Data Architect

Lead – Data Models for Microsoft Fabric

Location: London, UK - (with occasional on-site collaboration)

Contract Type: 3-6 month Contract

Department: Data & Analytics

About the Role

Seeking an experienced Lead, Data Models for Microsoft Fabric to spearhead the design and oversight of semantic data models, metadata, and end-to-end lineage. This senior, hands-on role ensures full data traceability from ingestion to consumption for quality reporting, strong governance, and confident decision-making. You will build and manage robust master data and metadata, ensuring definition, risk-assessment, and alignment with enterprise standards. Collaborate closely with Data Architecture, BI & Analytics, and Change Engineering to underpin all reporting with high-quality semantic models, logical lineage, and data glossaries.

Key Responsibilities

Metadata & Lineage

• Partner with business analysts and solution designers to embed metadata capture into change and operational processes.
• Maintain metadata and process mapping artefacts, escalating issues and resolving gaps where needed.
• Oversee logical and physical lineage across data domains, ensuring accurate mapping to Microsoft Fabric and Purview.

Enterprise Data Models

• Co-lead with data architects on developing enterprise and system-supporting data models.
• Identify and define ontology, semantics, and support knowledge graph initiatives.
• Contribute to logical data modelling and co-own master data management frameworks.
• Maintain documentation in Confluence and support business updates for reports and models.

Critical Data Management

• Support the definition and management of critical data using tools such as Solidatus and Purview.
• Maintain logical lineage for critical data elements and lead conversations with stakeholders to address lineage issues.

Data Management Tooling & Platforms

• Support implementation and enhancement of Purview within the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem.
• Assist with integrating Solidatus, Aperture and other metadata platforms with enterprise tooling.
• Contribute to automation initiatives and develop improved metadata and lineage metrics.

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

Essential

• Extensive experience as a Metadata Manager, Metadata Architect, or similar.
• Demonstrable success implementing improvements in metadata tooling and processes.
• Strong experience designing metadata/lineage controls and producing lineage metrics/KPIs.
• Knowledge of DAMA, EDM or other industry best-practice frameworks.
• Proficiency with metadata technologies and lineage visualisation.
• Strong understanding of logical data modelling and data normalisation.

Highly Desirable

• Experience in Investment or Commercial Banking, Asset Management, or related financial services.
• Experience managing mixed teams (direct and indirect reports).
• Skilled in running stakeholder requirements sessions and owning user story backlogs.
• Architecture framework qualification or experience (e.g., TOGAF).

How to Apply

If you are a proactive, detail-oriented data leader with deep expertise in metadata, lineage, and Microsoft Fabric environments, we would love to hear from you. Please submit your CV and availability.