Lead Solution Data Architect in ARCHITECTURE

Lead Solution Data Architect in ARCHITECTURE

• Leeds, United Kingdom
• London, United Kingdom

Permanent

Full time

We support a range of flexible working patterns including hybrid working, flexible start and end times We also support:

• Flexible start and end time to each day
• Ability to adapt calendar as needed, this could be to fit in the school run, gym, or appointments
• Expected a 50% (with a minimum of 40%) in-office attendance requirement can be spread across the month to accommodate diverse working patterns, such as the flexibility to purchase a weekly train ticket for certain weeks
• Compressed hours (subject to approval and policy within the team)
• Working from abroad policy (subject to approval and policy within the team)

You’ll begin your day with team meetings, project stand-ups or stakeholder check-ins, followed by focused time developing architectural artefacts, reviewing roadmaps, or contributing to governance forums. You’ll collaborate with colleagues across Technology and the wider organisation, offering thought leadership and driving innovation. You and your team will also engage in strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, and the development of architectural blueprints, high level design and technical options.

The role allows flexibility in how and where you work, with a strong emphasis on collaboration, support, and continuous learning.

Do you have a passion for enterprise data analytics solution design, team leadership and a track record of driving strategic change? Maybe you already have experience in shaping technology landscapes or are eager to enhance your leadership in architecture?

• Experience in IT architecture, including applying architectural principles, standards and reference patterns to the to the design of modern data analytics platforms and AI solutions.
• Strong understanding of the data, analytics and AI technology landscape, including the ability to assess existing estates and develop roadmaps focused on reuse, simplification, and rationalisation.
• Proven ability to translate business strategies, goals, and requirements into architecturally coherent data architecture designs, blueprints, target architectures for data analytics platforms.
• Experience defining enterprise architecture artefacts such as blueprints, technical options, design patterns, standards and guardrails, high‑level designs for complex data and analytics solutions.
• Proven experience leading the data architecture of data analytics platforms from design through to implementation providing design assurance and leadership across engineering teams and business stakeholders.
• Expertise in developing data architecture artefacts such as data models, data flows, interface designs and migration and transformation strategies for data analytics and AI solutions.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, including the ability to build and maintain stakeholder maps and communicate architectural outputs effectively.
• Experience leading a team of architects, focussing on their personal development and training, and supporting them with their own workload fostering capability uplift and consistent standards.
• Experience representing architecture at governance forums and advocating for strategic solutions.

• Experience in IT leadership and management, including the development of highly skilled and engaged teams.
• Critical thinking with the ability to develop long-term strategies and advocate those strategies with stakeholders.
• Understanding of cloud-based services and their role in enterprise solutions.
• Deep domain expertise and demonstrable hands-on design experience with cloud-based services for modern analytics on the Microsoft Cloud (e.g. e.g. Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks & Unity Catalog, MS Purview, PowerBI, Ms Fabric)
• Deep expertise in data architecture, including data modelling (conceptual and…