Enterprise Data Platform Architect — Hybrid & Databricks

Formula.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Bonus scheme

Job summary

Formula. is seeking an experienced Data Platform Architect to own the enterprise data platform architecture for a globally recognised consumer brand.

You will define standards, guardrails and roadmaps in partnership with Solution Architects, Data Governance and Cyber Security to keep the platform scalable, secure and cost-efficient. This specialist role sits in a central architecture function, offering hybrid working (4 days/week) from a London office and a clear path to shape AI and analytics

Qualifications

• 7 to 10+ years' experience in data platform architecture, data engineering or cloud data infrastructure.
• Deep expertise in Databricks (Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, Spark, Databricks SQL) or an equivalent Lakehouse platform, including administration, cost management and performance optimisation.
• Strong understanding of cloud native architecture principles, cost models and CI/CD pipelines.
• Proven experience implementing data security including encryption, RBAC, column and row level security and data masking.
• Experience with SAP data landscapes is highly desirable.
• Experience defining architectural standards that engineering teams implement, comfortable setting direction without hands on delivery.
• Experience working within a centralised architecture function that engages flexibly with delivery squads.
• Strong communication skills, able to translate architectural decisions for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Hybrid working (4 days/week) from a London office.

Responsibilities

• Own the platform's technical architecture, including compute and storage design, ingestion frameworks, access control, performance tuning and capacity planning.
• Define and maintain architectural standards and guardrails covering naming conventions, environment management, deployment pipelines, partitioning strategies and cost optimisation.
• Own platform cost modelling and FinOps governance, identifying optimisation opportunities and defining cost allocation patterns.
• Design data ingestion architecture across batch, micro-batch and streaming, with clear boundaries for system to system integration.
• Define the architecture for the semantic layer and self-serve analytics infrastructure.
• Define non-functional standards covering resilience, backup and restore, disaster recovery, observability and operational readiness.
• Define platform security and privacy architecture in partnership with Cyber Security and Data Governance, including PII handling, access recertification and audit logging.
• Own the data platform roadmap from an architectural perspective, including legacy system transition planning and platform maturation.
• Represent data platform considerations in enterprise architecture governance forums.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of design decisions, patterns, standards and trade offs.

Tools

Databricks

Delta Lake

Spark

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Formula. is seeking an experienced Data Platform Architect to own the enterprise data platform architecture for a globally recognised consumer brand.

You will define standards, guardrails and roadmaps in partnership with Solution Architects, Data Governance and Cyber Security to keep the platform scalable, secure and cost-efficient. This specialist role sits in a central architecture function, offering hybrid working (4 days/week) from a London office and a clear path to shape AI and analytics