Whiteshield: Data Architect

Job Overview

Job Description

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Responsibilities

  • Design and implement scalable, secure, and high‑performing data architectures across cloud and hybrid environments
  • Define enterprise data models, standards, and governance frameworks to ensure consistency and interoperability
  • Architect modern data platforms (data lakes, warehouses, lakehouses) to support analytics, AI, and operational use cases
  • Lead client engagements as a trusted advisor on data strategy, architecture, and platform design
  • Translate business and policy objectives into structured data solutions and pipelines
  • Establish data governance practices including data quality, lineage, cataloguing, and access control
  • Design data integration strategies across multiple systems, APIs, and external data sources
  • Enable AI and advanced analytics use cases by ensuring data is structured, accessible, and production‑ready
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to implement pipelines, orchestration, and real‑time/streaming architectures
  • Balance long‑term architecture vision with rapid delivery in dynamic environments

Qualifications

  • 7+ years data architecture experience with deep Oracle and SQL Server expertise
  • Informatica PowerCenter (or equivalent ETL platform)
  • Change Data Capture (CDC) for incremental and near real‑time sync
  • Complex source‑to‑target mapping across large schema landscapes
  • Bidirectional sync with conflict resolution strategies
  • Data quality profiling, validation, and reconciliation frameworks
  • Data governance, lineage tracking, and metadata cataloguing

Good to Have

  • Domain‑driven data modelling (database‑per‑service patterns)
  • Liquibase or equivalent schema change management
  • Physical schema design from logical/conceptual model

Tech Stack

  • Data Platforms: Azure Data Factory, Synapse, Databricks, BigQuery, Snowflake
  • Databases: Postgres, MSSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch
  • Processing: Spark, Python, SQL
  • Cloud: Azure, AWS, or GCP
  • Orchestration: Airflow, Prefect, or similar
  • DevOps: CI/CD, Docker, Terraform
  • Analytics & BI: Power BI, Tableau, Looker

Benefits

Meaningful impact: Your work helps shape products used at national scale – enabling people to access services, opportunities, and support that make a real difference in everyday lives.

Creative freedom: You will have room to explore ideas, test approaches, and raise the bar for design quality – even in complex, regulated environments. We value thoughtful experimentation and encourage new ways of working.

High‑calibre collaboration: You’ll work alongside talented people across policy, data, design, and technology – bringing different perspectives together to solve complex problems well.

Flexibility that works: We operate in an outcome‑driven, remote‑friendly way that respects individual working styles. Trust, autonomy, and balance are core to how we work.

Supportive culture: You will join a team that values respect, inclusion, and wellbeing – where people are encouraged to do their best work without burning out.

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2026-04-11 07:12:56