Technical Data Architect

CompanyReward

LocationBelfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Posted At3/6/2026

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Description

🚀 We’re hiring: Technical Data Architect

What You’ll Be Doing

Data Architecture & Strategy

Define and own enterprise-wide data architecture aligned to business and technology goals
Design and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models across multiple domains
Establish scalable integration patterns, data flows, and canonical models

Platforms & Engineering

Architect and optimise modern data platforms across AWS, GCP, and hybrid cloud
Design real-time and batch data pipelines using modern data engineering frameworks
Evaluate emerging technologies to improve performance, scalability, and cost efficiency

Governance, Security & Compliance

Define and embed data governance frameworks, including lineage, metadata, and data quality
Ensure compliance with regulatory and industry standards (e.g. GDPR, HIPAA)
Implement best practices around encryption, key management, and platform security

Collaboration & Technical Leadership

Partner closely with engineering, analytics, product, and business teams

Provide technical leadership and architectural direction across initiatives

Mentor engineers and support design reviews to ensure architectural consistency

What You’ll Bring

A degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or similar
Strong experience designing enterprise-scale data architectures
Expertise in data modelling, database design, and optimisation
Hands-on experience with:
SQL & NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB, Bigtable)
ETL / ELT pipelines and data transformation optimisation
AWS (Kinesis, S3, Redshift) and GCP (Pub/Sub, BigQuery)
Streaming technologies (Kafka, Confluent, Spark, Flink)
Solid understanding of data governance tools and frameworks (Collibra, Apache Atlas)
Strong knowledge of security, encryption, and key management (AES-256, TLS, KMS, Vault)
Experience working in multi-cloud or hybrid environments, including cost optimisation
Excellent communication skills — able to explain complex architectures to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Relevant certifications (AWS, GCP) are highly desirable.

Why Join Us?

You’ll be part of a forward-thinking, supportive organisation where data architecture genuinely matters. You’ll have the opportunity to influence strategy, work with modern technologies, and support clients tackling meaningful, large-scale challenges.

The Benefits

25 days annual leave + bank holidays
Buy, sell, or bank holiday options (tenure dependent)
Hybrid working (3 days per week in the office)
Pension via Hargreaves Lansdown – up to 6% matched
Private healthcare (Bupa)
Income protection, life insurance & critical illness cover
Dental & optical cover
Active social calendar, team socials & company-wide events

If you enjoy turning strategy into robust data solutions and influencing architecture at scale, we’d love to hear from you.

👉 Apply now

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