{"id":1524983,"url":"https://alion.io/job/flooid-data-architect","title":"Data Architect","company":{"id":1998349,"name":"Flooid","domain":"flooid.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/flooid","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workable","truth_index":null},"role":"Data Science","role_family":"Data Science","seniority":"staff","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Birmingham, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":null,"max":80000,"currency":"GBP","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":105834},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Db2","optional":false},{"name":"MySQL","optional":false},{"name":"Oracle","optional":false},{"name":"PostgreSQL","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false},{"name":"Java","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-28T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-28","last_verified_at":"2026-10-01T03:03:01Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":3,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":3},"description":"The Role\nAs a Data Architect at Flooid, you will support customer projects by translating business and solution requirements into practical data designs, database changes and implementation approaches for our retail technology platform.\nWorking as part of customer project and engineering teams, you will collaborate with project managers, solution specialists, engineers and other stakeholders to clarify requirements, shape solutions and deliver agreed technical outcomes. You will provide data-related expertise throughout design, build, testing, deployment and early-life support, using established standards and patterns.\nThe role contributes across the customer project lifecycle, including discovery, estimation, solution design, implementation, testing, deployment and resolution of delivery issues.\nThis role combines customer-focused project delivery, database design, technical analysis and problem solving in a collaborative engineering environment.\nThe Responsibilities\nAs a member of the Data Management Team, you will deliver data-related work for customer projects and support agreed team priorities, including:\nCustomer Solution Design\nWork with customer and internal stakeholders to clarify business, integration and data requirements for assigned projects.\nTranslate agreed requirements into practical database, interface and data-processing designs using established Flooid patterns.\nIdentify design dependencies, constraints and delivery risks, and raise them with the project team.\nProduce clear solution documentation that supports build, testing, deployment and ongoing support.\nCustomer Project Delivery\nDeliver assigned data and database work packages to agreed scope, quality and project timelines.\nProvide technical input during project discovery, planning, estimation and design reviews.\nSupport configuration, development, testing, deployment and handover activities for customer solutions.\nInvestigate and resolve project issues, communicate progress clearly and escalate risks or blockers promptly.\nProject and Technical Collaboration\nWork closely with project managers, business analysts, solution specialists, engineers and testers to coordinate delivery.\nExplain technical options, assumptions and impacts clearly to technical and non-technical project stakeholders.\nContribute evidence-based estimates, status updates and delivery information for assigned work.\nWork with engineers and technical leads to implement agreed customer solutions using appropriate data technologies.\nData Performance and Optimization\nSupport assigned database changes intended to improve performance or reliability.\nAssist with investigation of database performance issues.\nSuggest improvements to data processing efficiency within assigned areas.\nData Quality and Standards\nUpdate database schemas, data definitions and documentation for assigned work as directed.\nFollow agreed data standards and design guidance.\nSupport quality and maintainability of assigned data deliverables.\nPlatform Development\nSupport minor improvements to database tooling and automation within agreed team priorities.\nReview and provide feedback on specific technologies when requested.\nAssist with limited improvements to data-related processes and tools.\nTechnical Knowledge\nApply technical knowledge of SQL, XML/XSD, relational databases and data modeling.\nShare practical knowledge with colleagues within day-to-day work.\nAssist with problem-solving for assigned data-related issues.\nRequirements\nExperience delivering technical work within customer implementation or software delivery projects.\nExperience working with relational database platforms such as DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL or MySQL.\nGood hands-on experience in SQL and PL/SQL.\nExperience working with XML and XSD technologies.\nExperience interpreting documented customer requirements and contributing to technical solution design.\nExperience supporting project testing, deployment, issue resolution or production handover.\nExperience contributing to database development, integration or configuration tasks within software delivery environments.\nAbility to organize assigned work, meet project commitments and communicate risks or blockers early.\nGood analytical and problem-solving skills.\nAbility to communicate technical information clearly to customers, colleagues and project stakeholders.\nDesirable Skills and Experience:\nExperience with XSLT and related XML transformation approaches.\nAwareness of software development practices, including collaborative working and maintainable code.\nExperience working within Java-based application environments.\nExposure to retail or commerce technology environments.\nAbout You\nYou enjoy applying technical knowledge to real customer challenges and contributing to successful project delivery.\nYou are comfortable working with detailed technical information and working with documented solution requirements. You collaborate well with others and support assigned tasks that contribute to practical, high-quality technical outputs.\nYou will demonstrate:\nGood analytical and problem-solving capability. \nThe ability to communicate technical information clearly. \nGood collaboration skills. \nA focus on delivering practical technical solutions. \nMaintain and develop relevant technical knowledge. \nUnderstand how assigned work supports customer needs. \nBenefits\nAt Flooid you will find a fun, professional and supportive environment where people genuinely care about the work they do and the customers they serve.\nWe value contribution over job titles, encourage openness and collaboration, move quickly, and believe in rolling up our sleeves to get great things done.\nLocation: Hybrid. UK based. You should be able to work from the Birmingham office weekly.\nHours: Full time, Monday to Friday.\nSalary: Up to £80,000 dependant on experience\nFlexible working - To help you manage your personal responsibilities and interests, we offer a range of flexi-working options, including hybrid working, as well as balancing your work responsibilities with other priorities, like picking up your children, caring for an aging parent or attending important events.\nHolidays - We operate a flexible holiday allowance scheme, we recommend employees take around 25-30 days holiday plus public bank holidays per year.\nA flexible pension - We help you prepare for the future with a salary sacrifice pension and annual personal pension reviews with our external partner\nCompany sick pay - We offer peace of mind when you are ill with an enhanced Company Sick Pay policy\nFamily benefits - We offer a range of support and benefits including enhanced maternity, adoption and paternity pay, enhanced paternity leave and shared parental leave\nElectric Car salary sacrifice scheme - An easy to manage and affordable way of leasing a zero-emission electric vehicle\nOnline learning platform -We offer full access to Udemy for all employees, which offers a variety of technical, business and personal development e-learning courses.\nFinancial, physical and wellbeing support - To help keep you at your best we provide our team with a health cash plan and if the worst should happen, we have a life assurance scheme\nAccess to a discount platform - Treat yourself with discounts and rewards from hundreds of leading retailers, restaurants, and destinations\nProfessional subscriptions - We offer reimbursement for professional subscriptions to a relevant institution if it’s required to perform your job role\nCharity giving - support a charity of your choice by gifting money directly from your payroll, saving the national insurance contributions you need to pay\nCycle to work scheme - Make the most of this tax efficient scheme to improve your commute to work\n Rewarding long service - We provide gifts to our employees who achieve milestone years of service working as part of our team\nIf you believe you have the skills and experience to carry out this role, although feel you do not meet 100% of the criteria, we encourage you to apply anyway! Research suggests that certain groups of the population will apply for a role if they meet 60% of a roles requirements, while others will only apply if they hit 100% - we encourage applications from anyone with the skills, experience and attributes that will make you a great addition to both the role they are applying and the company overall.\nFlooid Ltd. is an Equal Opportunities employer. 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