Solution Architect - Data

Skipton Building Society; Skipton; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

25 days holiday

Employer pension up to 10%

Discounted Skipton products

Flexible working

Private medical insurance

Wellbeing app

Volunteer opportunities

Cycle-to-work

Home & Tech voucher

Job summary

Skipton Building Society is seeking a Solutions Architect – Data to shape how data informs member outcomes. You will design end-to-end solutions across a complex landscape, bringing deep data expertise to ensure governance, quality and alignment with long-term strategy.

This role is hybrid, with three days in Skipton and two from home. You’ll collaborate with engineering, product and analytics teams to translate strategy into deliverable designs, champion modern data platforms, and balance

Qualifications

• Strong solution architecture across applications, platforms and data ecosystems.
• Deep understanding of how data supports business capabilities and decision-making.
• Experience delivering enterprise-scale solutions balancing delivery with data quality and governance.
• Knowledge of data modelling, integration patterns, pipelines and information flows.
• Familiarity with cloud-based data platforms and analytics technologies.
• Proven collaboration across business, engineering, architecture and analytics in agile environments.
• Excellent stakeholder management and ability to explain complex concepts.

Responsibilities

• Turn strategic ambitions into practical, deliverable solutions with engineering and product teams.
• Design end-to-end technology solutions aligned to enterprise architecture and strategy.
• Collaborate with product owners, delivery leads, and engineering to translate complex requirements into designs.
• Guide technical decisions balancing short-term delivery with long-term sustainability.
• Provide architectural governance across the delivery lifecycle.
• Identify risks, trade-offs, and opportunities to improve simplicity and reuse.
• Champion modern architecture approaches, including API-led integration and cloud-native design.

Skills

Data architecture

End-to-end design

Cloud data platforms

Data governance

API-led integration

Stakeholder management

Agile delivery

Data modelling

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Solutions Architect – Data

Help us unlock the value of data to shape better outcomes for our members.

We’re looking for a Solutions Architect with a passion for data to help shape how data is used across Skipton. This isn’t a narrow data platform role. You’ll operate as a core Solutions Architect, designing end-to-end solutions across a complex landscape—while bringing deeper expertise in data to ensure everything we build is driven by insight, enabled by strong data foundations, and aligned to long-term strategy.

What You’ll Do

• Play a key role in turning strategic ambitions into practical, deliverable solutions, influencing transformational change, collaborating closely with engineering and product teams, and embedding architecture into delivery to create meaningful, lasting impact.
• Design end-to-end technology solutions aligned to enterprise architecture, strategy, and target-state capabilities.
• Partner with product owners, delivery leads, and engineering teams to turn complex requirements into clear, actionable designs.
• Guide and influence technical decisions, balancing short-term delivery with long-term sustainability.
• Provide architectural governance and assurance across the delivery lifecycle.
• Identify risks, trade-offs, and opportunities to improve simplicity, reuse, and coherence.
• Champion modern architecture approaches, including API‑led integration, cloud‑native design, and reusable platforms.

We work in a hybrid way, balancing flexibility with collaboration. For this role, you'll typically spend three days a week in our Skipton office, with the remaining two days working from home.

What You’ll Need

• Strong solution architecture experience with the ability to design scalable, end‑to‑end solutions across applications, platforms and data ecosystems.
• Deep understanding of how data supports business capabilities, customer outcomes and strategic decision‑making.
• Experience developing enterprise‑scale solutions, balancing immediate delivery needs with long‑term data quality, governance and integrity.
• Solid knowledge of data architecture principles, including data modelling, integration patterns, pipelines and information flows.
• Familiarity with modern cloud‑based data platforms, analytics technologies and data‑driven solution architectures.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively across business, engineering, architecture and analytics teams within agile delivery environments.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence and explain complex technical concepts at all levels.

Benefits

• Annual discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days standard annual leave + bank holidays + rising 1 day per year of service to a max of 30 days
• Matching employer pension contribution (up to 10% per annum)
• Colleague Mortgages and access to Skipton products and services at discounted rates
• Flexible working to help balance your commitments
• Private medical insurance, health and wellbeing app, volunteering opportunities, cycle‑to‑work scheme, discounted gym memberships
• Lifestyle perks such as a Home and Tech voucher, which can be used at John Lewis, Currys, and IKEA

Closing Date

Thu, 23 Jul 2026