Data Architect

Turning Point is a leading health and social care social enterprise that supports people with mental health, learning disabilities, substance use, sexual health, and employment needs. We are committed to delivering inclusive, impactful, and user centered solutions that drive real outcomes for the people and communities we support.

Are you passionate about designing modern data architecture that enables real outcomes, improves access to data, and supports data informed decisions? Do you enjoy making complex data landscapes simple, reliable, and secure so teams across an organisation can make better decisions with confidence? We are looking for a Data Architect to lead the design and development of our data architecture, including scalable data models and secure integrations across internal and external data sources.

The Data Architect will play a critical role in designing how our organisation accesses data and is enabled through trusted, well structured data models. You'll report directly to the Head of Data & Analytics and play a pivotal role in shaping how our data function operates.

• Build scalable data architecture that supports onboarding new data sources and evolving needs.
• Design clear, usable data models including semantic and reporting layers.
• Create trusted foundations through strong data integrity, quality, and accessibility.
• Make complexity simple by using documentation, data maps and data flows so others can understand and adopt your designs.
• Practical problem solving, diagnosing and resolving data infrastructure issues to improve availability and reliability.

• Proven experience designing and maintaining modern data architecture, including platforms, pipelines, and integrations that support scalable analytics and reporting use cases.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills with experience working across data, analytics, performance, infrastructure, and wider business teams.
• A structured, strategic mindset, with the flexibility to roll up your sleeves and deliver.
• Curiosity, collaboration, and a drive to create order from complexity.

• 34 days' paid holiday a year, increasing with each year of service up to 36 days, with the option to buy additional holidays.
• Not for profit working environment dedicated to investing back into services and people.
• Opportunities for career development and recognition.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closing date.