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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Data Architect - **Company:** gb Young's Employment Services Ltd - **Location:** London, UK (Remote available) - **Salary:** £95,000.0 - £100,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, ARM Architecture, Microsoft Azure, Cyber Security, Customer Data Management, Data Architecture, Information Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Software Design Patterns, Google Analytics, Python (Programming Language), Operational Data Store, SQL Databases, Data Streaming, Transaction Data, Google Cloud, Snowflake, AI Platforms, Data Management, User Identification - **Published:** August 29, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/data-architect/young-s-employment-services-ltd-job107913893 ## About the Role * Strong data architecture experience in a commercial environment where data informs revenue, pricing, trading or marketing decisions. * Excellent conceptual, logical and physical data modelling skills, including dimensional and event-based approaches. * Experience with modern cloud data platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP etc), ELT patterns, APIs, events, streaming, batch integration and data contracts. * Experience with Snowflake would be highly beneficial * Practical SQL, Python and transformation tooling experience, ideally including dbt. * Experience with consumer, digital and transactional data at scale, including web and app analytics and GA4. * Understanding of data design for ML, AI or automated decisioning, including trusted definitions, controlled access and decision/outcome capture. * Knowledge of privacy and security by design across multiple jurisdictions, including GDPR and related data protection requirements. * Confidence influencing senior stakeholders and explaining architecture decisions in business terms. Desirable experience; * Experience in entertainment, travel, hospitality, retail or another businesses where price, demand and inventory interact dynamically. * Snowflake and AWS experience, with exposure to AI or model-serving environments such as SageMaker or Snowflake Cortex. * Customer data platforms, identity resolution, consent management, experimentation or feedback-loop design. ## Description This is an exciting opportunity for a Data Architect to own the Data Architecture for a global entertainments business based in Central London. It would best suit those that thrive working autonomously in fast paced agile environments where they can really make a difference. The Data Architect will lead and shape the data architecture behind the most important commercial decisions, including pricing, marketing measurement, forecasting and trading. Our clients Global Data Platform is built on Snowflake and brings together marketing, financial and other operational data across sites in multiple countries. This role will define the models, definitions, keys, metadata and data contracts that make that data consistent, trusted and usable across markets. You'll work closely with data engineering, analytics, product, commercial, marketing, finance, IT, legal, information security and architecture teams. You'll be a senior individual contributor, setting standards, producing architecture documentation, reviewing designs and providing assurance before engineering delivery begins. What you'll do; * Own and evolve the target data architecture for commercial data across the UK, US and Europe. * Define common business entities, definitions, hierarchies, keys and data contracts across source systems and markets. * Architect data products that support pricing, revenue management, marketing measurement, forecasting and trading. * Design consumer, digital, financial and operational data models that connect behaviour, investment, sales and performance. * Embed privacy, security, consent, retention and cross-border data requirements into the architecture from the outset. * Define how analytics, ML, AI services and agents access structured data safely and consistently. * Produce data models, flows, lineage, architecture decision records and reusable design patterns for engineering and business teams. * Review and assure designs, challenge where needed and represent Data in cross-team architecture forums. ## Related Videos - [This App Reached 10,000 Users in One Week. 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