Junior Data Solution Architect: Azure & Databricks

Halfords Careers; Redditch; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Car allowance

Annual discretionary bonus

Pension

Life assurance

25 days annual leave + bank holidays +

Job summary

Halfords is seeking a Junior Data Solution Architect to translate business needs into robust data architectures. You will collaborate across Data Architects, Data Engineers and delivery teams to ensure secure, scalable data solutions that align with enterprise standards and governance.

You’ll gain hands-on experience with Azure and Databricks while contributing to transformation programmes spanning retail, digital, loyalty, and supply chain data landscapes.

Qualifications

• Experience with modern data platforms, Azure and Databricks essential.
• Strong data modelling, ETL/ELT, and data pipeline design.
• Ability to translate requirements into technical designs and artefacts.
• Knowledge of data governance, security, privacy and quality principles.

Responsibilities

• Support design of data-centric solutions, creating data flows, architecture artefacts and models.
• Translate business/data requirements into structured designs aligned to standards.
• Collaborate with data engineers and architects to design ingestion, transformation and consumption patterns.
• Contribute to data modelling, lineage, ownership and transformation requirements.
• Review APIs, ETL/ELT processes and integration designs for non-functional alignment.
• Support governance through documentation and design-review participation.
• Identify data quality risks and architectural challenges throughout delivery.

Skills

Azure

Databricks

Data modelling

ETL/ELT

Data pipelines

Architecture artefacts

Governance

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Azure Databricks

Job description

Halfords is seeking a Junior Data Solution Architect to translate business needs into robust data architectures. You will collaborate across Data Architects, Data Engineers and delivery teams to ensure secure, scalable data solutions that align with enterprise standards and governance.

You’ll gain hands-on experience with Azure and Databricks while contributing to transformation programmes spanning retail, digital, loyalty, and supply chain data landscapes.