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# Data Architect

- **Company:** 4square Recruitment Ltd
- **Location:** Worcester, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £70,000.0 - £80,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Application Integration Architecture, Big Data, Customer Data Management, Data Architecture, Data Governance, Data Infrastructure, Data Migration, Metadata, Data Streaming, Azure Data Factory, Technical Debt, Data Management, Legacy Systems, Databricks
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/data-architect/57311118

## About the Role

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.

## Description

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


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