Job Title: Data Architect

Salary: £53,300 - £71,300

Location: Cambridge/Hybrid with office attendance for an average of 2 days a week

Contract: Permanent

Are you ready to shape the future of data at Cambridge University Press & Assessment?

Join us as a Data Architect and play a pivotal role in delivering a scalable, coherent data framework that supports our enterprise data strategy and digital transformation. You'll enable the strategic use of data and AI across the organisation, supporting data-driven and AI-enabled decision making.

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

About the role

As a Data Architect, you will:

• Support the development and delivery of data architectures aligned with our enterprise data strategy.
• Contribute to the adoption of data mesh and data product principles.
• Enable analytics, reporting, and operational efficiency through scalable data solutions.
• Promote data strategy and support stakeholder engagement.
• Define and implement data architecture roadmaps.
• Collaborate with architects, analysts, and engineers to deliver high-quality data solutions.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of data architecture standards, patterns, and policies.
• Support the advancement of data capabilities such as analytics and AI enablement.
• Stay informed about emerging trends in data architecture and AI, contributing ideas for continuous improvement.

About you

You will bring:

• Experience in Data Architecture, Data Engineering, or a related field (3+ years or demonstrated experience ).
• Strong understanding of enterprise and information architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman).
• Knowledge of data mesh, data products, and data contracts.
• Experience with data management, integration, and modelling.
• Awareness of cloud-native data platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Ability to translate business requirements into scalable data solutions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Collaborative mindset and willingness to share knowledge and best practices.
• Commitment to continuous learning and improvement

If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.

Rewards and benefits

We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Group personal pension scheme
• Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
• Green travel schemes

We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being 14th October with interviews to be shortly after.

The interview process includes:

• First stage - Introductory call about your relevant skills
• Second stage - Technical assessment session
• Third stage - In-person interview with a presentation, assessing fit for the position and organisation

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

Why join us

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it's safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.

We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different

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