Full job descriptionData Architect
Salary: Up to £80,000 + bonus & benefits
Location: Flexible / Hybrid
We are recruiting for an experienced Data Architect to join a technology-led organisation undergoing a significant period of data, cloud and platform transformation.
This is a senior architecture role with responsibility for defining and evolving the organisation’s enterprise-wide data architecture, ensuring data is scalable, secure, consistent and fit for purpose across operational, analytical and customer-facing use cases.
The successful candidate will play a key role in shaping modern data platforms, supporting large-scale data migration and establishing architecture standards that enable future capabilities across reporting, analytics, AI and machine learning.
The role
You will be responsible for:
*Defining enterprise data architecture principles, standards and strategic roadmaps
*Designing and maintaining conceptual, logical and physical data models
*Shaping modern cloud-based data platforms and integration architecture
*Designing solutions using Databricks as a core part of the data platform
*Supporting batch, streaming, event-driven, medallion and big data architecture patterns
*Establishing architectural guardrails for large-scale migration of customer data from legacy platforms to modern cloud environments
*Reviewing solution designs to ensure scalability, reusability, security and architectural alignment
*Reducing duplication and technical debt across the data landscape
*Working closely with Data Governance around metadata, lineage, data quality, privacy and compliance
*Supporting governance capabilities within Databricks Unity Catalog
*Providing technical direction and mentoring to data and engineering teams
*Evaluating emerging technologies and helping shape future data capabilities
What we’re looking for
We are looking for someone with strong experience operating at enterprise Data Architect level, ideally within a complex transformation environment.
You should have:
*Strong enterprise data architecture experience
*Databricks experience – essential
*Strong experience with Azure data technologies
*Advanced conceptual, logical and physical data modelling experience
*Experience designing modern lakehouse / medallion architectures
*Knowledge of batch, streaming and event-driven integration patterns
*Experience delivering significant data migration, ideally from legacy or bespoke systems into modern cloud platforms
*Strong understanding of data governance, metadata, lineage and data quality
*Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
*Experience influencing architecture and engineering teams
Experience within insurance or financial services would be advantageous but is not essential.
Package
*Salary up to £80,000, depending on experience
*Bonus opportunity
*Company pension
*Life assurance and critical illness cover
*25 days’ holiday, increasing with service
*Holiday purchase scheme
*Flexible working approach
*Employee wellbeing support
*Additional employee discounts and benefits
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Data Architect who wants to have genuine influence over enterprise data strategy and help shape a modern, scalable data platform.