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Senior Data Architect

Edinburgh, UK
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Senior Data Architect

Aberdeen
Edinburgh, UK
Any
Aberdeen
Actively hiring

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You’ll join our Corporate Technology Office, which underpins Aberdeen’s success by delivering modern, efficient, and innovative technology solutions. This team supports Corporate Functions—Finance, HR, Risk, Legal, Audit & Sustainability—helping them achieve strategic goals.

 

About the Role


As a Senior Data Architect, you’ll play a key role in evolving our data technology landscape. You’ll design and oversee strategic data solutions that deliver cost-efficiency, modernisation, and innovation at pace, ensuring data is structured to support business goals and enable efficient analysis and decision-making.

 

Key Responsibilities

 

  • Understand Corporate Functions and their contribution to Aberdeen’s goals.

  • Own and evolve the Data Product strategy for Corporate Technology, creating reusable data products for wider business use.

  • Collaborate with Data Enablement and Data Platform teams to align principles and patterns.

  • Design data integration solutions for cohesive use of internal and external systems.

  • Create conceptual and logical data models; work with analysts and engineers to implement physical solutions.

  • Architect solutions across disparate technologies to meet complex requirements.

  • Communicate technical concepts clearly to varied stakeholders; challenge and build consensus.

  • Perform technology and data impact assessments, including risk and cost estimation.

  • Deliver design artefacts aligned with best practices and governance requirements.

  • Guide delivery and operation of solutions to balance risk and deliver agreed value.

 

About the Candidate

 

  • Architecture Certification (TOGAF or BCS) desirable.

  • Strong understanding of cloud-based data platforms (Azure, Fabric, Snowflake) and supporting technologies (ETL, dbt, APIs, Azure Data Pipelines, Purview, IAM tools).

  • Proven experience in data architecture approaches (Data Vault, Data Lake medallion, Data Mart/Warehouse, Lakehouse).

  • Ability to work autonomously and drive results.

  • Experience in Financial Services or other highly regulated industries.

 

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