Senior Data Architect - Cloud Analytics & Platform

La Fosse; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 54,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance

Bonus 5-10%

Job summary

La Fosse is seeking an experienced Data Architect to shape enterprise data landscapes for a leading UK organisation undergoing data transformation. You will design data platforms, governance, and analytics capabilities to enable informed decision-making.

You will collaborate with executive stakeholders, architects, engineers, and partners to translate business needs into scalable data solutions, leveraging cloud tech such as Azure, AWS, GCP and Databricks.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing enterprise data architectures and modern analytics platforms.
• Strong knowledge of cloud data technologies (Azure, AWS, GCP) and Databricks.
• Experience with data governance, data quality and architecture best practice.
• Experience designing data warehouses, semantic models and reporting solutions.
• Excellent stakeholder management and ability to influence senior leaders.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams and external delivery partners.
• Balanced approach to technical excellence with commercial priorities.
• Familiarity with BI visualization platforms such as Tableau or Power BI.
• Knowledge of MDM and data quality initiatives.
• Experience developing enterprise data strategies and technology roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Design enterprise-wide data architecture and target-state data platforms.
• Define and govern data architecture standards, principles and best practices.
• Lead architecture reviews and provide technical assurance for data solutions.
• Partner with senior stakeholders to translate business challenges into scalable data solutions.
• Design data models, reporting architectures and analytics platforms for BI and insight.
• Evaluate build vs. buy decisions balancing cost, value and risk.
• Support selection and implementation of reporting, analytics and visualization tools.
• Mentor Data Architects, Engineers and Analysts to promote technical excellence.
• Drive continuous improvement across data platforms and analytics services.
• Collaborate with third-party partners and internal delivery teams for project success.

Skills

Enterprise data architecture

Cloud data platforms

Stakeholder management

Data governance

Data modelling

Analytics & reporting

Cross-functional collaboration

BI tools experience

Tools

Azure Data Factory

Power BI

AWS Glue

Databricks

Tableau / Qlik

Microsoft Fabric

Job description

La Fosse is seeking an experienced Data Architect to shape enterprise data landscapes for a leading UK organisation undergoing data transformation. You will design data platforms, governance, and analytics capabilities to enable informed decision-making.

You will collaborate with executive stakeholders, architects, engineers, and partners to translate business needs into scalable data solutions, leveraging cloud tech such as Azure, AWS, GCP and Databricks.