Fractional Data Architect
Senior architecture leadership, embedded with your team two to three days a week, for as long as you need senior weight in the room, and no longer. Direction, hands-on build, and team guidance: the full senior data function without the full-time hire.
- ✓You're scaling and the data platform has become the thing every team works around.
- ✓You have capable engineers but no one senior enough to own the architecture.
- ✓A full-time principal hire is months away, or simply not justified yet.
- ✕You need 5 days a week of hands-on delivery, let's talk about Senior Engineer Support instead.
- ✕You want a name on the org chart more than you want the work done.
The deliverables, in plain terms.
Architecture decisions
I own the hard calls, and document them so they outlast me.
Sprint ceremonies
In your planning, standups and reviews as the senior technical voice.
Code review & mentoring
Hands on the work where it matters, lifting your team as we go.
Roadmap ownership
A data roadmap your teams can read, challenge, and build against.
Weeks 1–2
Listen. Map the platform, the team, and the real priorities before changing anything.
Month 1
Land the first decisions and a roadmap everyone has seen and argued with.
Ongoing
Embedded delivery, review and mentoring, with a deliberate exit in mind from day one.
Architecture Advisory
Lighter ongoing senior input: tool and migration calls, second opinions, a sounding board once the build has stabilised. …
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