Description
As a Senior Data Architect at OFGEM, you will lead the design and implementation of data architectures across projects and programmes, ensuring alignment with OFGEM's enterprise data strategy and standards.
You will work closely with architects, engineers, and business stakeholders to design scalable, interoperable, and secure data solutions that meet both operational and analytical needs.
This is a highly collaborative and influential role, combining strong technical expertise with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders across the organisation.
Responsibilities:
- Leading the design of conceptual, logical, and physical data models, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles and business needs
- Defining and promoting data standards, frameworks, and best practices to ensure consistency, quality, and compliance across data initiatives
- Designing data integration patterns that enable effective sharing, reuse, and interoperability of data across systems and services
- Ensuring that data solutions meet security, privacy, and quality requirements throughout the full data lifecycle
- Providing technical assurance for data solutions, ensuring alignment with governance, regulatory, and architectural standards
- Collaborating with data architects, engineers, analysts, and wider stakeholders to deliver effective and scalable data solutions
- Supporting the development of OFGEM's data governance approach, including metadata management and master data practices
- Driving continuous improvement in data architecture, contributing to the development of standards, tools, and ways of working across DDSS
- Creating and maintaining architectural artefacts and documentation to support organisation-wide understanding and reuse
Requirements:
- Demonstrable experience in designing and implementing enterprise-scale data architectures, solutions, and models that enable effective information management and analytics
- Strong understanding of data management and governance principles to ensure consistency, quality, and compliance across data ecosystems
- Collaborates effectively across technical and business teams, ensuring data architecture aligns with organisational strategy and stakeholder needs
- Proficiency in architectural modelling tools such as Archi and frameworks, such as ArchiMate, UML, or equivalent, with the ability to create and maintain architectural artefacts
- Holds or can obtain the following certifications or equivalent within 6 months: Formal Architectural Qualification such as BCS EA Certification or equivalent, Cloud Architecture Certification: Microsoft Azure Solution Architect
Benefits:
- Salary of £49,452 - £62,699 per year
- OFGEM contributes £14,326 towards being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme
- 30 days annual leave after 2 years
- Excellent training and development opportunities
- Opportunity to join the generous Civil Service pension
- Hybrid working (currently 1 day a week in the office but this is kept under review)
- Flexible working hours and family-friendly policies