Data Architect
Vertical AerospaceStratford-on-Avon, England, United Kingdom
Posted March 31, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
Vertical Aerospace is a British aerospace tech company specializing in electric aviation. They design and build the UK's first all-electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, offering a quieter, faster, and more sustainable travel option between urban destinations. Vertical Aerospace is at the forefront of advancing electric aviation technology.
Job Description
As a Data Architect at Vertical Aerospace, you will be responsible for defining and maintaining the target data architecture across the organisation, including how data is structured, integrated, and exposed across platforms, ensuring consistency between enterprise and time-series domains. You will contribute hands-on where needed, particularly in shaping and implementing pipelines, models, and platform components. The role requires balancing longer-term architectural direction with practical delivery, working closely with data engineers, BI developers, and software teams to ensure solutions are both well-designed and delivered effectively.
Requirements
- Strong experience in data architecture, with hands-on data engineering experience in a complex, data-rich environment
- Proven ability to design scalable data models and architectures, and support their implementation in production systems
- Deep understanding of modern data architectures, including cloud platforms, data lakes/warehouses, and pipeline design
- Experience working closely with data engineering teams, and contributing directly to delivery where needed
- Strong knowledge of data modelling techniques (e.g. dimensional modelling, normalisation, time-series considerations)
- Familiarity with both structured enterprise data and high-volume time-series data environments
- Experience defining semantic layers, metrics, and data structures for analytics and reporting
- Ability to balance long-term architectural integrity with short-term delivery needs
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to align technical and non-technical teams around common standards
Benefits
- 26 days holiday, plus bank holiday
- 5 extra days per year to buy (or sell)
- 5 extra days holiday when you get married or enter a civil partnership
- Additional 4% of your salary to spend on extra benefits
- Award-winning digital health and wellbeing service (Help@Hand)
- Company performance based bonus - rewarding company and individual performance
- Company Share Scheme - open to every Vertical employee
- Company Pension Scheme - 5% and we match it
- Breakfast on us, every day
