About the Business

Quilter plc is a leading wealth management business, helping to enable brighter financial futures for every generation.

Quilter oversees £141.2 billion in customer investments (as at end December 2025). It has an adviser and customer offering spanning financial advice, investment platforms, multi-asset investment solutions, and discretionary fund management. The business is comprised of two segments: Affluent and High Net Worth.

Affluent encompasses the financial planning business, Quilter Financial Planning, the Quilter Investment Platform and Quilter Investors, the multi-asset investment solutions business.

High Net Worth includes the discretionary fund management business, Quilter Cheviot, together with Quilter Cheviot Financial Planning - offering a highly personalised service to private clients, charities, trustees, and professional partners. Quilter Cheviot has presence throughout the UK, Ireland and Channel Islands.

At Quilter we never stand still. Our foundations are rooted in our extraordinary expertise, which is trusted by hundreds of thousands of customers, but we have great ambitions to stay one step ahead and make an even greater difference to the people and communities we serve, including our colleagues.

Our business is transforming, continually modernising, and becoming even more customer centric. So, if you want to be bold in the pursuit of your ambitions, bring new ideas, and challenge and evolve what we do, it’s the perfect time to join us!

About the Role

Level: 5

Department: CDO

Location: Southampton or London

Contract type: Permanent

The role sits within the Chief Data Office (CDO) and reports to the Head of Data Platforms.

The Data Platform Architect plays a pivotal role in enabling business value by owning and managing the data platform reference architecture to enabling the organisation. This position partners with colleagues and stakeholders across the organisation to incrementally build a usable, reliable, high-quality data capability and solutions to support the business objectives. The role requires a blend of technical expertise, business acumen, collaboration to work across multiple stakeholders.

The key accountabilities for the role are as follows:

Technical Oversight & Delivery

Define and owns a multi-year data platform architecture roadmap which supports the business outcome, specifically to support data, reporting, advanced analytics and AI
*Ensures architectural coherence across Fabric, Azure, Databricks and AI environments
*Establish and maintain the enterprise data platform architecture, covering ingestion, storage, compute, orchestration, governance, quality, and consumption.
*Translate architecture principles into pragmatic, implementable guidance for engineering and delivery teams.
*Assess and recommend emerging data and analytics technologies and platform features to implement as part of the platform roadmap
*Conduct design assurance and solution reviews across platform and product squads
Cross-Functional Collaboration

Collaborate with enterprise architects, cloud platform, security and data governance to design holistic services for the business and customers *Work closely with platform tenant teams to understand challenges and enable new features and capabilities for the organisation
*Translate business needs and data strategy into architectural blueprints and solution patterns
*Communicate clearly across technical and non-technical teams to align on priorities and progress
Operational Excellence

Work across the data function with Data Engineering, Platform Engineering, Modelling and Business requirement to curate a set of design patterns to enable repeatable solution delivery *Define architectural principles that optimise reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency
*Define guardrails for resilience, compliance, and security-by-design.
*Drive continuous improvement in design and solution engineering
About You

Qualifications *Degree in a technical discipline (e.g. computer science, engineering, maths, physics) or evidence of equivalent practical experience
Knowledge/Experience: *Proven experience providing architectural leadership and influencing cross-functional technical teams
*Strong technical hand on experience in designing, building and maintaining data platform in an Azure, Databricks and Fabric ecosystem
*Experience designing data platforms using Medallion or Lakehouse architecture.
*Strong understanding of data governance: lineage, cataloguing, metadata, RBAC, data privacy.
*Experience with Lamda and multimodal data systems
*History of delivering overall strategic architecture outcomes through diverse project deliveries
*Solid grasp of data engineering, business intelligence, artificial intelligence and modern development /deployment techniques
Skills: *Strategic thinker with curious mindset and strong problem-solving skills
*Ability to communicate complex concepts in a clear, concise manner
*Ability to balance innovation with enterprise constraints
*Experience in cost-optimised architecture design for cloud environments.
*Experience in platform architecture across Azure, Databricks, AI Foundry and Microsoft Fabric platforms
*TOGAF experience is desirable
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Inclusion & Diversity

We value diversity and strive to promote inclusivity in all aspects of our culture. We believe in equal opportunities for all, ensuring that no applicant encounters less favourable treatment based on anything but their skills, qualifications, experience, and potential. We celebrate the unique contributions of a diverse workforce and create a respectful, nurturing environment where every colleague can thrive.

Values

Do the right thing: We act with integrity and are proudly committed to going above and beyond in service of our clients and the support we provide our communities.
Always curious: We continuously seek new ideas and knowledge so we’re one step ahead of our clients’ needs. We look for inspiration everywhere and encourage experimentation, recognising that this is how we create brilliant solutions for brighter futures.
Embrace challenge: We aim high to transform our potential into meaningful outcomes. With ambition as our driving force and a steadfast commitment to growth, we succeed for the good of every generation.
Stronger together: Combining our diverse talents, we accomplish more collectively than we ev