Senior Data Architect - Azure & Databricks Lead

Albany Beck; Greater London; Vor Ort; GBP 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Albany Beck, a UK-based management consultancy, is seeking a Senior Data Architect to act as the independent technical authority on a major data transformation programme in Wealth and Financial Services. You will assess the current landscape and define the future-state architecture to support long‑term analytics and AI ambitions.

You will review the Azure and Databricks ecosystems, evaluate ingestion patterns, data flows, and governance capabilities, and translate complex challenges into

Qualifikationen

• Significant experience in Data Architecture, Enterprise Data Architecture or Solution Architecture roles.
• Strong Azure and Databricks expertise.
• Experience designing modern cloud-based data platforms and lakehouse architectures.
• Strong understanding of data ingestion, integration, lineage, metadata and governance frameworks.
• Experience assessing and defining target operating and architecture models.
• Ability to work across strategic architecture discussions and detailed technical design reviews.
• Experience within Financial Services, Wealth Management, Asset Management or Banking environments is highly desirable.

Aufgaben

• Assess and define current and target-state data architecture.
• Review the existing Azure and Databricks ecosystem and provide architectural recommendations.
• Evaluate ingestion patterns, integration approaches and data flows across the platform.
• Assess data layers, models and architecture standards to identify opportunities for simplification and optimisation.
• Review data lineage, governance and metadata capabilities.
• Identify duplication, inefficiencies and scalability challenges across the data landscape.
• Define architecture principles and standards that support future growth.
• Ensure the platform can effectively support analytics, reporting and AI initiatives.
• Provide architectural leadership and guidance to engineering, governance and programme teams.
• Translate complex technical challenges into practical recommendations for senior stakeholders.

Kenntnisse

Data architecture

Enterprise data architecture

Solution architecture

Target operating models

Strategic architecture discussions

Technical design reviews

Analytics & AI

Financial services domain

Tools

Azure

Databricks

Jobbeschreibung

Albany Beck, a UK-based management consultancy, is seeking a Senior Data Architect to act as the independent technical authority on a major data transformation programme in Wealth and Financial Services. You will assess the current landscape and define the future-state architecture to support long‑term analytics and AI ambitions.

You will review the Azure and Databricks ecosystems, evaluate ingestion patterns, data flows, and governance capabilities, and translate complex challenges into