Data Architect

This is a senior architecture role with responsibility for defining and evolving the organisation’s enterprise-wide data architecture, ensuring data is scalable, secure, consistent and fit for purpose across operational, analytical and customer-facing use cases.

The successful candidate will play a key role in shaping modern data platforms, supporting large-scale data migration and establishing architecture standards that enable future capabilities across reporting, analytics, AI and machine learning.

The role

You will be responsible for:

• Defining enterprise data architecture principles, standards and strategic roadmaps
• Designing and maintaining conceptual, logical and physical data models
• Shaping modern cloud-based data platforms and integration architecture
• Designing solutions using Databricks as a core part of the data platform
• Supporting batch, streaming, event-driven, medallion and big data architecture patterns
• Establishing architectural guardrails for large-scale migration of customer data from legacy platforms to modern cloud environments
• Reviewing solution designs to ensure scalability, reusability, security and architectural alignment
• Reducing duplication and technical debt across the data landscape
• Working closely with Data Governance around metadata, lineage, data quality, privacy and compliance
• Supporting governance capabilities within Databricks Unity Catalog
• Providing technical direction and mentoring to data and engineering teams
• Evaluating emerging technologies and helping shape future data capabilities

We are looking for someone with strong experience operating at enterprise Data Architect level, ideally within a complex transformation environment.

You should have:

• Strong enterprise data architecture experience
• Databricks experience - essential
• Strong experience with Azure data technologies
• Advanced conceptual, logical and physical data modelling experience
• Experience designing modern lakehouse / medallion architectures
• Knowledge of batch, streaming and event-driven integration patterns
• Experience delivering significant data migration, ideally from legacy or bespoke systems into modern cloud platforms
• Strong understanding of data governance, metadata, lineage and data quality
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Experience influencing architecture and engineering teams

Experience within insurance or financial services would be advantageous but is not essential.

• Salary up to £80,000, depending on experience
• Bonus opportunity
• Company pension
• Life assurance and critical illness cover
• 25 days’ holiday, increasing with service
• Holiday purchase scheme
• Flexible working approach
• Employee wellbeing support
• Additional employee discounts and benefits