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Data Architect (Contractor)
Data Architect (Contractor) – United Kingdom
This high-impact, short-term contract role focuses on designing and delivering a unified data and analytics platform that consolidates fragmented music industry data into a single, queryable system using BigQuery.
You will define the architecture connecting revenue, royalties, audience, and operational datasets into a coherent data warehouse. This demanding role requires deep expertise in data modeling, system integration, and entity resolution across inconsistent sources while working closely with engineers, business stakeholders, and executives to translate business needs into scalable data structures.
Key focus areas:
- Resolving conflicting data across platforms.
- Establishing trusted metrics and governance rules.
- Ownership of architectural decisions in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.
Ideal for someone who enjoys scaling complex integration challenges.
Accountabilities
- Design & own the end-to-end data warehouse architecture in BigQuery, including:
- Schema design
- Transformation layers
- Semantic conventions
- Access patterns
- Lead cross-system data integration efforts, including:
- Entity resolution
- Aggregation and reconciliation
- Handling inconsistent identifiers/data formats across multiple external platforms
- Define business metric logic, source-of-truth rules, and exception handling frameworks in collaboration with finance, marketing, operations, and executive stakeholders
- Lead a small delivery team of engineers/contractors to implement:
- Data pipelines
- Transformation logic
- Analytics-ready datasets
- Establish data quality, testability, observability, and monitoring standards to ensure reliability and trust across the analytics platform
- Evaluate and select transformation tools (e.g., dbt, SQLMesh, Dataform) with clear trade-off decisions based on system needs
- Translate business requirements into scalable data models and enforce architectural consistency across downstream analytics/reporting systems
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Requirements
- 3-8+ years of experience in:
- Data engineering
- Analytics engineering
- Data architecture
- Proven ownership of production-grade systems
- Strong expertise in:
- Designing scalable data models
- Integrating heterogeneous data sources
- Making end-to-end architectural decisions
- Deep knowledge of:
- Entity matching
- Aggregation logic
- Reconciling conflicting data across systems
- Experience integrating 5+ external SaaS platforms via:
- APIs
- Exports
- Third-party connectors
- Production environments
- Technical skills:
- Strong programming and systems thinking
- Ability to independently design, debug, and optimize data pipelines/architectures
- Leadership experience guiding engineers through ambiguous, complex data integration projects
- Excellent communication skills to collaborate with:
- Technical teams
- Analysts
- Executive stakeholders
- Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field (preferred), or equivalent practical experience
- Bonus:
- Familiarity with music industry data
- Experience with financial attribution models
- Knowledge of AI-augmented analytics systems
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Benefits
- Competitive contractor compensation, aligned with experience and project scope
- Fully remote engagement with flexible working arrangements
- Opportunity to architecture a next-gen analytics platform in music & entertainment
- High-impact role with direct visibility to executive leadership and strategic decision-making
- Exposure to multi-source data systems and advanced entity resolution challenges
- Potential to shape future AI-augmented analytics/reporting products
- Collaborative environment working with cross-functional & multidisciplinary teams
Note: Applications are managed directly by the hiring partner company. No further submission notifications will be provided through Jobgether.
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