Principal Consultant - Data Architect

Office locations considered: Newbury, Reading, London, Liverpool or Glasgow.

The Team

We're Intuita - a fast-growing consultancy that's making waves in both the consultancy and technology space. As now part of the wider FSP Consulting group, we have ambitious goals for the year ahead, we are looking for talented individuals to complement the team of experts we already have working across our business, becoming a pivotal part of our journey, not just to meet but continuously exceed our client expectations!

In this strategic role, you will work closely with our Engineering Associate Directors and Principal Consultants to define, design and govern high-quality data architectures across complex client environments. You'll bring deep architectural expertise, strong communication skills, and the ability to translate business challenges into scalable, future-proof data solutions.

Interested so far? Read on for a more detailed job spec and benefits outline:

----The Role

We are looking for a Data Architect to join our growing team.This position suits someone who blends hands-on architectural design with strategic leadership, comfortable guiding both clients and engineering teams toward robust, sustainable and high-quality outcomes.

Key Responsibilities you can expect:

Data Architecture Leadership

Define, own and evolve enterprise-grade data architectures, ensuring scalability, sustainability and alignment with client objectives.

Solution Design & Governance

Lead the design of cloud-based data platforms, semantic layers, integration patterns and data models. Establish governance standards, frameworks and principles that guide engineering teams.

Stakeholder & Client Engagement

Act as a trusted technical partner to clients, shaping their data strategy, advising senior stakeholders and articulating architecture decisions with clarity and confidence.

Quality, Standards & Best Practice

Create and enforce architectural guidelines, including modelling standards, reference architectures, blueprints and reusable components to ensure consistent delivery quality.

Technology Strategy & Continuous Improvement

Stay current with emerging data platform technologies, architectural patterns and cloud-native capabilities. Proactively share insights and drive innovation across the wider engineering team.

On-Site Engagement

Periodically attend client sites to enhance relationships and ensure architectural direction aligns with strategic outcomes.

A bit about you

Being a consultant at Intuita is different.We hire driven, passionate people who care about quality and honesty. We value individuality, collaboration and people who bring their own style to solving complex problems.

As a Data Architect, you should embody these values and bring a mix of technical depth, strategic thinking and excellent communication skills.

We're looking for someone with:

• Extensive experience defining and delivering data architectures in large-scale, enterprise or transformation programmes.
• Proven expertise designing cloud-native data platforms across Azure, GCP or AWS.
• Strong background in data modelling methodologies (Kimball, 3NF, Data Vault, dimensional modelling).
• Experience with modern data transformation approaches — familiarity with DBT and analytics engineering principles is beneficial.
• Deep understanding of data platforms, orchestration, metadata management, CI/CD and architectural components such as DevOps, Azure Data Factory, BigQuery, Databricks, MS Fabric, Airflow, Snowflake etc.
• Demonstrated experience architecting solutions using medallion architectures, including curated gold-layer models designed for analytics consumption.
• Strong knowledge of unity catalog (or similar), data governance, lineage, cataloguing and metadata-driven design.
• Awareness of cloud economics, cost optimisation strategies and designing solutions that balance performance with value.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, especially Terraform, to ensure architectural consistency and deployment scalability.
• Ability to inspire, guide and elevate cross-functional engineering teams.
• Solid understanding of Agile delivery and cross-functional collaboration.

The "Nice to Have's" would include:

• Experience working in a consultancy, able to navigate diverse clients and industries.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., Azure Data Architect, AWS/GCP Architect, Databricks).
• Industry domain experience: financial services, telecoms, ecommerce, retail, or others.
• Experience designing semantic layers and BI-friendly data structures (e.g., Power BI models).
• Familiarity with enterprise data management tools such as Azure Purview or Collibra (cataloguing, lineage, data quality).

If you don't fit the above criteria exactly but are interested in working for us, get in touch anyway! - we hire people, not a job spec!

What's in it for you?

• Salary: c. £75,000 - c. £95,000 per annum DOE
• An enhanced benefits package

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