Data Platform Architect - Enterprise Data & Platform

BoF Careers; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Burberry in London is seeking a Data Platform Architect to own the enterprise data platform architecture, ensuring performance, security and cost efficiency while aligning with enterprise standards. This role will shape architectural governance for scalable data initiatives across cross-functional squads.

You will lead ingestion and semantic layer architecture, support MLOps and advanced analytics, and collaborate with senior managers to evolve the platform roadmap, including SAP BW and

Qualifications

• Extensive Databricks and lakehouse experience with cost management and performance.
• Demonstrated ability to define architectural standards and governance.
• Experience in cloud-native architectures and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain the platform's technical architecture, including compute/storage design, ingestion frameworks, access control, performance tuning, and capacity planning.
• Define and maintain architectural standards and guardrails, naming conventions, deployment pipelines, and cost optimisation patterns.
• Own platform cost modelling and FinOps governance, defining cost allocation patterns and identifying optimisation opportunities.
• Align with Data Senior Solution Architect to ensure consistency with enterprise data models.
• Translate architectural direction into practical engineering guidance for Data Platform Engineers.
• Design data ingestion architecture (batch, micro-batch, streaming) with clear boundaries for system integration.
• Define architecture for semantic layer and self-serve analytics infrastructure.
• Provide input to data squads for complex data products and support Data Engineers.
• Ensure architecture supports emerging requirements including agentic AI data infrastructure and MLOps.
• Collaborate with Senior Manager, Data Platform Engineering to align operations with target architecture.
• Own the data platform roadmap and contribute to governance forums.
• Maintain documentation of design decisions, patterns, and trade-offs.
• Define non-functional standards for resilience, DR, observability and operational readiness.

Skills

Databricks

Unity Catalog

Delta Lake

Spark

Databricks SQL

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud-native architecture

Cost models

Data security

Ingestion patterns

SAP Datasphere

Tools

SAP Datasphere

Job description

Burberry in London is seeking a Data Platform Architect to own the enterprise data platform architecture, ensuring performance, security and cost efficiency while aligning with enterprise standards. This role will shape architectural governance for scalable data initiatives across cross-functional squads.

You will lead ingestion and semantic layer architecture, support MLOps and advanced analytics, and collaborate with senior managers to evolve the platform roadmap, including SAP BW and