Principal Data Architect
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Job Description
We are seeking a Principal Data Architect to serve as the leading technical authority for data architecture across our UK Consumer business.
This is a senior individual contributor role for a highly experienced architect who combines deep technical expertise with strong ownership, commercial pragmatism and the ability to influence across multiple teams. This is a hands-on architecture role being actively engaged from strategy and design through implementation, adoption and optimisation, helping teams make confident decisions and deliver against a shared architectural vision.
You will define the strategic direction for our data ecosystem, shaping the target-state architecture while creating a practical roadmap from today's environment. Working across cloud platforms, data products, analytics, AI and operational systems, you will ensure our architecture enables innovation, scalability, governance and business value.
Key Responsibilities
• Own the current-state, target-state and transition architecture for the enterprise data ecosystem.
• Define end-to-end architecture across data ingestion, transformation, storage, activation, analytics, AI and data products.
• Translate business and product objectives into scalable, secure and maintainable architectural solutions.
• Establish architecture principles, standards, reference patterns and governance frameworks that enable engineering teams to deliver efficiently.
• Lead data modelling, data governance and standards for quality, lineage, metadata, ownership and lifecycle management.
• Provide technical leadership across cloud data platforms and technologies including Snowflake, AWS and associated integration and orchestration tooling.
• Define and evolve patterns for batch, real-time, event-driven and API-based data architectures.
• Lead complex transformation initiatives including cloud migrations, platform modernisation, data product adoption and legacy decommissioning.
• Ensure architecture decisions balance scalability, resilience, security, observability, performance and cost efficiency.
• Influence and mentor engineers, architects and technical leaders while building strong alignment across UK and international teams.
Requirements
Department: Technology
Function: Information Technology
Experience Level: Not Applicable