Platform Architect
Robertson Sumner Ltd
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
3 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Temporary contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
SeniorJob location
Remote
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Tech stack
Azure
Continuous Integration
Data as a Services
ETL
Github
Metadata
Role-Based Access Control
Cloud Services
Snowflake
Data Management
Terraform
Data Pipelines
Job description
- Define, refine, and implement the target technical architecture across Snowflake, Azure, and associated integration layers.
- Lead hands-on engineering across IaC, CI/CD, platform automation, access control, and metadata/lineage implementation.
- Integrate the data platform with broader application and cloud services, ensuring secure, scalable, and reliable data movement.
- Improve platform performance, cost efficiency, monitoring, and operational resilience.
- Translate requirements from product owners and technical stakeholders into scalable solution designs.
- Support the onboarding of additional data domains, workloads, and analytical use cases.
- Troubleshoot platform-wide issues and design durable, long-term fixes.
- Provide technical oversight, engineering guidance, and best-practice coaching without acting as a manager or strategist.
Requirements
- Proven experience building, scaling, and operating modern cloud-based data platforms using Snowflake and Azure.
- Strong hands-on skills in:
- Terraform (Azure + Snowflake IaC)
- CI/CD (Azure DevOps / GitHub Actions)
- Azure Data Services (ADF, Functions, Key Vault, Event Hub, etc.)
- ELT patterns and data pipeline orchestration
- Strong understanding of platform security, RBAC/ABAC, governance-enabling patterns, and data quality foundations.
- Broad experience across integration, platform automation, pipelines, metadata, observability, and cost management.
- Ability to work independently in complex environments with both legacy and modern components.
- Clear communicator who can articulate architectural decisions to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
