Hybrid Senior Data Architect, Databricks & Strategy Lead

Cognizant; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant Consulting in London seeks a Consulting Senior Manager - Principal Databricks Data Architect to lead transforming a large data estate into a modern, trusted asset.

You will define target-state architecture and platform strategy, govern data products and data contracts, and present roadmaps to senior stakeholders including CDO/CTO/CIO. This hybrid role requires SC clearance and UK residency, with flexible office-based and client-site work.

Qualifications

• Experience designing target-state enterprise architectures for large data estates.
• Hands-on experience with the Databricks Lakehouse Platform.
• Knowledge of medallion architecture, data ontologies and data contracts.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and secure approvals.

Responsibilities

• Define target-state data architecture and ontology across the data estate.
• Direct data integration, engineering and pipeline standards.
• Present roadmaps, investment cases and risk positions to steering groups.
• Provide senior technical leadership across architecture review boards.
• Coach and mentor engineering teams on platform best practices.

Skills

Data architecture

Data governance

Stakeholder management

Security clearance

Platform leadership

Tools

Databricks Lakehouse Platform

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

Apache Iceberg

Job description

Cognizant Consulting in London seeks a Consulting Senior Manager - Principal Databricks Data Architect to lead transforming a large data estate into a modern, trusted asset.

You will define target-state architecture and platform strategy, govern data products and data contracts, and present roadmaps to senior stakeholders including CDO/CTO/CIO. This hybrid role requires SC clearance and UK residency, with flexible office-based and client-site work.