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# Data Architect

- **Company:** Hunter Selection
- **Location:** Dunston, UK
- **Salary:** £80,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Customer Data Management, Data Architecture, Data Governance, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Systems, Data Visualization, Data Warehousing, Data Lakes, Enterprise Service Bus, Databricks
- **Published:** September 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5899594569

## About the Role

* Enterprise-level data architecture experience
 * Databricks experience is essential
 * Experience taking over outsourced architecture and bringing it back in-house
 * Experience working as an individual contributor within a team
 * Experience with migration of customer data to newer cloud-based servers
 * Experience with canonical model design patterns
 * Experience with cleansing and ETL
 * Experience creating and designing data systems using best-practice standards and principles
 * Experience with data roadmap responsibility
 * Experience with data lakes, data visualisation, and enterprise service bus (ESB)
 * Experience with data governance and compliance standards
 * Azure cloud experience
 * Excellent stakeholder communication skills
 * Experience setting long-term strategy
 * Technical authority / leadership experience

## Description

* We act as an enterprise-level data architect within the team
 * We take responsibility for the in-house architecture after it has been outsourced
 * We work as an individual contributor
 * We support upcoming projects including migration of customer data to newer cloud-based servers
 * We own the data roadmap
 * We work with Databricks, data lakes, data visualisation, and enterprise service bus (ESB)
 * We ensure data governance and compliance standards are followed
 * We communicate effectively with stakeholders
 * We help set long-term strategy

Technologies:

 * Architect
 * Azure
 * Cloud
 * Databricks
 * ESB
 * ETL
 * Support
 * Data Warehouse
 * Fabric


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