Senior Data Platform Architect - Cloud, Security & FinOps

Burberry; City Of London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Burberry is seeking a Data Platform Architect to own the enterprise data platform architecture in a London-based role. The candidate will define standards, governance, and patterns for compute/storage, ingestion, security, and performance.

Collaboration with cross-functional data squads and senior stakeholders will shape the platform roadmap. The role requires deep Databricks experience, cloud-native thinking, and a proven ability to translate architectural decisions into practical engineering

Qualifications

• 7-10+ years in data platform architecture or cloud data infra.
• Deep Databricks expertise including Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, Spark.
• Experience with SAP BW/Datasphere/S4HANA data flows is desirable.
• Ability to communicate architecture to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience defining architectural standards and governance.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain the platform's technical architecture, including compute/storage design, ingestion frameworks, access control, performance tuning, and capacity planning.
• Define and maintain architectural standards and guardrails (naming conventions, environment management, deployment pipelines, partitioning strategies, and cost optimisation patterns).
• Own platform cost modelling and FinOps governance, defining cost allocation patterns and identifying optimisation opportunities.
• Align with the Senior Manager, Data Platform Engineering and Data Solution Architects to ensure consistency with enterprise data architecture and models.
• Translate architectural direction into practical engineering guidance for Data Platform Engineers and Data Engineers.
• Design data ingestion architecture (batch, micro-batch, and streaming) with clear boundaries for system-to-system integration.
• Define architecture for the semantic layer and self-serve analytics infrastructure.
• Provide input to data squads for complex data products and support Data Product Managers and Data Engineers where architectural complexity requires it.
• Ensure architecture supports emerging requirements, including agentic AI data infrastructure and MLOps productionisation.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of design decisions, patterns, standards, and trade-offs.

Skills

Databricks

CI/CD

Cloud-native

Data security

Data ingestion

Stakeholder comms

Tools

SAP BW

Datasphere

S/4HANA

Job description

Burberry is seeking a Data Platform Architect to own the enterprise data platform architecture in a London-based role. The candidate will define standards, governance, and patterns for compute/storage, ingestion, security, and performance.

Collaboration with cross-functional data squads and senior stakeholders will shape the platform roadmap. The role requires deep Databricks experience, cloud-native thinking, and a proven ability to translate architectural decisions into practical engineering