Data Solutions Architect

YourCode - Award Winning IT & Digital Consultancy; West Yorkshire; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working from Leeds-based office

Ownership of customer solutions

Career progression

Varied customer projects

Job summary

YourCode Recruitment is recruiting an experienced Data Solutions Architect for an MSP based in Leeds. The role combines Microsoft Purview, Azure data architecture, technical consultancy, pre-sales and project delivery, with ownership from discovery to delivery.

You'll work with a varied portfolio of customers, ensuring governance and security across data environments while delivering hands-on implementations and advisory support to customers and internal teams.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Solutions Architect, Data Architect, Azure Architect or Technical Consultant.
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Purview.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Azure and cloud data architecture.
• Experience designing, scoping and delivering technical projects for external customers.
• Understanding of data governance, classification, metadata and data lineage.
• Strong customer-facing communication and consultancy skills.
• Ability to combine solution design with hands-on technical implementation.
• Comfortable participating in pre-sales, scoping calls and technical workshops.
• Desirable MSP, Microsoft Partner or IT consultancy exposure.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver Microsoft Purview and Azure data solutions for customers.
• Lead technical discovery sessions, customer workshops and requirements gathering.
• Scope projects, recommend solutions and produce technical designs.
• Take ownership of projects from initial scoping through to successful delivery.
• Implement Microsoft Purview solutions across data governance, classification, cataloguing and lineage.
• Work directly with customers, remotely and on-site, to deliver scoped technical work.
• Support pre-sales discussions, technical proposals and solution recommendations.
• Collaborate with internal engineering and delivery teams.
• Advise customers on Microsoft cloud technologies, data governance and information security.

Skills

Microsoft Purview

Azure Data Architecture

Pre-sales

Project delivery

Customer-facing consultancy

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Lake

Azure SQL

Job description

Data Solutions Architect – Microsoft Purview / Azure

Employment: Permanent, Full-Time

YourCode Recruitment is recruiting an experienced Data Solutions Architect for an established IT Managed Service Provider (MSP) based in Leeds.

This is a hands-on, client-facing role combining Microsoft Purview, Azure Data Architecture, technical consultancy, pre-sales and project delivery.

You'll work with a varied portfolio of customers, helping them design, implement and improve their Microsoft data environments, with particular emphasis on data governance, security and Microsoft Purview.

Unlike a purely strategic architecture position, this role offers genuine ownership of customer projects, from initial discovery and technical scoping through to hands-on implementation and delivery.

The role is approximately 70% customer project delivery and 30% pre-sales, technical scoping and consultancy.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and deliver Microsoft Purview and Azure data solutions for customers.
• Lead technical discovery sessions, customer workshops and requirements gathering.
• Scope projects, recommend solutions and produce technical designs.
• Take ownership of projects from initial scoping through to successful delivery.
• Implement Microsoft Purview solutions across data governance, classification, cataloguing and lineage.
• Work directly with customers, remotely and on-site, to deliver scoped technical work.
• Support pre-sales discussions, technical proposals and solution recommendations.
• Collaborate with internal engineering and delivery teams.
• Advise customers on Microsoft cloud technologies, data governance and information security.
• Build strong customer relationships and act as a trusted technical consultant.

What We're Looking For

• Experience as a Solutions Architect, Data Architect, Azure Architect or Technical Consultant.
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Purview.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Azure and cloud data architecture.
• Experience designing, scoping and delivering technical projects for external customers.
• Understanding of data governance, classification, metadata and data lineage.
• Strong customer-facing communication and consultancy skills.
• Ability to combine solution design with hands-on technical implementation.
• Comfortable participating in pre-sales, scoping calls and technical workshops.

Highly Desirable:

• Previous MSP, Microsoft Partner or IT consultancy experience.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake or Azure SQL.
• Experience with Microsoft Purview Information Protection, DLP or sensitivity labels.

What's on Offer?

• Hybrid working from a Leeds-based office.
• A varied mix of customer projects and technical challenges.
• Approximately 70% project delivery and 30% pre-sales/scoping.
• Genuine ownership of customer solutions from design through to delivery.
• Opportunities for career progression and professional development.

Data Solutions Architect – Microsoft Purview / Azure