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Remote, Leeds·Added 2 months ago (last checked 13 Nov)
Our summary
- Salary
- £80,000 - £90,000 a year
About £4,750 - £5,230 a month after tax.
- Work mode
- Remote, with limits
- Contract
- Permanent
- Experience
- Senior level
Skills
Harnham is hiring for this role in several places. This vacancy is in Leeds.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- Strong hands-on experience as a Data Architect within enterprise-scale environments
- Expertise in dimensional modelling, star schemas, facts and dimensions, and Kimball methodologies
- Experience designing and implementing Medallion Architecture frameworks
- Strong knowledge of Azure-based Data Lakehouse environments
- Experience creating curated and semantic data layers for analytical consumption
- Proven ability to develop architecture standards, governance frameworks, and modelling best practice
- Experience working across the full data lifecycle, from source systems through to business-facing analytics
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior decision-makers
Nice to have
- Background in financial services, professional services, legal services, or similarly complex data environments
- Experience supporting organisations on their journey towards customer-centric or client-centric data models
Pay & benefits
What you'll get
Remote (UK) with occasional travel | £80,000 to £90,000 + benefits
The role
You will act as the technical authority for data architecture and modelling across a modern Azure environment.
What you'll do
- Designing and governing enterprise-wide data models across a Medallion Architecture framework
- Creating curated data models using dimensional modelling and Kimball methodologies
- Defining modelling standards, governance frameworks, and data feed specifications
- Supporting the design of semantic layers that enable reporting, analytics, and future AI use cases
- Collaborating closely with Data Engineers and Analytics Engineers in an agile delivery environment
- Producing architecture documentation, diagrams, and technical designs
- Influencing wider business systems to ensure strong data architecture principles are embedded throughout the organisation
- Driving best practice across data quality, consistency, scalability, and governance
Senior Data Architect
This is an opportunity to take ownership of data architecture within a large-scale Azure Data Lakehouse transformation. You'll play a key role in shaping how data is modelled, governed, and consumed across the organisation, helping to drive the transition from traditional reporting to advanced analytics and data-driven decision making.
What They Offer
- Highly flexible remote working model with occasional travel
- Significant autonomy and ownership within a major data transformation programme
- Direct exposure to senior technology and business stakeholders
- Opportunity to become the organisation's lead authority on data modelling and architecture
- Clear opportunities to shape strategy and influence the future direction of the data platform
Hiring process
If you're a Senior Data Architect with strong Azure Data Lakehouse and data modelling expertise, apply today to learn more about this opportunity.
About Harnham
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In their own words
About the company & team
They are a well-established UK organisation with a complex data landscape and a strong commitment to modernising their data capabilities. Having invested significantly in cloud-based data infrastructure, they are now focused on building scalable, high-quality data products that support both operational and strategic objectives.
Data is becoming increasingly central to business decision making, and this role offers the chance to influence data strategy at a senior level while remaining hands-on with architecture and modelling.
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