Data Architect - AI - Public Sector
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This role is for a Data Architect - AI - Public Sector, with a contract length of "unknown" and a pay rate of "unknown". Key skills include data architecture for large digital services, LLM integration, data governance, and stakeholder management. Active SC clearance required.
🌎 - Country
United Kingdom
💱 - Currency
£ GBP
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💰 - Day rate
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🗓️ - Date discovered
September 17, 2025
🕒 - Project duration
Unknown
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🏝️ - Location type
Unknown
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📄 - Contract type
Outside IR35
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🔒 - Security clearance
Yes
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📍 - Location detailed
London
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#Data Governance #Strategy #Metadata #AI (Artificial Intelligence) #Data Architecture
Role description
Data Architect – AI – Public Sector - Outside IR35
SR2 is supporting a flagship UK government AI initiative and seeking a Data Architect to support the discovery and pilot phase.
You’ll lead the data architecture that powers it: modelling content and user data, setting metadata/taxonomy standards, and designing how information is prepared and governed for use in LLM-powered features.
What you’ll do
• Define the IA strategy and standards
• Design data models for goals, steps, eligibility, location and services, aligning to user needs and product outcomes.
• Establish data governance
• Design and document data flows into LLMs (grounding/RAG pipelines, chunking, embeddings, vector indexes, prompt/response schemas, evaluation).
• Collaborate with Content & Service Designers, AI Engineers, Product & Delivery to prototype and iterate.
• Embed privacy, safety and ethics
• Produce clear artefacts and runbooks for alpha/pilot and handover. Essential experience:
• Proven Data Architecture for large digital services
• Hands-on experience feeding data into LLMs/AI apps (RAG, vector stores, grounding, evaluation).
• Strong data modelling
• Practical data governance (quality, lineage, catalogues) and excellent stakeholder skills.
• Knowledge of agentic AI patterns and open interoperability standards (e.g. MCP). Nice to have
• Government Service Standard, accessibility, and mobile-first delivery experience.
• Active SC clearance.
Data Architect – AI – Public Sector - Outside IR35
SR2 is supporting a flagship UK government AI initiative and seeking a Data Architect to support the discovery and pilot phase.
You’ll lead the data architecture that powers it: modelling content and user data, setting metadata/taxonomy standards, and designing how information is prepared and governed for use in LLM-powered features.
What you’ll do
• Define the IA strategy and standards
• Design data models for goals, steps, eligibility, location and services, aligning to user needs and product outcomes.
• Establish data governance
• Design and document data flows into LLMs (grounding/RAG pipelines, chunking, embeddings, vector indexes, prompt/response schemas, evaluation).
• Collaborate with Content & Service Designers, AI Engineers, Product & Delivery to prototype and iterate.
• Embed privacy, safety and ethics
• Produce clear artefacts and runbooks for alpha/pilot and handover. Essential experience:
• Proven Data Architecture for large digital services
• Hands-on experience feeding data into LLMs/AI apps (RAG, vector stores, grounding, evaluation).
• Strong data modelling
• Practical data governance (quality, lineage, catalogues) and excellent stakeholder skills.
• Knowledge of agentic AI patterns and open interoperability standards (e.g. MCP). Nice to have
• Government Service Standard, accessibility, and mobile-first delivery experience.
• Active SC clearance.
