Lead Engineer - Data Architecture

Data Architect

Job Purpose : The Lead Engineer – Data Architecture is responsible for designing, governing, and evolving enterprise data architecture, data models, and database design standards to support scalable, reliable, and secure data solutions across business and technology platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models that align with business capabilities, application needs, and enterprise data architecture standards.
• Translate business and solution requirements into data architecture designs, including entities, relationships, attributes, keys, metadata, and database structures.
• Collaborate with product owners, business stakeholders, data engineers, application teams, analysts, and platform teams to define scalable data structures and integration patterns.
• Apply data governance principles, including naming standards, metadata management, lineage, data quality, privacy, security, and controlled data usage across data assets.
• Evaluate and optimize database schemas, data flows, storage patterns, and integration designs to improve performance, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Create and maintain data architecture documentation, data model artifacts, mappings, design decisions, standards, and SQL-based validation or analysis outputs.
• Use normalization, dimensional modelling, data warehousing, and fit-for-purpose design approaches to support operational, analytical, reporting, and downstream consumption needs.
• Lead data design reviews, identify data architecture risks and dependencies, recommend remediation options, and guide teams on data-related technical decisions.