Data Architect- London

FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Data Architect to work for our client within the Public sector. This is initially a 3 month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role 2 days a week in office (Monday + Wednesday) that will be based in London.

Our client is seeking a Data Architect to lead the analysis of current data flows, integrations and reporting, and define the data requirements and target data architecture needed to support a replacement platform with improved data quality and integrity.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the Discovery Plan and constraints log from a data perspective
• Map end-to-end data flows, including key upstream/downstream systems and manual transfers
• Review reporting needs and limitations, including operational, management and BI/Power BI consumption
• Assess data integration patterns, interfaces and dependencies
• Define data requirements within the requirements catalogue, ensuring consistent definitions, clear ownership and data quality by design
• Contribute to options appraisal and feasibility from a data architecture perspective, including finance impacts
• Contribute data architecture input to the target architecture and indicative roadmap
• Contribute data-related input to the business case inputs pack

Contributes to deliverables across

Project initiation & scope definition, Discovery & research plans, stakeholder/user mapping, current-state assessment, requirements elicitation, future-state definition, options assessment & recommendations, future delivery roadmap, business case inputs pack & handover.