Data Architect (with Data Science Expertise)

Data Architect (with Data Science Expertise)

Location: UK-Based, Leeds (Hybrid) | Full-time position | Published: 08/09/2025

Are you passionate about driving complex data management and analytics projects to successful completion in the sustainable water and energy management sectors? BMA is looking for talented individuals to join our team!

Company Overview

BMA is a rapidly scaling UK-based technology company serving the water, waste and energy infrastructure sectors. Our Decision Intelligence software platform, Decisio™, helps Clients to make more holistic, rapid, and ultimately better decisions as they grapple with challenges such as climate change, sustainability and decarbonisation. Founded in 2013, our vision is to develop technology that leverages advances in Advanced Analytics, Data Science, and generative AI, with the increasingly accessible processing power enabled through the cloud. 

Overview of the vacancy

·        Permanent full-time contract, Monday to Friday.

·        Position to commence on the mutually agreed date.

·        Hybrid role, based at BMA's offices in Leeds or London, UK.

·        Competitive holiday entitlement in addition to UK bank holidays.

Job Description

We’re seeking a forward-thinking Data Architect who not only designs scalable data infrastructure but also understands how to extract meaningful insights from it. This hybrid role is perfect for someone who thrives at the intersection of engineering precision and analytical curiosity.

You’ll play a key role in shaping our data ecosystem—ensuring it’s robust, secure, and optimised to support existing and new functionality within Decisio™. With your data science skills you will help guide architectural decisions that maximise the insight and value Decisio™ delivers to our infrastructure clients.

Your role will be pivotal in ensuring the data architecture meets performance, security, and compliance requirements, while enabling advanced analytics and decision-making capabilities. As you develop deep expertise in wastewater systems data, you will have the opportunity to expand your remit to architect and support data solutions across other cloud environments within BMA.

Key responsibilities

The role will require you to be part of a rapidly growing company that has a wide-ranging customer base spread across numerous industry verticals in the water, wastewater & energy sectors.

• Design and maintain scalable, secure, and high-performance data architectures across cloud environments.
• Collaborate with data scientists and analysts to ensure infrastructure supports modelling, experimentation, and analytics workflows.
• Develop and optimize data pipelines (ETL/ELT) for structured and unstructured data.
• Implement data governance, quality, and security best practices.
• Evaluate and integrate new technologies to enhance data capabilities.
• Translate business requirements into technical specifications and architecture blueprints.
• Support model deployment, version control and monitoring in production environments.
• Mentor junior data engineers and contribute to architectural standards.
• Leverage AI to transform our approach to data architecture and analytics.
• Understand data requirements, business priorities, and regulatory constraints to lead on the design of cloud infrastructure and technology selection to ensure scalability, performance, and cost-effectiveness.
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve data architecture and implement innovative solutions that enhance system performance and user experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or related field.
• Certifications in cloud architecture or data engineering (ideally Microsoft Certified Azure certifications).

Essential Skills & Experience

·        5+ years in data architecture, engineering, or related roles.

·        Strong proficiency in SQL, Python, and cloud platforms (e.g. Azure).

·        Proven experience in managing solutions deployment through DevOps. GitHub or similar tools.

·        Solid understanding of data modelling, normalisation, and schema design.

·        Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

 Extremely Advantageous

·        Experience sourcing and consolidating data from internal and external systems, including APIs and third-party platforms.

·        Ability to ensure compatibility and reliability of incoming data streams.

·        Track record in evaluating and integrating external tools such as data warehouses, analytics platforms, and machine learning services.

·        Experience building connectors/pipelines for system interoperability between in-house & third-party systems.

·        Skilled in cleaning, transforming, and preparing data for analysis, considering external formats and quality.

·        Ability to maintain scalable workflows that efficiently incorporate third-party components.

·        Immediate / near-term availability to join the team.

·        Experience working within the water sector with one or more of the large water companies and as such a connected network with other Water sector Data Architects.

·        Demonstrated ability to span the divide between semi-technical client personnel and very technical resources, particularly to help ‘unblock’ delays in data collection from clients.

·        A proven track record and keen interest in identifying business insights from Data.

Join our team at BMA and contribute to shaping the future of sustainable water and energy management! To apply, please submit your resume to [email protected]