Senior Data Architect — Commercial Data Platform

Youngs Employment Services; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 95,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus scheme

Job summary

Youngs Employment Services is seeking a seasoned Data Architect to own and evolve commercial data architecture across the UK, US, and Europe. You will define data contracts, hierarchies, and cross-market standards to enable pricing, revenue management, and marketing analytics.

The role requires strong modelling, cloud platform expertise (AWS/Azure/GCP), Snowflake experience, and collaboration with senior stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable data products.

Qualifications

• Strong data architecture experience in a commercial environment where data informs revenue, pricing, trading, or marketing decisions.
• Excellent conceptual, logical, and physical data modelling skills, including dimensional and event-based approaches.
• Experience with modern cloud data platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.), ELT patterns, APIs, events, streaming, batch integration, and data contracts.
• Experience with Snowflake would be highly beneficial.
• Practical SQL, Python, and transformation tooling experience, ideally including dbt.
• Experience with consumer, digital, and transactional data at scale, including web and app analytics and GA4.
• Understanding of data design for ML, AI, or automated decisioning, including trusted definitions, controlled access, and decision/outcome capture.
• Knowledge of privacy and security by design across multiple jurisdictions, including GDPR and related data protection requirements.
• Confidence influencing senior stakeholders and explaining architecture decisions in business terms.
• Experience in entertainment, travel, hospitality, retail, or another business where price, demand, and inventory interact dynamically.
• Snowflake and AWS experience, with exposure to AI or model-serving environments such as SageMaker or Snowflake Cortex.
• Customer data platforms, identity resolution, consent management, experimentation, or feedback-loop design.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the target data architecture for commercial data across the UK, US, and Europe.
• Define common business entities, definitions, hierarchies, keys, and data contracts across source systems and markets.
• Architect data products that support pricing, revenue management, marketing measurement, forecasting, and trading.
• Design consumer, digital, financial, and operational data models that connect behaviour, investment, sales, and performance.
• Embed privacy, security, consent, retention, and cross-border data requirements into the architecture from the outset.
• Define how analytics, ML, AI services, and agents access structured data safely and consistently.
• Produce data models, flows, lineage, architecture decision records, and reusable design patterns for engineering and business teams.
• Review and assure designs, challenge where needed, and represent Data in cross-team architecture forums.
• Set standards, produce architecture documentation, and provide assurance before engineering delivery begins.

Job description

Youngs Employment Services is seeking a seasoned Data Architect to own and evolve commercial data architecture across the UK, US, and Europe. You will define data contracts, hierarchies, and cross-market standards to enable pricing, revenue management, and marketing analytics.

The role requires strong modelling, cloud platform expertise (AWS/Azure/GCP), Snowflake experience, and collaboration with senior stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable data products.