Principal Consultant - Data Architecture

London About Us

Do you want to boost your career and collaborate with expert, talented colleagues to solve and deliver against our clients' most important challenges? We are growing and are looking for people to join our team. You will be part of an entrepreneurial, high‑growth environment of 300,000 employees. Our dynamic organization allows you to work across functional business pillars, contributing your ideas, experiences, diverse thinking, and a strong mindset.

Are you ready?

As a Principal Data Architecture Consultant, you act as a senior technical leader in complex data and analytics engagements. You shape and govern end‑to‑end enterprise data architectures, lead technical teams, and serve as a trusted technical advisor for clients and internal stakeholders. You are responsible for ensuring that enterprise data and analytics solutions are scalable, secure, and production‑ready, while translating business requirements into robust technical designs and delivery roadmaps.

• Define and govern target enterprise data, integration and analytics architectures across cloud and hybrid environments
• Translate business objectives into scalable, secure, and compliant data solutions
• Lead the design of end‑to‑end data solutions (ingestion, integration, storage, security, processing, analytics, AI enablement)
• Guide delivery teams through implementation, rollout, and production readiness
• Function as senior technical counterpart for client architects, IT leads, and engineering teams
• Mentor data architects, system architects and engineers and contribute to best practices and reference architectures
• Support pre‑sales and solution design activities from a technical perspective

What you bring - required

• 5–8+ years of experience in enterprise data architecture, system data integration, data engineering, or analytics
• Proven experience leading enterprise data architecture work streams or technical teams
• Strong client‑facing experience in complex enterprise environments

• Strong expertise in modern data architectures, including Data Mesh/ Data Fabric/ Data lake / data warehouse architectures
• Modern Data Architecture design principles
• Batch and streaming data integration patterns
• Data Platform, Dev Ops, deployment and security architectures
• Analytics and AI enablement architectures
• Hands‑on experience with cloud data platforms, e.g.:
  Azure, AWS or GCP
• Databricks, Snowflake, Big Query, Azure Synapse / Microsoft Fabric
• Strong SQL skills and experience with relational databases (Postgres, SQL Server, Oracle)
• Experience with No
  
  SQL databases (Cosmos DB, Mongo
  
  DB, Influx
  
  DB)
• Solid understanding of API‑based and event‑driven architectures
• Experience designing and governing enterprise data migration programmes, including mapping, transformation rules, data quality remediation, etc.

• Experience with data pipelines, orchestration, and automation
• Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and production‑grade deployments
• Understanding of distributed systems;
  Docker/Kubernetes is a plus

• Strong understanding of data management and governance principles, including data quality, metadata, lineage, master data management
• Data Management software and tools
• Security, access control, and compliance considerations
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field or equivalent practical experience

• Exposure to advanced analytics, AI / ML or GenAI from an architectural perspective
• Experience with streaming platforms (Kafka, Azure Event Hubs)
• Hands‑on experience with data governance or metadata tools
• Cloud, data, or architecture certifications

• Very good English skills
• Willingness to travel for project‑related work

Join our growing Data & Analytics practice and make a difference. In this practice you will be utilizing the most innovative technological solutions in modern data ecosystem. In this role you'll be able to see your own ideas transform into breakthrough results in the areas of Data & Analytics Strategy, Data Management…