Data Platform Architect

TL;DR

Data Platform Architect (Azure/Databricks/Fabric): Owning and managing the data platform reference architecture to enable business value with an accent on data, reporting, advanced analytics and AI. Focus on defining multi-year roadmap, ensuring architectural coherence across environments, and translating principles into pragmatic implementable guidance for engineering teams.

Location: Southampton or London

Company

Leading wealth management business overseeing £141.2 billion in customer investments, with offerings in financial advice, investment platforms, multi-asset solutions, and discretionary fund management.

What you will do

• Define and own multi-year data platform architecture roadmap supporting business outcomes.
• Establish and maintain enterprise data platform covering ingestion, storage, compute, orchestration, governance, quality, and consumption.
• Conduct design assurance, solution reviews, and recommend emerging technologies for the platform.
• Collaborate with enterprise architects, cloud platform, security, and data governance teams.
• Translate business needs into architectural blueprints and solution patterns.
• Define principles and guardrails for reliability, scalability, cost efficiency, compliance, and security.

Requirements

• Degree in technical discipline or equivalent practical experience.
• Proven architectural leadership in cross-functional teams.
• Hands-on experience designing and maintaining data platforms in Azure, Databricks, and Fabric.
• Experience with Medallion or Lakehouse architecture, data governance (lineage, cataloguing, metadata, RBAC, privacy).
• Understanding of Lambda/multimodal data systems, data engineering, BI, AI, and modern development techniques.
• Strategic thinking, problem-solving, clear communication of complex concepts.

Nice to have

• TOGAF experience.
• Cost-optimised architecture design for cloud environments.

Culture & Benefits

• 26 days holiday (182 hours).
• hirify.global Incentive Scheme for business performance.
• Non-contributory pension scheme.
• Private medical insurance (single cover standard).
• Life assurance (4x salary), income protection (75% salary after 26 weeks).
• Flexible benefits via salary deduction for UK employees.