Bright Purple
Data Architect
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Data Architect | Contract
Edinburgh, Hybrid
£525 to £600 per day
Inside IR35
Initial 6 months
Bright Purple are looking for an experienced Data Architect to join a major data transformation programme in Edinburgh. This role sits at the heart of the technical data architecture, translating wider architecture principles into practical, buildable solutions across data ingestion, processing, storage, integration, and consumption. You’ll work closely with data engineers, platform engineers, software engineers, modellers, and governance teams, defining the technical patterns and guardrails that engineering teams will actually build against.
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What we’re looking for:
- Strong practical Data Architecture experience
- Modern cloud data platform architecture
- Snowflake and Oracle, or comparable OLAP and OLTP technologies
- Advanced SQL and strong ELT and data transformation knowledge
- Data warehouse and lakehouse architecture
- Batch, event-driven, and analytical data patterns
- APIs, integration, and orchestration
- Logical, physical, and semantic data design
- Metadata, catalogue, and lineage implementation
- Data security, privacy, and access control patterns
- DevOps/DataOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code awareness
- Strong understanding of performance, scalability, and cost optimisation
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You’ll define reusable architecture patterns across pipelines, platforms, APIs, events, and analytical services, while ensuring security, data quality, observability, resilience, and operational support are designed in from the outset.
This is an initial 6-month contract, Inside IR35, paying £525 to £600 per day.
The role is hybrid in Edinburgh, with a minimum of two days per week in the office. There are no fixed anchor days.
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