Senior Data Architect: Lead Cloud Data Platforms & Governance

FSP; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Competitive salary

Benefits package

Job summary

FSP is recruiting a Data Architect to join its Data and AI practice in the UK. You will define, design and govern sophisticated data architectures across client environments, collaborating with engineers and principal consultants to translate business challenges into scalable data solutions.

You will lead cloud-native data platform design, establish governance standards and guide cross-functional teams, with emphasis on medallion architectures and analytics-ready data models.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience defining and delivering data architectures in large-scale, enterprise or transformation programmes.
• Proven expertise designing cloud-native data platforms, including MS Fabric, Databricks and AWS.
• Strong background in data modelling methodologies (Kimball, 3NF, Data Vault, dimensional modelling).
• Experience with modern data transformation approaches — familiarity with analytics engineering principles is beneficial.
• Deep understanding of data platforms, orchestration, metadata management, CI/CD and architectural components such as DevOps.
• Demonstrable experience architecting solutions using medallion architectures, including curated gold-layer models designed for analytics consumption.
• Strong knowledge of unity catalog (or similar), data governance, lineage, cataloguing and metadata-driven design.

Responsibilities

• Define, own and evolve enterprise grade data architectures, ensuring scalability, sustainability and alignment with client objectives.
• Lead the design of cloud based data platforms, semantic layers, integration patterns and data models.
• Establish governance standards, frameworks and principles that guide engineering teams.
• Act as a trusted technical partner to clients, shaping their data strategy, advising senior stakeholders and articulating architecture decisions with clarity and confidence.
• Create and enforce architectural guidelines, including modelling standards, reference architectures, blueprints and reusable components to ensure consistent delivery quality.
• Stay current with emerging data platform technologies, architectural patterns and cloud-native capabilities.
• Proactively share insights and drive innovation across the wider engineering team.

Skills

Data architecture

Cloud-native architectures

Data modelling

Stakeholder communication

Data governance

Analytics engineering

DevOps/CI-CD

Leadership

Cost optimisation

Enterprise architecture

Tools

Databricks

AWS

Microsoft Fabric

Azure Purview

Collibra

Power BI models

Job description

FSP is recruiting a Data Architect to join its Data and AI practice in the UK. You will define, design and govern sophisticated data architectures across client environments, collaborating with engineers and principal consultants to translate business challenges into scalable data solutions.

You will lead cloud-native data platform design, establish governance standards and guide cross-functional teams, with emphasis on medallion architectures and analytics-ready data models.