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Hays

Data Architect

Hybrid

London, United kingdom

£ 675 /day

Freelance

29-12-2025

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Job Specifications

Data Architect

Duration: 6 month rolling contract

Day rate: Up to £675 per day PAYE

Location: Stratford, London

Your recruitment contact is Sartaj via Sartaj.Deol@hays.com.

About the organisation

Our client is an independent regulatory body in the UK responsible for ensuring the financial markets work well for the consumers and the economy, promoting market integrity and effective competition.

Role Responsibilities:

Leading the data design of solutions for large projects and programs to translate high-level business requirements into data models and appropriate metadata, test data and data quality standards
Communicating, improving and implementing key principles, methods and models that describe the enterprise’s future state in relation to data
Contributing to the enterprise data framework, maintaining expertise in industry innovation to improve maturity of the organisation’s approach to data architecture
Leading contributions to the relevant communities of practice, providing thought leadership, coaching and mentoring of other employees to build the overall business, technical and Data Architecture capability within Strategy & Architecture

Skills:

Minimum:

Prior experience of conceptual, logical and physical data modelling in a complex environment
Proven experience in data modelling (3NF, Snowflake, DV2, star)
Demonstratable experience in data modelling and architecture defining standards, best practices and architecture guidelines

Essential:

Strong communication skills, both written and oral
Ability to effectively managing senior stakeholder relationships
Ability to create data dictionaries and taxonomies, developing best practices and governance for dictionary maintenance
An understanding of the financial regulation domain

Disability Confident: our hiring approach

We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, and therefore, people or individuals with disabilities and long-term conditions who best meet the minimum criteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment process. In cases of high application volumes, we may progress applicants whose experience most closely matches the role’s key requirements.

What are the next steps?

If you are interested in the role, click the apply button and we will get in touch with you to discuss next steps.

About the Company

We are leaders in specialist recruitment and workforce solutions, offering advisory services such as learning and skill development, career transitions and employer brand positioning. As the Leadership Partner to our customers, we invest in lifelong partnerships that empower people and businesses to succeed. We help you achieve your career goals and deliver your business needs by combining meaningful innovation with our global scale and insights. Last year we helped over 280,000 people find their next career. Join the mill... Know more