AI-Ready Data Platform Architect | Hybrid London

Harnham - Data and Analytics Recruitment; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

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Benefits package

Job summary

Harnham - Data and Analytics Recruitment in London (Hybrid) is seeking a Data Platform Architect to own the architectural direction of a cloud-based data platform that powers AI-ready analytics and decision-making.

You will collaborate with platform engineers, governance teams and product managers to ensure data is scalable, trusted and ready for AI initiatives, while guiding Terraform, dbt, CI/CD and DataOps practices.

Qualifications

• Experience designing data platform architectures in modern cloud environments.
• Hands-on Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience.
• Proficiency with dbt in ELT workflows.
• Strong understanding of DataOps, CI/CD and engineering best practices.
• Experience with governance, security, privacy or risk functions.
• Excellent stakeholder management and coaching skills.
• Ability to translate complex requirements into scalable data solutions.
• Experience driving data lineage, observability and data modelling standards.

Responsibilities

• Designing and evolving cloud-based data platform architecture.
• Assessing and recommending data technologies and solutions across the business.
• Defining architectural standards, best practices and reusable patterns.
• Supporting data governance, security, metadata and data quality initiatives.
• Providing hands-on guidance around Terraform, dbt, CI/CD and DataOps.
• Partnering with stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable solutions.
• Driving improvements around data lineage, observability, modelling standards and platform governance.
• Supporting AI readiness programmes and semantic layer initiatives.

Skills

Data Platform Architecture

Terraform / IaC

dbt

CI/CD

DataOps

Platform engineering

Governance & Security

Stakeholder management

Tools

Terraform

dbt

Job description

Harnham - Data and Analytics Recruitment in London (Hybrid) is seeking a Data Platform Architect to own the architectural direction of a cloud-based data platform that powers AI-ready analytics and decision-making.

You will collaborate with platform engineers, governance teams and product managers to ensure data is scalable, trusted and ready for AI initiatives, while guiding Terraform, dbt, CI/CD and DataOps practices.