technical leadership skills
 * Experience working within secure, regulated or mission-critical environments is highly desirable

The company are able to offer hybrid working, excellent long-term progression opportunities and the chance to work on highly innovative projects at the forefront of data and AI capability.

## Description

As Lead Data Architect, you will be responsible for defining and evolving the overall data architecture roadmap, ensuring strong governance, interoperability and scalable deployment across secure customer environments. You will work closely with multidisciplinary engineering teams, guiding technical direction whilst remaining close to delivery and implementation., * Own and evolve the end-to-end Data Fabric architecture

 * Define architecture roadmaps, standards, governance and best practices
 * Lead data integration and interoperability strategies across multiple environments
 * Design scalable data processing, storage, metadata and governance solutions
 * Establish architecture patterns and technical guardrails for engineering teams
 * Lead architectural assurance and governance activities
 * Support secure deployments across cloud, hybrid and on-prem environments
 * Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across projects


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