Job Role - Data Architect OLTP Data Modelling
Location - Remote
Duration: 12 months + Contract
Job Description:
Data Architect OLTP Data Modelling
Remote
Experience: 12-16 Years
Needed for a large-scale platform modernization program, migrating a legacy monolithic application into a cloud-native, API-first and event-driven architecture, to be implemented in an AI-first operating model using Spec-Driven Development, where specifications govern design, build and test, and AI coding agents are used across the SDLC under human review.
Responsibilities & Expectations
- Define the canonical data model, data flows and data ownership across the modernized platform and existing systems.
- Establish data standards, lineage, quality controls and compliance alignment for sensitive healthcare data.
- Design the data integration approach across services and partner platforms.
- Assess data migration considerations and provide indicative approach and effort for the build phase.
- Define the data components of the infrastructure and deployment model, including performance and scalability requirements.
- Support architecture review board submissions and act as data authority for the programme.
Experience & Expertise
- 12 16 years in data engineering or architecture, with 4+ years in a data architect role.
- Strong data modelling expertise - conceptual, logical and physical - across relational and event-driven systems.
- Hands-on experience with Kafka or comparable streaming platforms and data integration patterns.
- Cloud data architecture on Azure or AWS; familiarity with modern data platform tooling.
- Experience with data migration and legacy data estate rationalisation.
- Awareness of healthcare data standards and PHI/PII handling obligations.