Data Solutions Architect

Spaulding Ridge; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Spaulding Ridge seeks a Data Solutions Architect to lead strategy, architecture and delivery of enterprise data/analytics solutions. You will guide data roadmaps, evaluate options, and help clients modernise data environments with trusted data products and reusable engineering capabilities.

You will mentor teams, run architecture reviews, and drive workshops to influence strategic decisions across projects.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in data and analytics delivering enterprise-scale platforms.
• Proven leadership of technical workstreams and cross-team decisions.
• Align architecture with business strategy and roadmaps.
• Experience in pre-sales and client-facing proposals.
• Deep expertise in data warehouses, lakes, lakehouse and analytics ecosystems.
• Knowledge of data governance, metadata, privacy and compliance.
• Data product thinking and scalable, reusable models.
• Cloud-native data platforms with Snowflake and multi-environment deployments.
• Strong knowledge of Azure and/or GCP services for data and security.
• Experience with BigQuery, Databricks, Synapse, Redshift.
• ELT/ETL, real-time and event-driven data pipelines, APIs.
• Experience with Fivetran, Workato, Boomi, Airbyte integrations.
• dbt, governance, testing and deployment standards.
• DataOps practices for automation and observability.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and governance of data warehouses, lakes and analytics ecosystems.
• Architect cloud-native data platforms covering security, cost and replication.
• Define scalable integration patterns: batch, real-time, API, ELT/ETL.
• Establish standards for analytics engineering and CI/CD.
• Embed metadata, lineage, privacy and data quality controls.
• Lead workstreams, mentor engineers, prepare proposals and briefs.

Skills

Data architecture

Cloud platforms

Snowflake

dbt

Data governance

Leadership

Pre-sales

Client advisory

Tools

Snowflake

Azure

GCP

BigQuery

Databricks

Synapse

Redshift

Fivetran

Workato

Boomi

Airbyte

Terraform

Python

SQL

Job description

Spaulding Ridge is an advisory and IT implementation firm. We help global organizations get financial clarity into the complex, daily sales, and operational decisions that impact profitable revenue generations, efficient operational performance, and reliable financial management.

At Spaulding Ridge, we believe all business is personal. Core to our values is our relationships with our clients, our business partners, our team, and the global community. Our employees dedicate their time to helping our clients transform their business, from strategy through implementation and business transformation.

As a Data Solutions Architect , you will lead the strategy, architecture and delivery of enterprise-scale data and analytics solutions for our clients. Working across data architecture, software engineering, cloud platforms, analytics engineering and client advisory, you will translate business priorities into secure, scalable, well-governed and cost-effective solutions.

You will partner with executive stakeholders, business leaders and technical teams to define data roadmaps and target-state architectures, evaluate technology options and guide delivery from proposal and estimation through to implementation, enablement and support. You will help clients modernise fragmented data environments and establish trusted data products, intuitive analytics experiences and reusable engineering capabilities that deliver measurable business value.

This role also provides technical leadership across multiple projects and teams. You will mentor engineers, facilitate architecture reviews and technical workshops, establish standards and best practices, and act as a trusted adviser who can challenge assumptions, identify opportunities and influence strategic decisions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and governance of modern data warehouses, data lakes, lakehouse platforms, semantic layers, dimensional models, master data strategies and analytics ecosystems.
• Architect cloud-native data platforms—particularly Snowflake—covering performance, workload management, security, access controls, cost governance, multi-environment deployment, data sharing, replication and disaster recovery.
• Define scalable batch, real-time, event-driven, API, orchestration and ELT/ETL integration patterns using modern data integration technologies.
• Establish standards for analytics engineering, dbt, the modern data stack, DataOps, testing, documentation, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, observability and automated deployment.
• Embed metadata, lineage, privacy, security, regulatory compliance, monitoring and data quality controls into platform and data product designs.
• Lead technical workstreams, mentor engineers, prepare estimates and technical proposals, and deliver client presentations, executive briefings, architecture reviews and workshops.

Travel:

Travel may be required for client engagements, workshops, key stakeholder meetings and internal team events.

Qualifications:

Experience & Leadership

• 6+ years’ experience in data and analytics, including the design and delivery of enterprise-scale data platforms and analytics solutions.
• Proven success in leading technical workstreams, mentoring engineers and driving architectural decisions across multiple projects and teams.
• Ability to align architecture with business strategy, define data roadmaps with executive and cross-functional stakeholders, and translate requirements into scalable solutions.
• Experience in pre-sales, solution estimation, technical proposal development and client-facing presentations.
• Deep expertise in modern data architectures, including data warehouses, data lakes, lakehouse platforms and analytics ecosystems.
• Extensive experience in enterprise and dimensional data modelling, semantic layers, master data strategies and data governance frameworks.
• Strong understanding of data product thinking and the creation of scalable, reusable and business-oriented models, standards and development frameworks.
• Advanced experience in designing and operating cloud-native data platforms, particularly Snowflake, including performance and workload management, security and access controls, cost governance and FinOps, multi-environment deployments, data sharing, replication and disaster recovery.
• Strong knowledge of Azure and/or Google Cloud Platform services across data, storage, networking, security and monitoring.
• Experience with BigQuery, Databricks, Synapse, Redshift or similar platforms is highly desirable.
• Expertise in scalable enterprise ELT/ETL, data integration, real-time and batch processing, event-driven systems, APIs and orchestration patterns.
• Experience with Fivetran, Workato, Boomi, Airbyte or similar integration platforms.
• Ability to evaluate technology options and define target-state architectures based on business and technical requirements.
• Advanced experience with dbt and enterprise-scale modern data stack architectures, including framework design, governance, testing, documentation and deployment standards.
• Ability to establish DataOps practices that improve automation, quality and observability across data pipelines.

Software Engineering & DevOps

• Strong software engineering background, with proficiency in Python and SQL and knowledge of architectural principles, design patterns, testing frameworks and engineering best practices.
• Experience with CI/CD, automated deployment and Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform.
• Experience in defining engineering standards and driving operational excellence across data platforms.

Data Governance, Security & Quality

• Strong understanding of data governance, metadata management, lineage, privacy, security and regulatory compliance.
• Experience in defining policies, enterprise data quality controls, observability solutions and monitoring frameworks that support reliable, trusted and well-governed data assets.

Customer & Consulting Skills

• Strong consulting mindset, with the ability to challenge requirements, identify opportunities and propose innovative solutions.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with experience delivering architecture reviews, executive briefings and technical workshops, and building trusted adviser relationships that influence strategic decisions.

Spaulding Ridge’s Commitment to an Inclusive Workplace

When we engage the expertise, insights, and creativity of people from all walks of life, we become a better organization, we deliver superior services to clients, and we transform our communities and world for the better.

At Spaulding Ridge, we believe our team should reflect the rich diversity of society and we take seriously the responsibility to cultivate a workplace where every bandmate feels accepted, respected, and valued for who they are. We do this by creating a culture of trust and belonging, through practices and policies that support inclusion, and through our employee led Employee Resource Groups (ERGs): CRE (Cultural Race and Ethnicity), Women Elevate, PROUD and Mental Wellness Alliance.

The company is committed to offering Equal Employment Opportunity and to providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with Spaulding Ridge and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to our VP of Human Resources, Cara Halladay ( [e-mail] ). Requests for reasonable accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability.

As set forth in Spaulding Ridge’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy,we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.

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