Cloud Data Platform Architect Lead

Business Integration Partners; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 52,000 - 82,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Office and client-site opportunities

Job summary

Business Integration Partners seeks a senior data platform architect to lead design and delivery of modern cloud-based data platforms across Azure and AWS, bridging on‑prem and cloud environments. You will own architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and work closely with clients and internal teams to translate requirements into robust designs, governance, and reusable assets.

The role requires 5+ years experience, certifications, and eligibility for UK security clearance, in a hybrid

Qualifications

• 5+ years designing and architecting cloud data platforms.
• Experience leading end-to-end data platform programmes.
• Expertise in data lakes, warehouses, lakehouse, data mesh, governance, security.
• Hands-on with Azure and/or AWS data services.
• Architect scalable batch and streaming pipelines.
• Proficiency in SQL/Python/Java/R.
• Architecture quality processes experience.
• Strong client-facing and stakeholder influence.
• Reusable architecture assets experience.
• Observability and cost management exposure.
• Experience in regulated environments.
• Azure/AWS certifications.
• UK security clearance eligibility.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, and delivery of modern data platforms across on-prem and cloud environments (Azure/AWS).
• Own architecture decisions and patterns aligned to client needs and best practice.
• Translate requirements into architecture designs with diagrams, documentation and standards.
• Lead delivery across engagements with governance, RAID, milestones and dependencies.
• Mentor architects and engineers to ensure high-quality delivery and standards.
• Design batch and streaming data pipelines for analytical and operational use cases.
• Collaborate with clients, vendors and partners to align with governance and security requirements.
• Contribute to reusable architecture assets and standards within BIP xTech.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Stakeholder mgmt

Data governance

Azure/AWS

ETL pipelines

SQL

Python

Java

Architecture governance

Client-facing

Reusable assets

Observability

Security

Regulated environments

UK security clearance

Tools

Azure

AWS

Job description

Business Integration Partners seeks a senior data platform architect to lead design and delivery of modern cloud-based data platforms across Azure and AWS, bridging on‑prem and cloud environments. You will own architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and work closely with clients and internal teams to translate requirements into robust designs, governance, and reusable assets.

The role requires 5+ years experience, certifications, and eligibility for UK security clearance, in a hybrid