Data Platform Architect for Enterprise Analytics & Security

Burberry; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Burberry is seeking a Data Platform Architect to own the enterprise data platform architecture, setting standards for compute/storage, ingestion, access control, and capacity planning from London HQ.

The role focuses on scalable, secure, and cost-efficient design, aligning with enterprise architecture and guiding Data Platform Engineers through implementable, standards-backed solutions.

Qualifications

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• 7–10+ years in data platform architecture, data engineering, or cloud data infrastructure.
• Deep expertise in Databricks (Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, Spark, Databricks SQL) or equivalent Lakehouse platforms.

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, environment management, deployment pipelines, partitioning strategies, and cost optimisation patterns).
• Own platform cost modelling and FinOps governance, defining cost allocation patterns and identifying optimisation opportunities.
• Align with the Data Senior Solution Architect and Data Solution Architects to ensure consistency with enterprise data architecture and models.
• Translate architectural direction into practical engineering guidance for Data Platform Engineers and Data Engineers, ensuring teams can implement within defined standards without requiring bespoke architectural intervention for standard use cases.
• Design data ingestion architecture (batch, micro-batch, and streaming) with clear boundaries for system-to-system integration.
• Define architecture for the semantic layer and self-serve analytics infrastructure.
• Provide input to data squads for complex data products and support Data Product Managers and Data Engineers where architectural complexity requires it.
• Ensure architecture supports emerging requirements, including agentic AI data infrastructure, MLOps productionisation, and advanced analytics.
• Collaborate with the Senior Manager, Data Platform Engineering to ensure platform operations are aligned to the target architecture.

Skills

Architecture governance

Cloud-native architecture

Cost modelling

Data security

Stakeholder communication

Vendor evaluation

Observability

Disaster recovery

Data lifecycle management

Tools

Databricks

CI/CD pipelines

SAP BW

S/4HANA data flows

Delta Lake

Job description

Burberry is seeking a Data Platform Architect to own the enterprise data platform architecture, setting standards for compute/storage, ingestion, access control, and capacity planning from London HQ.

The role focuses on scalable, secure, and cost-efficient design, aligning with enterprise architecture and guiding Data Platform Engineers through implementable, standards-backed solutions.