Data Platform Architect — Databricks & Cloud Governance

Burberry; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Burberry is seeking a Data Platform Architect to own the enterprise data platform architecture, ensuring scalability, cost efficiency and security. This role leads architectural standards, governance and design decisions across cross-functional squads, guiding Data Platform Engineers and Data Engineers.

The candidate will drive the platform roadmap, establish non-functional requirements, and collaborate with security and governance teams to ensure compliant, resilient data capabilities that

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with Databricks and Lakehouse architectures.
• Proven ability to define architectural standards and patterns.
• Experience in central architecture functions and governance.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain the platform's technical architecture.
• Define architectural standards, guardrails, and cost optimisation.
• Own platform cost modelling and FinOps governance.
• Align with enterprise architecture to ensure consistency.
• Translate architectural direction into implementable engineering guidance.
• Design data ingestion architecture (batch, micro-batch, streaming).
• Define architecture for semantic layer and self-serve analytics.

Skills

Databricks platform

Unity Catalog

Delta Lake

Spark

Databricks SQL

Cloud-native architecture

CI/CD pipelines

Architecture governance

Data security

Communication with stakeholders

Tools

SAP BW

Datasphere

S/4HANA data flows

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Burberry is seeking a Data Platform Architect to own the enterprise data platform architecture, ensuring scalability, cost efficiency and security. This role leads architectural standards, governance and design decisions across cross-functional squads, guiding Data Platform Engineers and Data Engineers.

The candidate will drive the platform roadmap, establish non-functional requirements, and collaborate with security and governance teams to ensure compliant, resilient data capabilities that