Senior Data Solutions Architect – Azure & Fabric Leader

Ofcom; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangements

Disability confident recruitment

Job summary

Ofcom is seeking a Senior Associate, IT Architecture to translate regulatory needs into scalable data architectures using Microsoft Fabric and Azure. You will guide governance, security, and analytics initiatives while collaborating with engineers, data scientists and business stakeholders.

The role focuses on enterprise data platforms, self-service analytics, and responsible AI practices, with opportunities to influence the organisation’s data strategy and technology roadmap.

Qualifications

• Architectural experience delivering enterprise-scale data and analytics solutions.
• Design standards, patterns and roadmaps for data platforms.
• Strong governance and enterprise architecture knowledge.
• Experience with AI, machine learning and analytics solution patterns.

Responsibilities

• Translate business and regulatory requirements into end-to-end architectures.
• Design scalable data platforms using Microsoft Fabric and Azure services.
• Lead rollout and adoption of Microsoft Fabric across Ofcom.
• Define patterns for ingestion, transformation, and data governance.
• Work with data engineers and platform teams to ensure secure, scalable pipelines.
• Ensure compliance with security and governance requirements.

Skills

Architecture leadership

Data architecture

Stakeholder management

Regulatory knowledge

Security and governance

Cloud data platforms

Education

Microsoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate (preferred)

Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate (preferred)

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

Azure Data Factory

Databricks

Azure SQL

Power BI

Job description

Ofcom is seeking a Senior Associate, IT Architecture to translate regulatory needs into scalable data architectures using Microsoft Fabric and Azure. You will guide governance, security, and analytics initiatives while collaborating with engineers, data scientists and business stakeholders.

The role focuses on enterprise data platforms, self-service analytics, and responsible AI practices, with opportunities to influence the organisation’s data strategy and technology roadmap.