🚨 Data Architect | 6 Month Contract | London | Active SC Clearance Required
About this role
This role is suited to someone with strong enterprise data architecture experience, deep data modelling capability, and a solid understanding of regulated, governed environments. 🏢 About Optima Partners: Optima Partners is a challenger consultancy focused on AI-driven transformation, helping organisations across Financial Services & Insurance, Energy, and Telecoms turn strategy into measurable outcomes. The team combines expertise across data, technology, design, marketing, and transformation to simplify complexity, build trusted partnerships, and deliver practical change that lasts. · 💼 Role: Data Architect · 📍 Location: London · ⏱️ Duration: 6 months · 🔐 Clearance: Active SC clearance required · 🤝 Engagement: Contract ✅ Key experience required: Strong background in enterprise data architecture, information architecture, and data domain modelling Experience across conceptual, logical, and physical data modelling Ability to define canonical, domain, shared, reference, and analytical data models Good understanding of data governance, data quality, metadata, lineage, traceability, and auditability Experience shaping data strategy and translating it into practical roadmaps aligned to business outcomes Knowledge of data migration strategy, including source-to-target mapping, reconciliation, and phased cutover approaches ⭐ Additional experience: Experience defining enterprise data architecture principles, standards, models, and architecture repositories Understanding of data ownership, stewardship, and federated operating models Experience designing data architectures for regulatory, security, and compliance requirements Awareness of modern cloud data platforms such as Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, and Spark-based ecosystems Ability to communicate complex data concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders Comfortable working independently in complex, regulated environments 📩 If you’re an Active SC Cleared Data Architect available for a London-based contract, please get in touch or send me a message to discuss further.
What this role is, and what else it is called
Employers in London advertise this kind of work as Data Analyst, Senior Data Engineer, Data Engineer and Data Scientist too, so it is worth searching more than one wording. It is a lead or principal Data, AI & Machine Learning role in London, advertised as on-site.
About hiring at Optima Partners
Optima Partners has 12 other live technology roles on its careers page, across Data, AI & Machine Learning, IT Leadership & Management and Enterprise Applications. Of those, 0% are advertised as fully remote and 62% as hybrid. Elsewhere in its adverts Optima Partners asks for Python, Machine Learning and SQL. We have been observing Optima Partners hiring technology staff since June 2026. See all Optima Partners roles, salaries and stack.
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