Enterprise Data Architect

Overview

Location: Birmingham (UK) / Hybrid

Department: Digital & Technology (E15)

At Compass Group UK&I, we’re more than just the UK’s leading contract catering company — we’re driving digital transformation across the business. Our Digital & Technology team is at the heart of this journey, creating cutting-edge solutions that improve efficiency, elevate customer experiences, and deliver real business impact.

We’re looking for an Enterprise Data Architect to play a pivotal role in shaping the enterprise-wide data architecture that underpins our data, reporting and analytics ambitions.

You’ll act as the owner of the enterprise data view
, defining how data is structured, governed, integrated and reused across Compass. Working closely with Data & Analytics teams, Enterprise Architects and Solution Architects, you’ll ensure data initiatives are aligned to business priorities and designed for long-term value — not short-term fixes.

This is a strategic, influential role, balancing future-state architecture with delivery-aware guidance that enables teams to move faster with confidence.

• Defining and evolving the current and target-state enterprise data architecture
• Owning the data domain architecture roadmap and backlog
• Establishing and driving adoption of data architecture principles, standards and guardrails
• Shaping data integration, acquisition and pipeline patterns across platforms
• Owning enterprise data models, domain models and Master Data Management (MDM) strategy
• Providing architectural assurance for major data initiatives and investments
• Influencing senior stakeholders across business and technology to align on data decisions

• Strong enterprise and data architecture experience, with domain-driven design expertise
• Deep knowledge of modern data platforms (data warehouses, lakes, lakehouse architectures)
• Proven experience with enterprise data modelling and MDM
• Strong understanding of cloud-based data ecosystems
• Experience with APIs, event-driven integration, batch ingestion and data replication
• Strategic thinker with a delivery-aware, pragmatic approach
• Excellent communication and stakeholder influencing skills
• Typically 10+ years’ experience in data, analytics or architecture roles within large organisations

You’ll help shape the data foundations that enable advanced analytics, AI and future business growth across Compass Group UK&I — while working in a collaborative, forward-thinking Digital & Technology team where architecture genuinely influences outcomes.