Senior Data Architect

Senior Data Architect

Remote (UK) with occasional travel | £80,000 to £90,000 + benefits

This is an opportunity to take ownership of data architecture within a large-scale Azure Data Lakehouse transformation. You'll play a key role in shaping how data is modelled, governed, and consumed across the organisation, helping to drive the transition from traditional reporting to advanced analytics and data-driven decision making.

The Company

They are a well-established UK organisation with a complex data landscape and a strong commitment to modernising their data capabilities. Having invested significantly in cloud-based data infrastructure, they are now focused on building scalable, high-quality data products that support both operational and strategic objectives.

Data is becoming increasingly central to business decision making, and this role offers the chance to influence data strategy at a senior level while remaining hands-on with architecture and modelling.

The Role

You will act as the technical authority for data architecture and modelling across a modern Azure environment.

Key responsibilities include:

• Designing and governing enterprise-wide data models across a Medallion Architecture framework
• Creating curated data models using dimensional modelling and Kimball methodologies
• Defining modelling standards, governance frameworks, and data feed specifications
• Supporting the design of semantic layers that enable reporting, analytics, and future AI use cases
• Collaborating closely with Data Engineers and Analytics Engineers in an agile delivery environment
• Producing architecture documentation, diagrams, and technical designs
• Influencing wider business systems to ensure strong data architecture principles are embedded throughout the organisation
• Driving best practice across data quality, consistency, scalability, and governance

Your Skills & Experience

• Strong hands-on experience as a Data Architect within enterprise-scale environments
• Expertise in dimensional modelling, star schemas, facts and dimensions, and Kimball methodologies
• Experience designing and implementing Medallion Architecture frameworks
• Strong knowledge of Azure-based Data Lakehouse environments
• Experience creating curated and semantic data layers for analytical consumption
• Proven ability to develop architecture standards, governance frameworks, and modelling best practice
• Experience working across the full data lifecycle, from source systems through to business-facing analytics
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior decision-makers

Desirable experience:

• Background in financial services, professional services, legal services, or similarly complex data environments
• Experience supporting organisations on their journey towards customer-centric or client-centric data models

What They Offer

• Highly flexible remote working model with occasional travel
• Significant autonomy and ownership within a major data transformation programme
• Direct exposure to senior technology and business stakeholders
• Opportunity to become the organisation's lead authority on data modelling and architecture
• Clear opportunities to shape strategy and influence the future direction of the data platform

How to Apply

If you're a Senior Data Architect with strong Azure Data Lakehouse and data modelling expertise, apply today to learn more about this opportunity.