Data Solution Architect

JR United Kingdom; Coventry; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Data Solution Architect and lead the transformation of cloud data for a top UK utilities provider. In this hands-on role, you'll deliver modern cloud-native data platforms, work with cutting-edge technologies like Azure and Databricks, and shape enterprise architecture across SCADA, IoT, and AI/ML systems. This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact on real-world infrastructure and data innovation, collaborating with diverse teams to promote resilience and governance in data management.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in unstructured data migration and transformation.
• Strong background in data governance and security practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead integration of SCADA, SAP, and IoT data sources.
• Design scalable data platforms using Azure and Databricks.

Skills

Data Migration

Data Governance

Data Modelling

CI/CD

DevSecOps

AI/ML Integration

Tools

Azure

Databricks

Purview

Informatica

Power BI

Terraform

Job description

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Location: Coventry (Hybrid – 3 days onsite/week)

Start Date: ASAP

Clearance: Right to work in the UK

The Role

We are hiring 2x experienced Data Solution Architects to lead a critical cloud data transformation programme for a top UK utilities company. You’ll work with petabyte-scale real-time and historical datasets from systems such as SCADA, SAP, and IoT telemetry.

Your primary focus will be delivering modern cloud-native data platforms across Azure, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, with governance and streaming at scale. This is a hands-on architecture role—driving design, implementation, and platform optimisation.

Why Join?

• Make an impact on real-world infrastructure and data innovation
• Shape enterprise architecture in SCADA, IoT, AI/ML, and telemetry systems
• Lead critical platform design across Microsoft Azure and Databricks ecosystem

Key Responsibilities

• Lead integrations across SCADA, SAP PM, telemetry, GIS, APIs, and legacy data sources
• Govern structured/unstructured data using Purview, Unity Catalog, Profisee, Informatica
• Implement real-time streaming with Event Hub, Kafka, IoT Hub, and Kusto/ADX
• Design data platforms with Delta Lake, ADLS Gen2, Cosmos DB, Synapse, Fabric OneLake
• Define compute, storage, security, and networking architecture at scale
• Enable AI/ML integration pipelines and analytics layers with Power BI, Databricks ML
• Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, and stakeholders across disciplines
• Promote DevSecOps, governance, resilience, and observability across the ecosystem

Core Skills & Experience

• Strong unstructured data migration and transformation experience
• Data modelling, mapping, profiling, governance, and security
• Tools: Purview, Profisee, Informatica, Unity Catalog
• Strong CI/CD and IaC (Terraform/Bicep, Azure DevOps)
• Zero Trust architecture, RBAC, VNet, Private Endpoint, ExpressRoute
• HADR, cost optimisation, logging, monitoring, and performance tuning