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We're a friendly and collaborative team, passionate about what we do and committed to doing it well.\nWe’re looking for an Enterprise Data Architect to join us at our Huddersfield office on a permanent basis. You will Act as the enterprise data architect and contribute to the enterprise architecture vision and strategy, to accelerate and/or enable business growth. Design and maintain reliable, scalable, and accessible data architectures that meets evolving business objectives. Ensure data services, products, and solutions are aligned to both architecture and engineering standards, supporting operational, strategic, and tactical needs. Ensures that data models, data flows, and technical designs meet both operational and analytical needs while aligning with global architecture standards and best practices.\nKNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED\nExtensive experience in enterprise data architectures, data modelling methods and technologies, and solution design within complex organisations. Ability to optimise data architectures for performance, scalability, reusability, and long-term sustainability.\nBe a systems thinker, delivering transformative change, with a growth mindset and value creation as your core - always, embracing experimentation.\nProven ability to align technical solutions with business strategy, enterprise architecture, and engineering standards - ensuring strong data governance foundations are built/adhered to.\nMaterial expertise in data modelling techniques (conceptual, logical, and physical) and relevant toolsets (e.g., ER/Studio, Erwin, dbt, SQLmodelling frameworks)\nComplementary experience in enterprise application, integration, and technology architectures with material experience in business architecture.\nStrong knowledge of enterprise data platforms, public cloud services (e.g., Amazon Web Services, Databricks, Microsoft Azure, ServiceNow), and application, data, process, service, and system integration toolsets.\nExperience supporting Master Data Management, Data Governance, and Analytics initiatives.\nExperience of understanding the value of non-functional requirements and how they can be incorporated into a compelling architecture.\nAwareness of, and preferably practitioner of, CIS, DAMA, INCOSE, ITIL, and/or TOGAF.\nAbility to evaluate and recommend emerging technologies and alternative approaches.\nStrong expertise and experience in multi-modal delivery methods.\nKEY RESULT AREAS\nAlignment of data services, products and solution designs with the enterprise architecture mission, vision, and strategy. Engaging with business stakeholders to understand data requirements and translate them into effective architectures.\nDevelopment and maintenance of the enterprise data architecture, ensuring it is resilient, scalable, and meets current and future business requirements.\nEstablish and maintain architecture standards, best practices, and documentation. Creating artefacts appropriate for different technical and business audiences.\nProviding thought leadership on how, where, and when, to consolidate services and systems, by exploiting existing capabilities. Contributes to a modern, fit-for-purpose data estate that adopts democratization, self-service, and enables advanced analytics\nWorking closely with application, connectivity, integration, platform, and security engineering teams to simplify and automate the landscape, ensuring reliability, scalability, and accessibility.\nWorking closely with data engineering to simplify and streamline data flows and pipelines, across the organisation, within Group and extending into our Supply Chain, ensuring reliability, timeliness, quality, and accessibility.\nSupporting data engineering in designing and implementing data models that underpin master data management (MDM), analytics, and reporting.\nEnsure data models and architecture support data governance and data quality.\nEstablish and maintain data modelling standards, best practices, and documentation - create high-quality conceptual, logical, and physical data models, and produce key models as required\nLeading iterative reviews of data architectures and models, continuously refining processes based on feedback from users, performance metrics, and business dynamics\nIdentifying and exploiting common patterns, synergies and similarities to promote re-usability and the future proofing of data services, products, and solutions\nAssessment of emerging data products, platforms, and services; providing objective evaluations and recommendations, including pros and cons of different approaches.\nMonitoring emerging trends and technologies in data architecture and modelling, advising on their potential adoption and business value.\nWhat’s in it for you?\nCompetitive Base salary\nHybrid Working - 4 days at our Coventry office and 1-day WFH.\nDiscretionary bonus \nRetirement savings plan \nLife assurance \nEnhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave for anyone expecting or adopting a child \nA wide range of voluntary benefits including holiday buying, discounted gym membership, car salary sacrifice scheme, Cycle2Work, Benenden Healthcare and more. \nAccess to a wealth of health and wellbeing services including access to online GP appointments and mental health support. \nWorkPerks - A platform home to hundreds of all your favourite high street and online discounts via the provider Reward Gateway.\nWhy Choose Us?\nQuality - We’re unwavering in our commitment to providing outstanding products and service that exceed our customers’ expectations.\nSupportive Environment - Join a culture that prioritises your growth, with the resources and support you need to excel. We listen and learn - we know we haven’t always got all the answers - listening and learning with you is what helps provide the best service to our customers.\nProfessional Development - We are invested in your success! Can we add this instead? You have a real chance to progress- the only limits are your own Explore our apprenticeships, training, and mentoring programs designed to elevate your career.\nGreat Benefits - Enjoy a compelling package that includes a competitive salary, bonuses, pension schemes, and life assurance, among many other perks!\nWork-Life Balance - We value your well-being and offer flexible working hours and a hybrid working model to help you find your ideal rhythm\nWhat's Next\nIf your application is successful, our Talent team will reach out to arrange an interview and answer any questions you may have. 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