Data Architect (Governance)

About the role

An Information Architect is required to support the Change Program. They will be responsible for designing, structuring, and governing business information assets to align with business needs and strategic objectives. It ensures information assets are consistently structured, classified, governed, and integrated across business systems and services.

Key responsibilities

• Design, document, and govern information architectures that support business capabilities, service delivery, and enterprise information management objectives
• Work closely with business and technical stakeholders to understand information requirements
• Develop information models and structures
• Define metadata and taxonomy frameworks
• Support information governance initiatives
• Ensure information assets are aligned with enterprise and data architecture strategies
• Contribute to Agile delivery practices and maintain work items in Azure DevOps
• Support governance activities
• Provide knowledge transfer to build internal capability
• Attend quarterly PI Planning in person

About you

• Proven experience designing, implementing, and governing enterprise information architectures, information models, taxonomies, metadata frameworks, and content structures
• Demonstrated experience developing information management standards, governance frameworks, classification schemes, and practices that improve information quality, accessibility, compliance, and usability
• Demonstrated ability to engage, influence, and collaborate with business and technical stakeholders at all levels, including senior executives, architects, and governance forums
• Experience designing logical and conceptual information models, information classifications, metadata standards, taxonomies, and structures that support discoverability, reuse, and interoperability
• Experience ensuring information architecture aligns with enterprise, data, solution, and business architecture practices while supporting integration across systems and services
• Strong ability to produce high-quality information architecture artefacts, governance documentation, briefing papers, standards, roadmaps, and executive presentations
• Understanding of information management obligations relating to privacy, records management, security classifications, information governance, and regulatory compliance
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments, using tools such as Azure DevOps, and ensuring alignment with enterprise governance, architecture standards, and organisational policies
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively, build trust, contribute positively to team culture, support others, and create alignment across diverse stakeholder groups
• Must hold Baseline security clearance