Senior Data Architect - Lead Scalable Data Solutions

News UK; London Borough of Southwark; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Discounted gym memberships

Bikes for Work

Electric Car scheme

Book discounts

Job summary

News UK Data team is expanding as we grow our data capabilities in London, Sofia, and Bangalore. You will lead senior data architects and analytics engineers while staying hands-on in design, prototyping and execution to accelerate data-powered product growth.

Senior Data Architect responsibilities include guiding the team, maintaining architecture standards and collaborating with BI, advertising and newsroom stakeholders to deliver scalable data solutions and robust data flows.

Qualifications

• Proven technical leadership across multidisciplinary teams.
• End-to-end data solution delivery using BigQuery and GCP.
• Advanced SQL, stored procedures, and data modelling expertise.
• Strong stakeholder engagement across BI, advertising, and newsroom units.
• Clear, effective communication to align onshore/offshore delivery teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance across the team, overseeing scalable, performant, cost-effective data solutions.
• Lead a team of data architects and analytics engineers, setting clear objectives and collaborative ways of working.
• Develop and prototype data solutions hands-on, maintaining direct involvement in coding and execution.
• Maintain data architecture principles, data modelling standards, and quality across projects.
• Collaborate with BI, advertising and newsroom to translate business requirements into robust architectures.
• Design data solutions, data marts, APIs and activation data flows that integrate with CDPs, DMPs, and BI tools like Tableau and Looker.
• Partner with Data Engineering, Data Governance and Data Platforms to ensure secure, enterprise-aligned implementations.

Skills

Technical leadership

BigQuery & GCP

SQL & data modelling

Stakeholder engagement

Documentation & communication

Tools

BigQuery

GCP

Tableau

Looker

Job description

News UK Data team is expanding as we grow our data capabilities in London, Sofia, and Bangalore. You will lead senior data architects and analytics engineers while staying hands-on in design, prototyping and execution to accelerate data-powered product growth.

Senior Data Architect responsibilities include guiding the team, maintaining architecture standards and collaborating with BI, advertising and newsroom stakeholders to deliver scalable data solutions and robust data flows.