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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Data Architect - **Company:** Gravitas Recruitment Group Ltd - **Location:** UK - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Automation of Tests, Microsoft Azure, Continuous Integration, Data Architecture, Information Engineering, Data Governance, Data Infrastructure, Data Vault Modeling, DevOps, Machine Learning, Meta-Data Management, Performance Tuning, Role-Based Access Control, Cloud Services, SQL Databases, Systems Integration, Enterprise Software Applications, Apache Spark, Data Lakes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Machine Learning Operations, Data Pipelines, Databricks - **Published:** June 13, 2026 - **Apply:** https://computerjobs.com/gb/en/mob/job/A307226ABEA9364578 ## About the Role * Significant Databricks experience required, including production-scale deployments and optimisation. * Strong hands-on capability with Spark/SQL, Delta Lake, orchestration, and data engineering patterns. * Extensive experience designing cloud data platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and integrating with enterprise systems. * Proven stakeholder management and ability to communicate architecture to both technical and non-technical audiences. * Experience with data modelling (dimensional, Data Vault, and/or domain-oriented approaches) and metadata management. * Working knowledge of DevOps practices, infrastructure as code, and automated testing for data pipelines. Desirable * Databricks Certifications highly desired (eg, Data Engineer, Data Analyst, Machine Learning, or Architect). * Experience delivering governance frameworks, catalogue implementations, and operating models. * Exposure to MLOps and analytics enablement. ## Description Overview We are seeking a Senior Data Architect to join one of our client and lead the design and delivery of modern data platforms and analytics architectures within a fast-paced, client-facing environment. You will act as the Databricks champion within the business, shaping best practice, guiding delivery teams, and supporting stakeholders through pre-sales and solution definition. Key Responsibilities * Own end-to-end data architecture across lakehouse, warehouse, and streaming patterns, ensuring scalability, security, and governance. * Act as Databricks champion: define standards, reference architectures, accelerators, and reusable assets. * Lead architectural design for Databricks (workspaces, clusters, jobs, Delta Lake, Unity Catalogue, MLflow) and integrations with cloud services. * Partner with pre-sales teams to shape propositions, run discovery, produce high-quality proposals, and present solutions to senior client audiences (pre-sales experience is essential). * Translate business requirements into target-state data models, ingestion patterns, and semantic layers. * Guide engineers on implementation, performance optimisation, cost control, CI/CD, and operational readiness. * Ensure compliance with data governance, privacy, and security controls (RBAC, encryption, auditing, lineage). 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