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About the Role
This is a new role where you will be Sage's first dedicated Data Architect. You will play a key role in shaping how data is designed, governed, and used across Sage. Working closely with colleagues across Technology, Product, and the wider business, you will turn enterprise architecture strategy into practical data solutions that support effective delivery, trusted reporting, and better decision-making. You will sit within our Architecture & Innovation group, partnering with product and governance colleagues to solve complex data challenges and establish consistent, secure, and reusable approaches. The role combines technical expertise with partnership and influence, helping delivery teams make sound architectural decisions while evolving Sage's data capabilities. This is an opportunity to have a meaningful impact on our data landscape, provide technical leadership, and help build the standards and foundations that enable data to be used confidently across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and maintenance of Sage's data models, integration patterns, and reference designs, translating enterprise architecture direction into practical designs for delivery teams.
- Develop and maintain data architecture standards, patterns, and guidance, and guide teams in applying them for consistent, reusable, and secure data solutions.
- Resolve complex data design problems where requirements are unclear or collaborator needs conflict, exercising judgment within architectural principles.
- Assess data and integration requirements for new initiatives, recommending architectural options with explicit trade-offs, dependencies, risks, and costs.
- Lead the data architecture element of the architectural review process, examining proposed designs and resolving data-related issues.
- Plan and drive the delivery of data architecture initiatives, organizing specialist input and technical resources.
- Define lineage, metadata, and data quality requirements within architectural designs and liaise with governance and stewardship colleagues.
- Ensure security, privacy, and regulatory requirements are designed into the data architecture from the outset.
- Build relationships across Technology, Product, and business functions, influencing data design decisions through evidence, negotiation, and consensus.
- Act as the point of technical guidance on data architecture, coaching engineers, analysts, and less experienced architects.
Requirements
- Significant experience of data architecture design in a multi-system enterprise environment, including conceptual, logical, and physical data modelling.
- Strong working knowledge of operational and analytical data design approaches, including warehouse, lake, relational, and non-relational storage on cloud-hosted platforms.
- Demonstrable experience of defining architectural standards and patterns and guiding delivery teams to apply them consistently.
- Solid understanding of data governance, data quality, security, privacy, and regulatory requirements, and how these are designed into architecture.
- Demonstrable experience of producing architectural artefacts, diagrams, and documentation understood by both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assimilate complex or incomplete information and make reasoned, defensible architectural recommendations.
- Demonstrable experience of influencing technical decisions across teams and functions without direct authority.
- Demonstrable ability to coach and/or mentor others.
- A recognised data or enterprise architecture qualification, or equivalent applied expertise, with evidence of continuous professional learning and coaching others in data design.
Skills
- Data Architecture Design
- Conceptual Data Modelling
- Logical Data Modelling
- Physical Data Modelling
- Operational Data Design
- Analytical Data Design
- Warehouse Design
- Data Lake Design
- Relational Storage
- Non-Relational Storage
- Cloud-Hosted Platforms
- Architectural Standards Definition
- Architectural Patterns Definition
- Data Governance
- Data Quality
- Data Security
- Data Privacy
- Regulatory Requirements
- Architectural Artefact Production
- Diagramming
- Documentation
- Analytical Skills
- Problem-Solving Skills
- Influencing Skills
- Coaching
- Mentoring
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Permanent
- Hybrid working up to 2 days per week in office
Experience Level
- Significant experience
- Senior
Education Level
- Recognised data or enterprise architecture qualification, or equivalent applied expertise
Salary/Compensations
- £80k - £90K
Benefits
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- 2 additional floating personal days
- Home working allowance
- Life assurance
- Income protection
- Travel insurance
- Private medical cover
- Access to the company doctor
- Tuition scheme and support for pursuing professional qualifications
- Access to Sage books and journals
- Variety of snacks and beverages available in the office
- Healthy lifestyle reimbursement
- Anniversary trips
- Access to Company loans (season ticket loan, rental deposit loan, cycle loan)
About the Company
- Sage is a global academic publisher of books, journals, and library resources with a growing range of technologies to enable discovery, access, and engagement.
- Believing that research and education are critical in shaping society, Sara Miller McCune founded Sage in 1965.
- Sage is controlled by a group of trustees charged with maintaining its independence and mission indefinitely.
- Sage's guaranteed independence allows them to support an equitable academic future, further disciplines that drive social change, and help social and behavioural science make an impact.
- Sage works together by building lasting relationships, championing diverse perspectives, and co-creating resources to transform teaching and learning.
- Sage thinks long-term by experimenting, taking risks, and investing in new ideas.
Equal Opportunity
- We’re a Disability Confident Employer (Level 1).
- We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and to sustaining a culture that celebrates diversity, encourages authenticity, and builds a deep sense of belonging.
- We encourage applications from all members of society irrespective of age, disability, sex or gender identity, sexual orientation, colour, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, or belief as crafting value through diversity is what makes us strong.