Data Architect London (Hybrid) 6 Month Contract £500/day (Outside IR35) Data Architect needed with Retail sector and large-scale cloud data platform experience including Databricks, Snowflake and/or BigQuery. 6 Month Rolling Contract. Hybrid Working - 2 days/week remote (WFH) + 3 days/week working from the London office. Start ASAP in March/April 2026. A chance to work with a leading global IT transformation business specialising in large-scale Government projects. Hands-on data architecture experience with 2 or more major cloud data platform implementations (Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery). Retail industry experience strongly preferred including Retail data domains: Point of Sale (POS), consumer, trade promotion, supply chain, finance. Supporting the end-to-end data architecture life-cycle including: discovery, design + implementation phases. Large-scale data platform modernisation, consolidation + migration programmes experience. In-depth experience in data platform architecture + data engineering roles. Evaluating current platforms + designing integration and migration patterns for a future data platform. Performing As-Is assessments of existing data platforms including: environments, data flows, patterns, governance, performance + cost hotspots. Designing integration patterns to enable safe + efficient cross-platform data analytics + data sharing. Defining target state technical patterns for how multiple platforms converge / coexist including: data engineering, data sto