Senior Data Architect – Hybrid London (Data Modernisation)

WeDoTech; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 135,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

WeDoTech is partnering with a major UK financial services organisation to modernise its data architecture. The Senior Data Architect will shape enterprise-scale data architectures, drive standards and governance, and influence engineering direction across multiple teams.

The role combines strategic architectural thinking with hands-on depth, focusing on scalable data pipelines, batch and streaming processing, and the delivery of data products within a highly regulated environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing and delivering large-scale enterprise data architectures.
• Deep expertise with AWS data ecosystem and related services.
• Strong knowledge of Spark, PySpark and Airflow.
• Proven track record in data transformation, migration or modernisation programmes.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior technical leadership across complex data architecture and transformation initiatives.
• Design and shape enterprise-scale data architectures across AWS.
• Define architectural approaches for large-scale data migration and integration.
• Establish reusable patterns and engineering frameworks across teams.
• Collaborate with engineering to translate designs into deliverables.

Skills

Data architecture

AWS data

Spark

Airflow

Data governance

Stakeholder comms

Tools

AWS Glue

Snowflake

Airflow

Job description

WeDoTech is partnering with a major UK financial services organisation to modernise its data architecture. The Senior Data Architect will shape enterprise-scale data architectures, drive standards and governance, and influence engineering direction across multiple teams.

The role combines strategic architectural thinking with hands-on depth, focusing on scalable data pipelines, batch and streaming processing, and the delivery of data products within a highly regulated environment.