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# Head of Data Architecture

- **Company:** Careerwise
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £72,703.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Data Analysis, Data Architecture, Information Engineering, Data Governance, Data Infrastructure, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Warehousing, Meta-Data Management, Standard Sql, Enterprise Data Management, Data Ingestion, Azure Data Factory, Microsoft Fabric, Data Lineage, Data Management, Stream Analytics
- **Published:** August 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5844293410

## About the Role

* Strong Data / Enterprise Data Architecture background
 * Extensive Microsoft Fabric experience
 * Azure Data Platform
 * Lakehouse, Warehousing and Data Engineering
 * Enterprise data modelling
 * Metadata management, lineage and data catalogues
 * Master Data Management (MDM)
 * Data governance and data quality
 * APIs, ETL/ELT and integration patterns
 * SQL
 * Strong stakeholder management and architectural leadership

## Description

* Lead the architecture and design of the Microsoft Fabric data platform
 * Define patterns for Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, Real-Time Analytics, Semantic Models and Data Engineering
 * Design scalable data ingestion, transformation, storage and consumption patterns
 * Define enterprise conceptual, logical and physical data models
 * Establish metadata-driven architecture, data lineage and cataloguing standards
 * Define Master Data Management (MDM) principles
 * Develop enterprise data architecture standards and roadmaps
 * Design integration architectures using APIs, event-driven patterns and ETL/ELT
 * Embed data governance, security and data quality
 * Work across data engineering, analytics, architecture and business teams


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