Data Architect

4Square Recruitment Ltd; Worcester; Hybrid; GBP 72,000 - 88,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus opportunity

Company pension

Life assurance

Critical illness cover

25 days holiday

Holiday purchase scheme

Flexible working

Wellbeing support

Employee discounts

Job summary

4Square Recruitment Ltd is seeking an experienced Data Architect to lead enterprise data architecture during a major data, cloud and platform transformation. The role focuses on scalable, secure, and fit-for-purpose data across operational, analytical and customer-facing use cases and involves modern cloud platforms.

Responsibilities include designing data models, shaping Databricks-based platforms, driving migration from legacy systems, and setting governance with metadata, lineage and data

Qualifications

• Strong enterprise data architecture experience.
• Databricks experience – essential.
• Advanced data modelling across conceptual, logical and physical layers.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise data architecture principles and roadmaps.
• Design and maintain data models (conceptual, logical, physical).
• Shape modern cloud-based data platforms and integration architecture.
• Provide technical direction and mentoring to data and engineering teams.
• Support governance with metadata, lineage, data quality and privacy.

Skills

Enterprise data architecture

Stakeholder management

Communication

Mentoring teams

Data governance

Tools

Databricks

Azure data services

Databricks Unity Catalog

Job description

Data Architect

Salary: Up to £80,000 + bonus & benefits

Location: Flexible / Hybrid

We are recruiting for an experienced Data Architect to join a technology-led organisation undergoing a significant period of data, cloud and platform transformation.

This is a senior architecture role with responsibility for defining and evolving the organisation’s enterprise-wide data architecture, ensuring data is scalable, secure, consistent and fit for purpose across operational, analytical and customer-facing use cases.

The successful candidate will play a key role in shaping modern data platforms, supporting large-scale data migration and establishing architecture standards that enable future capabilities across reporting, analytics, AI and machine learning.

The role

You will be responsible for:

• Defining enterprise data architecture principles, standards and strategic roadmaps
• Designing and maintaining conceptual, logical and physical data models
• Shaping modern cloud-based data platforms and integration architecture
• Designing solutions usingDatabricks as a core part of the data platform
• Supporting batch, streaming, event-driven, medallion and big data architecture patterns
• Establishing architectural guardrails for large-scale migration of customer data from legacy platforms to modern cloud environments
• Reviewing solution designs to ensure scalability, reusability, security and architectural alignment
• Reducing duplication and technical debt across the data landscape
• Working closely with Data Governance around metadata, lineage, data quality, privacy and compliance
• Supporting governance capabilities withinDatabricks Unity Catalog
• Providing technical direction and mentoring to data and engineering teams
• Evaluating emerging technologies and helping shape future data capabilities

What we’re looking for

We are looking for someone with strong experience operating atenterprise Data Architect level, ideally within a complex transformation environment.

You should have

• Strong enterprise data architecture experience
• Databricks experience – essential
• Strong experience withAzure data technologies
• Advanced conceptual, logical and physical data modelling experience
• Experience designing modern lakehouse / medallion architectures
• Knowledge of batch, streaming and event-driven integration patterns
• Experience delivering significantdata migration, ideally from legacy or bespoke systems into modern cloud platforms
• Strong understanding of data governance, metadata, lineage and data quality
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Experience influencing architecture and engineering teams

Experience withininsurance or financial services would be advantageous but is not essential.

Package

• Salary up to£80,000, depending on experience
• Bonus opportunity
• Company pension
• Life assurance and critical illness cover
• 25 days' holiday, increasing with service
• Holiday purchase scheme
• Flexible working approach
• Employee wellbeing support
• Additional employee discounts and benefits

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Data Architect who wants to have genuine influence over enterprise data strategy and help shape a modern, scalable data platform.