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# Lead Enterprise Architect

- **Company:** DWP Digital
- **Location:** Sheffield, United Kingdom (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £76,339 - £100,886
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Databases, Couchbase Servers, Data Transmissions, Data Infrastructure, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Relational Databases, Database Schema, Shard (Database Architecture), Information Lifecycle Management, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, MySQL, NoSQL, Oracle (Applications), Talend, Informatica Powercenter, Indexer, Cassandra, AWS Glue, Apache Nifi
- **Published:** November 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.jobs.service.gov.uk/jobs/6af1ebcbd90dd1b95e90c2c5/apply

## About the Role

* Experience of developing reference architectures including architectural principals, patterns, standards and guidance and communicating this to an audience of peers.

 * Using architecture design and modelling techniques, patterns, tools and standards to clearly communicate concrete architectures and reference patterns.

 * Experience of data modelling, database schema design, normalization, indexing, partitioning, sharding, replication, data quality assessment and data lifecycle management.

 * Experience of selecting and using database technologies, including relational databases (e.g., Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL), NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, DocumentDB, Cassandra, Couchbase) and other database type (Graph, Ledger, Vector).

 * Experience of different data transfer and transformation Extract, Transform, Load (ETL, ELT) tools and processes (e.g., AWS Glue, Informatica, Talend, Apache NiFi) in modern data platforms.