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Engineering · Holborn Circus, London · Hybrid

🚨 Data Architect | 6 Month Contract | London | Active SC Clearance Required

Data Architect: shape trusted enterprise data models, strategy and governance for a 6-month London contract, helping regulated organisations turn complexity into practical outcomes.

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We are currently looking for an experienced Data Architect to support a 6-month contract engagement based in London. This role is suited to someone with strong enterprise data architecture experience, deep data modelling capability, and a solid understanding of regulated, governed environments.

🏢 About Optima Partners: Optima Partners is a challenger consultancy focused on AI-driven transformation, helping organisations across Financial Services & Insurance, Energy, and Telecoms turn strategy into measurable outcomes. The team combines expertise across data, technology, design, marketing, and transformation to simplify complexity, build trusted partnerships, and deliver practical change that lasts.

· 💼 Role: Data Architect

· 📍 Location: London

· ⏱️ Duration: 6 months

· 🔐 Clearance: Active SC clearance required

· 🤝 Engagement: Contract

✅ Key experience required:

  • Strong background in enterprise data architecture, information architecture, and data domain modelling

  • Experience across conceptual, logical, and physical data modelling

  • Ability to define canonical, domain, shared, reference, and analytical data models

  • Good understanding of data governance, data quality, metadata, lineage, traceability, and auditability

  • Experience shaping data strategy and translating it into practical roadmaps aligned to business outcomes

  • Knowledge of data migration strategy, including source-to-target mapping, reconciliation, and phased cutover approaches

⭐ Additional experience:

  • Experience defining enterprise data architecture principles, standards, models, and architecture repositories

  • Understanding of data ownership, stewardship, and federated operating models

  • Experience designing data architectures for regulatory, security, and compliance requirements

  • Awareness of modern cloud data platforms such as Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, and Spark-based ecosystems

  • Ability to communicate complex data concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders

  • Comfortable working independently in complex, regulated environments

📩 If you’re an Active SC Cleared Data Architect available for a London-based contract, please get in touch or send me a message to discuss further.

Department
Engineering
Locations
Holborn Circus, London
Remote status
Hybrid
Engineering · Holborn Circus, London · Hybrid

🚨 Data Architect | 6 Month Contract | London | Active SC Clearance Required

Data Architect: shape trusted enterprise data models, strategy and governance for a 6-month London contract, helping regulated organisations turn complexity into practical outcomes.

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