Data Architect (Fabric)

About Methods:

Methods is a £100M+ IT Services Consultancy who has partnered with a range of central government departments and agencies to transform the way the public sector operates in the UK. Established over 30 years ago and UK-based, we apply our skills in transformation, delivery, and collaboration from across the Methods Group, to create end-to-end business and technical solutions that are people-centred, safe, and designed for the future.

Our human touch sets us apart from other consultancies, system integrators and software houses - with people, technology, and data at the heart of who we are, we believe in creating value and sustainability through everything we do for our clients, staff, communities, and the planet.

We support our clients in the success of their projects while working collaboratively to share skill sets and solve problems. At Methods we have fun while working hard; we are not afraid of making mistakes and learning from them.

Predominantly focused on the public-sector, Methods is now building a significant private sector client portfolio.

Methods was acquired by the Alten Group in early 2022. Alten is a global engineering firm with approximately 57,000 employees specializing in engineering and IT services.

Description

Job title:             Principal Data Solution Architect

Team:                  Delivery  

Methods is recruiting for a Principal Data Solution Architect to join our team a permanent basis. 

This role will be mainly remote but require flexibility to travel to client sites, and our offices based in London, Sheffield.

What You'll Be Doing as a Principal Data Solution Architect: 

• Be the senior technical authority for the programme, responsible for defining technical direction, priorities, standards and decision-making.
• Be accountable for creating and maintaining the Data Transformation Programme roadmap and ensuring all workstreams align to the target architecture and business objectives.

• Chair or lead: Architecture reviews. Design authorities, Technical governance forums and Data platform standards reviews
• Advocate the business benefit of data standards, championing and governing those standards across projects and the organisation 

• Demonstrate an overall perspective on business issues and activities, determining patterns, standards, policies, roadmaps and vision statements 

• Make and guide effective decisions, explaining clearly how decisions have been reached and resolving technical disputes across varying levels of complexity and risk 

• Communicate effectively across organisational, technical and political boundaries, making complex technical information accessible for non-technical audiences 

• Design how to expose data from systems (APIs, real-time streams), link data from multiple systems, and deliver modern data services 

• Ensure that risks associated with deployment are adequately understood and documented 

• Design end-to-end data solutions from requirements through implementation, including technical documentation and architecture blueprints 

• Lead complex data migration projects from legacy systems to modern cloud-native platforms 

• Evaluate and recommend appropriate technologies across the modern data stack to meet specific client needs 

Your Impact: 

• Enable transformative business decisions through robust, scalable data architectures 

• Drive adoption of modern data platforms and AI-enabled analytics solutions 

• Establish technical standards and architectural patterns that ensure quality, security, and maintainability 

• Help cultivate a data-driven culture within client organisations and internally 

• Deliver architectures that seamlessly integrate traditional and modern data systems