DDAT - Senior Data Architect (DV)
| Posting date: | 30 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £59,690 per year, pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 29 September 2025 |
| Location: | SW1A 2HB, BS34 8JH, SN13 9NR, DL9 3PZ |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Ministry of Defence |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 422637 |
Summary
Defence Digital are seeking a creative individual to advance their career in Data & Information Management and help the MoD integrate data-driven changes. You will join the Chief Data Office, Enterprise Data & Information Architecture Team. The team ensures the adoption of data standards and best practices, supporting data architects across the Ministry of Defence. Reporting to the Head of Enterprise Data Architect, you will build our data architecture capability, drive coherence, and reduce inefficiencies. You will also implement best practices and governance, liaising with senior architects and non-technical subject matter experts
We champion the development of coherent data architecture strategies across the nineteen different Defence organisations to ensure that Defence’s data landscape is more than just the sum of its parts, minimising the time-to-data-value for data users and reducing the burden on data producers.
Responsibilities
1. Delivering the data architecture function across the Ministry of Defence:
Liaising with business areas’ data architecture leads, Data SMEs and supporting them to produce local data architecture strategies, create/update policies and designs & delivery plans
Provide supporting to data architects in enhancing their technical data skills
Working with data architects to continually refine data architecture activities and processes
Create or Review Conceptual and Logical Data Models to ensure that these models are comprehensive and align with the overall data strategy. They should accurately represent the data requirements and relationships within the organisation.
Contribute to Creating an Enterprise Data Model for MoD by integrating various data models into a cohesive enterprise-wide model. It should support data consistency, quality, and governance across the organisation.
2.Acting as a key data architecture governance stakeholder
Supporting data architecture leads to bring their outputs for review and sign-off at the Data Architectural Reference Authority or Technical Design Authority
Acting as critical friend to lead data architects of different business functions and informally supporting their data & information architectural design work
For more information on the Data Architect role please see the Government Digital and Data Framework;
Senior Data Architect
We champion the development of coherent data architecture strategies across the nineteen different Defence organisations to ensure that Defence’s data landscape is more than just the sum of its parts, minimising the time-to-data-value for data users and reducing the burden on data producers.
Responsibilities
1. Delivering the data architecture function across the Ministry of Defence:
Liaising with business areas’ data architecture leads, Data SMEs and supporting them to produce local data architecture strategies, create/update policies and designs & delivery plans
Provide supporting to data architects in enhancing their technical data skills
Working with data architects to continually refine data architecture activities and processes
Create or Review Conceptual and Logical Data Models to ensure that these models are comprehensive and align with the overall data strategy. They should accurately represent the data requirements and relationships within the organisation.
Contribute to Creating an Enterprise Data Model for MoD by integrating various data models into a cohesive enterprise-wide model. It should support data consistency, quality, and governance across the organisation.
2.Acting as a key data architecture governance stakeholder
Supporting data architecture leads to bring their outputs for review and sign-off at the Data Architectural Reference Authority or Technical Design Authority
Acting as critical friend to lead data architects of different business functions and informally supporting their data & information architectural design work
For more information on the Data Architect role please see the Government Digital and Data Framework;
Senior Data Architect