Description
Location: Fully UK Remote with sporadic office visits to London
Role Overview:
As a Data Architect at a leading Consultancy supporting a FTSE 250 listed end client, you will lead the development and management of data platforms and capabilities to drive transformational change across the organisation. You will utilise Microsoft Fabric to design data solutions for governance, storage, pipelines, analytics, reporting, and machine learning (ML). Your role will align with architectural standards while collaborating with multiple teams to support data-driven decision-making. You will be a leader who is a great communicator, an influencer, and a design authority at a relatively senior level, with key experience in data modelling.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architect & Design Data Solutions:
- Develop and maintain end-to-end data architecture leveraging Microsoft Fabric Services.
- Data Modelling & Integration:
- Oversee logical data models and translate them into optimised physical models.
- Design and optimise ELT/ETL pipelines for ingestion from diverse sources (on-prem, cloud, third-party).
- Compliance & Governance:
- Ensure data solutions meet relevant regulations, security standards, and architectural governance frameworks.
- Represent data initiatives in governance forums.
- Technical Leadership:
- Provide guidance to project teams ensuring best practices and high-quality data solutions.
- Stakeholder Collaboration:
- Engage with business units, project teams, and external partners to align solutions with strategic goals.
- Contribute to value stream roadmaps and report on progress.
- Technology Evaluation & Strategy:
- Assess emerging technologies to enhance efficiency and incorporate value stream plans into the strategic technology roadmap.
- Documentation & Training:
- Maintain detailed integration documentation and train stakeholders on data solutions.
Required Experience & Skills:
- Minimum of 5+ years in data engineering, BI or database architecture.
- Experience designing end-to-end data solutions on Microsoft platforms (Fabric, Azure, SQL Server Power BI).
- Strong background in master data management (MDM), data quality frameworks,and governance best practices.
- Agile methodologies experience including product managementand SAFe frameworks.
- Ability to deliver presentations to senior executives while working in regulated environments.
- Industry certifications such as TOGAF ,Microsoft Azure Solutions Expert ,Azure Data Engineer Associate ,Power BI Data Analyst Associate ,ITIL.
Technical Skills:
- Proficiency in SQL (complex queries performance tuning), Python,and PowerShell.
- Experience with Azure Data Factory ,Data Lake Storage(Gen2),and DevOps pipelines(CI/CD).
- Advanced knowledge of cloud services(Azure,AWS Google Cloud) infrastructure,and security best practices.
-Familiarity withdata validation,lineage monitoring,and integrated quality checks.
Understanding of RBAC,Aazure Key Vault,and network security.
Architectural & Strategic Skills:
Strong planning analytical organizational skills .Abilityto guide engineering teams set coding standards estimate financial impactofsolutions .UnderstandingofTOGAF ITSMand ITILframeworks .Abilityto balance short-and long-term objectivesinatransformationalenvironment.