What You'll Be Doing
- Leading the architecture and delivery of a new Azure-based data warehouse platform
- Reviewing, challenging and enhancing existing high-level solution designs
- Collaborating with engineering teams to produce detailed technical designs
- Defining architecture standards, best practices and long-term technology roadmaps
- Providing hands-on technical leadership throughout delivery
- Working alongside Data Engineers to build production-ready solutions
- Reviewing code, designs and technical deliverables to ensure quality and consistency
- Driving architectural decisions across security, governance, scalability and performance
- Engaging with business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions
- Supporting deployment, release management and CI/CD processes within Azure DevOps
- Promoting modern engineering practices across data, cloud and DevOps teams
What We're Looking For
Essential Experience
Proven experience as a Data Architect delivering Azure-based data platforms
Strong background designing enterprise-scale data warehouse and analytics solutions
Extensive experience with:
Azure SQL
Azure Data Factory
Power BI
Azure DevOps
Experience delivering greenfield data platform implementations
Strong understanding of dimensional modelling and modern data warehouse design
Experience developing scalable, secure and maintainable cloud architectures
Expertise establishing CI/CD and DevOps practices for data platforms
Strong stakeholder management and requirements gathering skills
Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences
Experience working within Agile delivery environments
Desirable Experience
Data governance and data quality frameworks
Azure security and access control architecture
Consultancy, technology consulting or professional services experience
Experience within highly regulated environments
Current UK Security Clearance (SC) or eligibility to obtain clearance
Microsoft Azure certifications, including: Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Azure Data Engineer Associate
Role overview
- Data Architect (Azure)
- Fully remote (UK only) with ad hoc meetings to South Wales/Southwest
- Day rate - £575.00 - £625.00
- 3months initially + likely extension
- IR35 status is to be confirmed but likely outside (pending)
- 1 stage MS Teams interview
- Start date end of September ideally