Azure Data Architect — End-to-End Data Solutions

Reply; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Reply is hiring a Data Architect to design practical, scalable, and secure data solutions with a strong emphasis on Microsoft Azure. You will engage with clients, delivery teams, and stakeholders to translate business needs into architectures spanning ingestion, storage, and analytics.

The role progresses from data engineering toward architecture and governance, with a focus on secure, maintainable, cost-aware designs.

Qualifications

• Experience in data engineering, data solution design, or data architecture roles.
• Strong expertise in Microsoft Azure data services and modern cloud platforms.
• Experience with Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Synapse Analytics, Fabric, or Data Lake Storage.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end data solutions across ingestion, transformation, storage, modelling, and consumption layers.
• Work with clients to understand business goals, reporting needs, data challenges, and technical constraints.
• Produce high-quality architecture documentation, solution designs, and data models.
• Design secure, scalable, resilient, and supportable data platforms and solutions.
• Define patterns for data integration, transformation, storage, and analytics.
• Support the design of lakehouse, warehouse, and reporting solutions using Azure-based services.
• Ensure data quality, lineage, governance, and security are incorporated into solution design.
• Collaborate with engineers and consultants and facilitate workshops and design discussions with clients and delivery teams.
• Evaluate design options and contribute to best practices, reusable assets, and mentoring of junior team members.

Skills

Azure data services

Data modelling

Data governance

Client-facing

Python/SQL/Spark

Tools

Databricks

Synapse Analytics

Power BI

Fabric

Data Factory

Purview

Job description

Reply is hiring a Data Architect to design practical, scalable, and secure data solutions with a strong emphasis on Microsoft Azure. You will engage with clients, delivery teams, and stakeholders to translate business needs into architectures spanning ingestion, storage, and analytics.

The role progresses from data engineering toward architecture and governance, with a focus on secure, maintainable, cost-aware designs.