Principal Enterprise Architect

DSIT • Full-time • United Kingdom • £58.53k - £83.14k / year • 1d ago

Locations: Cardiff or Edinburgh

As Principal Enterprise Architect (Data), you’ll play a leading role in shaping how trusted company data is designed, governed and reused at national scale, supporting services accessed by millions of users every day.

This is a senior technical leadership role where your decisions will directly influence:

How data is treated as a core enterprise asset
How legacy and modern systems work together
How trust, interoperability and reuse are built into data by design

What you’ll be doing

As Principal Enterprise Architect (Data), you will:

Set the enterprise‑level direction for data architecture and strategy
Define and govern data models, standards and integration approaches
Design architectures that work across legacy systems, cloud platforms and third‑party services
Act as the authoritative voice on enterprise data, providing assurance and guidance across programmes and projects
Enable secure, trusted and reusable data across the organisation
Work closely with architects, delivery teams and senior stakeholders to reduce risk and improve data quality
Influence long‑term transformation while supporting immediate delivery needs

Your technical impact

You’ll lead work across:

Enterprise and domain data modelling
Canonical data definitions and integration patterns
Data governance, quality, ownership and lifecycle management
APIs, distributed services and interoperability
Secure handling of personal and sensitive data
Alignment with legal, regulatory and policy requirements

You’ll also provide specialist advice on:

Data migrations and legacy transformation
Platform and tooling decisions
Enterprise standards and architectural assurance

Who this role is for

This role would suit an experienced enterprise or senior data architect who:

Has worked in complex, large‑scale environments
Is confident setting direction and making architectural decisions
Can influence senior stakeholders and explain complexity clearly
Balances delivery needs with long‑term architectural vision

Experience with professional architecture qualifications and cloud data certifications is welcome.

Important information

Security Clearance (SC) is required
You must have lived in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years

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