Senior Data Architect

News UK; London Borough of Southwark; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Discounted gym memberships

Bikes for Work

Electric Car scheme

Book discounts

Job summary

News UK Data team is expanding as we grow our data capabilities in London, Sofia, and Bangalore. You will lead senior data architects and analytics engineers while staying hands-on in design, prototyping and execution to accelerate data-powered product growth.

Senior Data Architect responsibilities include guiding the team, maintaining architecture standards and collaborating with BI, advertising and newsroom stakeholders to deliver scalable data solutions and robust data flows.

Qualifications

• Proven technical leadership across multidisciplinary teams.
• End-to-end data solution delivery using BigQuery and GCP.
• Advanced SQL, stored procedures, and data modelling expertise.
• Strong stakeholder engagement across BI, advertising, and newsroom units.
• Clear, effective communication to align onshore/offshore delivery teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance across the team, overseeing scalable, performant, cost-effective data solutions.
• Lead a team of data architects and analytics engineers, setting clear objectives and collaborative ways of working.
• Develop and prototype data solutions hands-on, maintaining direct involvement in coding and execution.
• Maintain data architecture principles, data modelling standards, and quality across projects.
• Collaborate with BI, advertising and newsroom to translate business requirements into robust architectures.
• Design data solutions, data marts, APIs and activation data flows that integrate with CDPs, DMPs, and BI tools like Tableau and Looker.
• Partner with Data Engineering, Data Governance and Data Platforms to ensure secure, enterprise-aligned implementations.

Skills

Technical leadership

BigQuery & GCP

SQL & data modelling

Stakeholder engagement

Documentation & communication

Tools

BigQuery

GCP

Tableau

Looker

Job description

Job Description

Your team:

You will be joining the News UK Data team as we embark on an exciting chapter of data growth. Our teams support the business in broadening data-informed decision making and experiences, collaborating with Agile teams in London, Sofia, and Bangalore responsible for the collection, ingestion, utilisation, and warehousing of data across the business. Together, we enrich our data assets through machine learning and AI to deliver industry-leading insight tools, consumer-facing AI features, and dynamic data products.

Your role:

As a Senior Data Architect, you will serve as a senior technical leader to bring clarity, consistency, and efficiency across our data organisation. You will lead and mentor a team of data architects and analytics engineers while staying hands-on with solution design, prototyping, and execution to accelerate data-powered product growth.

Day to day you will:

• Provide technical guidance across the team, overseeing the design and implementation of scalable, performant, and cost-effective data solutions.
• Lead a team of data architects and analytics engineers, setting clear objectives and establishing consistent, collaborative ways of working.
• Develop and prototype data solutions hands-on, maintaining direct involvement in coding and technical execution to ensure high-quality delivery.
• Maintain data architecture principles, standards, data modelling techniques, and quality benchmarks across all projects.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders across business intelligence, advertising, and newsroom teams to translate business requirements into robust technical architectures.
• Design tailored data solutions, data marts, APIs, and activation data flows that integrate seamlessly with CDPs, DMPs, and BI tools like Tableau and Looker.
• Partner with Data Engineering, Data Governance, and Data Platforms teams to ensure efficient, secure solution implementation aligned with enterprise standards.

What we're looking for from you:

• Demonstrable technical leadership skills, with a track record of developing talent, managing multidisciplinary technical teams, and fostering accountability.
• Proven technical background in end-to-end data solution delivery using BigQuery and GCP products, backed by advanced SQL proficiency, stored procedures, and data modelling expertise.
• Strategic problem-solving abilities to translate complex business needs into scalable, maintainable data structures and streamlined workflows.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, demonstrated by your ability to build trusted relationships across business intelligence, advertising, and newsroom units.
• Clear and effective communication skills, enabling you to produce high-quality requirements and documentation that eliminate cross-timezone friction between onshore and offshore delivery teams.

News UK is one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multi-format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose, we exist to promote a fair society, freedom of speech and a little bit of fun. Rethinking continually the business of storytelling, we represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter.

At News UK, we embrace a hybrid work model, currently requiring a minimum of three days per week in the office. This approach fosters collaboration, innovation, and team spirit within our workspace. Certain roles may necessitate additional in-office days; please discuss this with your recruiter for specific requirements.

Life at News

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter most. To ensure these stories resonate with as broad an audience as possible, it is essential that our organisation reflects the diversity of the people we reach. Whether through age, gender, ethnicity, disability, social class or sexuality, we are committed to representing the rich variety of voices that make up our society. And we champion a culture where everyone has the opportunity to contribute and thrive as we continue to innovate and drive long term sustainable growth. This is done through our Diversity Strategy.

At News UK, we take pride in our exceptional employee-led networks that bring together individuals with shared interests and create a vibrant sense of community. We believe our networks play a vital role in fostering a collaborative and supportive work culture at News UK. Groups that we support include the African & Caribbean Network, Parents and Carers, and LGBTQ+ group News Is Out, and the Apprentice Society.

Benefits

Some of our benefits include:

• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly in person/ virtual exercise classes
• ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme
• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
• Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
• Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, as well as an extra anniversary day off
• Up to 3 paid volunteering days per year to support causes you care about

We are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process. If you require reasonable adjustments due to a disability or health condition at any stage of your application or interview, please let us know. You can contact us at [e-mail] to discuss how we can support you to perform at your best.