Data Architect: Cloud Data Patterns & Governance

Baillie Gifford; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Baillie Gifford is seeking a Data Architect to translate enterprise architecture into concrete data designs across ingestion, processing, storage, APIs and observability. You will collaborate with data engineers, platform engineers and governance teams to ensure scalable, secure and maintainable data solutions.

The role focuses on patterns, guardrails and design assurance across Snowflake, Oracle and related technologies.

Qualifications

• Strong practical architecture experience with a modern cloud data platform.
• Advanced SQL and engineering knowledge across batch, event-driven and analytical workloads.
• Experience designing and delivering scalable data solutions and patterns.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end technical designs for data solutions across ingestion, transformation, storage.
• Define reusable patterns and guardrails for data pipelines and lakehouse designs.
• Collaborate with data, platform and software engineers to ensure robust designs.
• Embed security and privacy by design in technical designs.
• Define patterns for data quality, observability, monitoring and incident response.
• Review designs for alignment with architecture standards and technology choices.
• Manage architecture debt, risk and remediation priorities.

Skills

Data Literacy

Systems Thinking

Storytelling

Team Working

Improvement Mindset

Digital Effectiveness

Snowflake

Oracle

SQL

Job description

Baillie Gifford is seeking a Data Architect to translate enterprise architecture into concrete data designs across ingestion, processing, storage, APIs and observability. You will collaborate with data engineers, platform engineers and governance teams to ensure scalable, secure and maintainable data solutions.

The role focuses on patterns, guardrails and design assurance across Snowflake, Oracle and related technologies.