Lead Data Architect - Hybrid, Data Fabric & AI Platforms

Energy Jobline CVL; Farnborough; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Progression opportunities

Job summary

Hexwired Recruitment has partnered with a leading engineering and technology business delivering cutting-edge solutions across secure environments, AI enablement and next-data platforms. They are seeking a Lead Data Architect to join their team in Farnborough, with hybrid working on offer.

You will own the Data Fabric architecture, set governance standards and guide engineering and data teams to design scalable, secure data solutions across cloud, on-prem and hybrid environments.

Qualifications

• Strong background in Data Architecture or Data Platform Engineering.
• Experience owning architecture across complex enterprise programmes.
• Knowledge of cloud, on-prem and hybrid infrastructure environments.
• Experience with data governance, metadata, lineage and lifecycle management.
• Understanding of scalable integration patterns, APIs and event-driven architectures.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Strong stakeholder communication and technical leadership skills.
• Experience working within secure, regulated or mission-critical environments is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the end-to-end Data Fabric architecture.
• Define architecture roadmaps, standards, governance and best practices.
• Lead data integration and interoperability strategies across environments.
• Design scalable data processing, storage, metadata and governance solutions.
• Establish architecture patterns and technical guardrails for engineering teams.
• Lead architectural assurance and governance activities.
• Support secure deployments across cloud, hybrid and on-prem environments.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across projects.

Skills

Data Architecture

Data Platform Engineering

Architecture ownership

Cloud & on-premise

Governance & metadata

Leadership

Stakeholder communication

Secure/mission-critical envs

Job description

Hexwired Recruitment has partnered with a leading engineering and technology business delivering cutting-edge solutions across secure environments, AI enablement and next-data platforms. They are seeking a Lead Data Architect to join their team in Farnborough, with hybrid working on offer.

You will own the Data Fabric architecture, set governance standards and guide engineering and data teams to design scalable, secure data solutions across cloud, on-prem and hybrid environments.