Job Description

Company Description
We are seeking a Data Solutions Architect on a Fixed Term 6 Month Contract (potential to be extended) to provide strategic architectural oversight and establish robust standards, governance, and frameworks for Azure-based data solutions. This role is pivotal to delivering a unified and scalable system architecture that aligns with the business's ambition to expand its digital capabilities.
This contract presents an exciting opportunity to play a key role in shaping our digital transformation programme, as we strive to become a market leader in delivering a best-in-class digital customer experience for our clients.

This is a delivery-focused role, responsible for shaping architectural practices, embedding standards, and enabling teams to deliver high-quality data and integration solutions.
Ideal for an innovative and technically grounded architect, this role offers the opportunity to solve complex challenges and deliver impactful solutions for mission-critical services.

• Define and document both the current ("As-Is") and future ("Target") state enterprise IT architectures.
• Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to translate functional and non-functional requirements into scalable, secure, and maintainable solution designs.
• Own and develop a clear, actionable roadmap to achieve the target architecture.
• Assess and recommend the most effective integration methods between third-party platforms and the existing ecosystem.
• Establish and enforce architectural standards, patterns, and best practices across data and integration initiatives.
• Own and contribute to architecture decision records (ADRs) and support architectural governance processes.
• Promote reusability, modular design, and interoperability across systems to support a unified, extensible platform.
• Define and champion the data architecture vision, ensuring external vendors and development teams build solutions that align with internal standards and future-state models.

Qualifications
The ideal candidate will demonstrate a strong blend of strategic thinking, deep technical expertise, and hands-on experience in working with cloud-based architecture.

• Proven experience as a Solution Architect on enterprise-level system design and delivery, ideally within aviation, logistics, or related B2B industries.
• Strong expertise in Microsoft Azure, particularly integration services and modern cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure)
• Solid understanding of architecture principles, frameworks and methodologies.
• Skilled in providing technical leadership and guiding development teams through solution implementation.
• Strong communicator, able to convey complex technical concepts effectively to business stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of data integration, data quality, and master data management principles.
• Experience designing platforms that support third-party integrations via modern APIs and integration tools.

Additional Information

• This is a 6 month FTC with the potential to be extended, please only apply if you are happy working on a fixed contract*
• 22 days holiday (pro rata)
• Free breakfast & Lunches in our onsite canteen "The Hangar"
• Free onsite gym and classes
• Pension
• 2x charitable giving back days per year

Skills Required