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# Data Architect

- **Company:** HCLTech
- **Location:** Slough, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Training Data, Artificial Intelligence, Business Analytics Applications, Data Analysis, BigQuery, Continuous Integration, Data Architecture, Data Governance, Data Security, Machine Learning, Standard Sql, Google Cloud, Snowflake, Data Management, Terraform
- **Published:** September 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2879246137-data-architect

## About the Role

* Strong experience as a Data Architect / Analytics Architect in large-scale environments.
 * Hands-on architecture experience with Snowflake and/or GCP analytics platforms.
 * Experience supporting analytics and AI/ML data products.
 * Comfortable working with multiple delivery teams and stakeholders.

## Description

* Define end-to-end data architecture across ingestion, storage, transformation, and consumption layers.
 * Design and govern data models and data products on GCP (BigQuery/BigLake) and Snowflake.
 * Provide architectural direction for analytics engineering, including dbt-based transformation layers.
 * Enable AI/ML use cases by designing feature datasets, training data pipelines, and model consumption patterns.
 * Ensure solutions meet data governance, security, and access control standards.
 * Act as architectural authority, working closely with data engineers, analytics engineers, and platform teams.

Required Technical Skills

Data Platforms

 * Google Cloud Platform - BigQuery, BigLake, Dataplex, GCS
 * Snowflake Data Cloud

Analytics Engineering

 * dbt (modelling, testing, documentation, CI/CD integration)
 * Strong SQL and analytical data modelling experience

AI / ML Enablement

 * Data architecture to support ML training and inference
 * Feature store / feature dataset design (conceptual or hands-on)

Engineering & Delivery

 * CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm or equivalent)
 * Secure data access and consumption patterns


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