Strategic Enterprise Data Architect for AI-Driven Platform

DAC Beachcroft LLP; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Income protection insurance

Discounted gym membership

Job summary

DAC Beachcroft LLP is seeking an experienced Enterprise Data Architect to define and lead the organisation's target-state data architecture, ensuring data landscape supports growth, regulatory compliance, and AI-driven innovation.

This strategic role requires designing frameworks, standards and technology architecture across case management, finance, CRM, analytics and AI platforms, collaborating with senior leaders to build a scalable data ecosystem and reduce integration complexity.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise data architectures in complex or regulated environments.
• Strong understanding of modern data platform patterns including Data Warehouses, Data Lakes, Data Lakehouses, Data Mesh, API-led architectures and Event-driven integration.
• Experience architecting solutions that support both operational reporting and advanced analytics, including AI and machine learning workloads.
• Strong knowledge of Azure-based data platforms and cloud architecture principles.
• Familiarity with Master Data Management (MDM) frameworks and technologies.
• Experience integrating multiple business-critical systems within a hybrid technology environment.
• Ability to balance immediate business needs with long-term architectural strategy and technical sustainability.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Experience producing architecture standards, roadmaps and governance documentation.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the enterprise data architecture, including conceptual, logical, and physical data models.
• Design integration strategies and architecture patterns that connect case management, finance, CRM, document management, and analytics systems.
• Drive adoption of modern integration approaches, favouring API-led and event-driven architectures over point-to-point solutions.
• Evaluate and recommend technologies for the organisation's data platform, including data warehouses, lakehouses, master data management solutions, and API frameworks
• Design the data foundations required to support AI and machine learning initiatives, ensuring high-quality, trusted, and accessible data.
• Partner with Data Engineering, Data Governance, and Analytics teams to ensure architecture standards are consistently applied.
• Define enterprise data security and access architecture in collaboration with data governance and information security teams.
• Produce and maintain architecture roadmaps, standards, and documentation.
• Support the CTO, Enterprise Architecture function, and Head of Data & Analytics on major transformation programmes, platform migrations, and strategic technology decisions, including vendor selection.

Skills

Enterprise data architecture

Data platform patterns

Azure cloud knowledge

MDM frameworks

Stakeholder management

Architectural governance

API-led architectures

Event-driven integration

Education

TOGAF certification

Azure Solutions Architect

Tools

Azure Data Services

API frameworks

Job description

DAC Beachcroft LLP is seeking an experienced Enterprise Data Architect to define and lead the organisation's target-state data architecture, ensuring data landscape supports growth, regulatory compliance, and AI-driven innovation.

This strategic role requires designing frameworks, standards and technology architecture across case management, finance, CRM, analytics and AI platforms, collaborating with senior leaders to build a scalable data ecosystem and reduce integration complexity.