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Job Description

Contract Data Architect

Greenfield Data Platform

Outside IR35 | £600-£675 per day

Initial 6 months | Start January

Hybrid - Manchester (1-2 days per week on site)

Overview

This is a great piece of work with a supply chain management consultancy who are building a greenfield data platform from scratch. Following a recent business split, data preparation is currently manual, and spreadsheet driven. The goal is to design a scalable, cloud-based platform to ingest, standardise, and enrich client data, initially for internal use and later as the foundation for client facing products.

This is a hands-on Data Architect role with full ownership of architecture, standards, and core data modelling.

Key Responsibilities

Design and own a universal core data model Define ingestion patterns for varied client data sources including APIs, file uploads, batch, streaming, and CDC Architect scalable ETL pipelines handling hundreds of millions of rows Recommend and help select the most appropriate cloud platform and data stack Set modelling standards and architectural principles in a fully greenfield environment Advise on AI and ML usage for data identification, categorisation, and enrichment Ensure alignment with GDPR and ISO requirements Support infrastructure as code practices using Terraform

Environment

Fully greenfield data estate Cloud agnostic, with early AWS prototyping Client data from highly variable third party sources Microsoft 365 for internal operations Power BI used in a bespoke, consultant driven manner

Required Experience

Strong Data Architecture experience on greenfield data platforms Enterprise data modelling and large scale data design expertise Modern ETL and data ingestion architecture experience Cloud architecture experience across AWS, Azure, or GCP Infrastructure as code, ideally Terraform Comfortable operating autonomously and hands on

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