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. 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 You ll define reusable architecture patterns across pipelines, platforms, APIs, events and analytical services, while ensuring security, data quality, observability, resilience and operational support ..... full job details .....