Enterprise Data Architect Job at NTT DATA (London)

Enterprise Data Architect

NTT DATA

Location:
United Kingdom , London

Category:
IT - Software Development

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Job Description:

The Enterprise Data Architect will lead architectural initiatives across healthcare data platforms and analytics, requiring deep expertise in NHS data landscapes. The role demands strong governance and hands-on direction to delivery teams, ensuring compliance and innovation in data management. This role sits at the intersection of enterprise governance and practical delivery, requiring strong architectural judgement, technical credibility, and the ability to operate effectively across complex organisational and data landscapes. The Enterprise Architect will provide architectural leadership across data platforms, analytics, and interoperability initiatives, ensuring solutions align with enterprise standards, national policy direction, and the evolving NHS operating model.

Job Responsibility:

Define, maintain, and assure enterprise architecture artefacts including target operating models, reference architectures, roadmaps, and standards across healthcare data landscapes
Provide hands-on architectural direction to delivery teams, ensuring designs are implementable, scalable, secure, and aligned with enterprise principles
Act as a bridge between enterprise strategy and solution delivery, ensuring architectural intent is realised in practice
Establish and enforce architecture governance, including design assurance, architectural decision records (ADRs), and compliance with delivery standards
Define and maintain architecture patterns, standards, and guardrails across data, integration, cloud, and analytics platforms
Support investment decisions and technology selection through structured architectural assessment
Lead architecture across end-to-end data lifecycles, from ingestion and curation through analytics, research, and consumption
Provide architectural oversight of Secure Data Environments (SDEs) and Federated Data Platforms (FDPs), ensuring compliance with NHS and research governance requirements
Design and govern architectures leveraging Snowflake and modern cloud data platforms
Ensure appropriate separation and linkage between operational, analytical, and research data use cases
Apply deep knowledge of NHS data flows, including acute, community, mental health, primary care, and ALB data sources
Support initiatives aligned to Single Patient Record, population health, and health data research, including HDRS-related use cases
Engage effectively across the evolving NHS organisational landscape, including DHSC, ALBs, ICBs, providers, and national programmes
Work closely with delivery teams (data engineers, platform engineers, analysts, and product owners) to guide solution design and resolve complex architectural issues
Lead and contribute to architecture and design workshops with clinical, operational, and technical stakeholders
Provide pragmatic trade-offs and recommendations balancing policy, risk, cost, and delivery timelines

Requirements:

Proven experience as an Enterprise Architect within large, complex organisations
Strong hands-on experience delivering architectures across data platforms, analytics, and integration landscapes
Demonstrable experience operating architecture governance in live delivery environments
Strong understanding of NHS data landscapes, including acute trusts, ALBs, and system-level data flows
Familiarity with NHS Secure Data Environments (SDEs) and Federated Data Platform (FDP) concepts
Awareness of national initiatives such as Single Patient Record and DHSC Health Data Research Service (HDRS)
Understanding of the current and evolving NHS organisational model (DHSC, ALBs, ICBs, providers)
Strong understanding of modern data architectures, including cloud data platforms, data lakes, lakehouse patterns, and analytics platforms
Experience with Snowflake and/or equivalent enterprise data platforms
Solid grasp of data lifecycle management, metadata, lineage, governance, and information security in healthcare contexts
Experience designing architectures across multi-cloud or hybrid environments
Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate complex architectural concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
Comfortable operating in ambiguous, evolving environments and influencing without authority

Nice to have:

Experience supporting population health management, research analytics, or clinical data platforms
Familiarity with UK health data standards (e.g. FHIR, SNOMED, ICD, OPCS, OMOP, LOINC, DCAT)
Experience working with national NHS or DHSC programmes
Exposure to data mesh or federated data ownership models in regulated environments

What we offer:

Tailored benefits that support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing
Continuous growth and development opportunities
Flexible work options
Inclusive work environment
Range of Inclusion Networks (Women’s Business Network, Cultural and Ethnicity Network, LGBTQ+ & Allies Network, Neurodiversity Network, Parent Network)
Disability Confident Committed Employer
Guaranteed interview for applicants who declare a disability and meet the minimum requirements

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Job Posted:
February 16, 2026

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