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# Enterprise Data Architect

- **Company:** Tenth Revolution Group
- **Location:** Cambridge, UK
- **Salary:** £175,500.0 - £182,000.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Computing Platforms, Microsoft Azure, Big Data, Data Architecture, Data Infrastructure, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Migration, Dataspaces, SQL Databases, Enterprise Data Management, Snowflake, Technical Debt, Pure Data, Apache Kafka, Data Management, Data Pipelines, Databricks
- **Published:** May 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerboard.com/pt/en/find-jobs-in-United-Kingdom/-6B355DDF72D7B33D5B/

## About the Role

* Strong background in data architecture, warehousing, and integration
 * Proven experience with:
 + Snowflake
 + SQL
 + Databricks
 + ETL/ELT pipelines
 + Kafka (event-driven data movement)
 * Experience working across Azure cloud environments
 * Ability to operate at enterprise architecture level, with appreciation for infrastructure and platform design
 * Strong stakeholder management and ability to influence senior audiences
 * Experience in banking/financial services (essential)
 * Ideally exposure to onboarding and loan servicing domains

Key Traits

 * Self-sufficient, able to deliver high-quality work with minimal oversight
 * Strong communicator, comfortable presenting to senior governance forums
 * Pragmatic thinker - balances technical excellence with delivery reality
 * Confident challenging stakeholders when needed, Please Note: This is a contract role for UK residents only. This role does not offer sponsorship. You must have the right to work in the UK with no restrictions. Some of our roles may be subject to successful background checks including a DBS and credit check.

## Description

We are supporting a major retail banking client undergoing a large-scale data transformation programme, centred around modernising their data platform using Snowflake, Kafka, and Azure.

They are seeking a highly experienced Enterprise Data Architect who can operate at both a strategic and hands-on level, taking ownership of solution design across complex data ecosystems.
The Role

You will play a key role in designing and shaping data architecture across a major migration initiative, ensuring solutions are scalable, efficient, and aligned to enterprise standards.

This is not just a pure data architect role - they are looking for someone with a broad enterprise architecture mindset, who understands how data platforms integrate within wider infrastructure and systems.

You'll be expected to operate with a high level of autonomy, working closely with architecture forums, engineering teams, and business stakeholders., * Own and produce end-to-end solution architecture designs across data platforms

 * Lead design discussions and present at governance forums (TSC, TDA, Retail DAG)
 * Work closely with engineers, testers, and SMEs to validate and document system impacts
 * Collaborate with Business Analysts to ensure requirements are fully reflected in solution design
 * Engage with domain leads (Motor & Premium) to ensure alignment and buy-in
 * Challenge business requirements where necessary to avoid technical debt or over-engineering
 * Provide architectural oversight across data migration (Snowflake/Kafka) and Azure infrastructure


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