Senior Data & Platform Architect
Posted Today by Brabers
Negotiable
Undetermined
Remote
Remote, UK
Summary: The Senior Data & Platform Architect will lead the design of the data architecture and platform foundations for a client in the fashion-tech industry. This strategic and hands-on role involves defining the target architecture, making decisions on the existing stack, and building a scalable foundation for product growth and analytics. The architect will collaborate closely with stakeholders to support both current and future data-driven capabilities. The position is remote and requires a candidate based in Europe or the UK.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the design of the client's core data architecture and platform foundation.
- Define the target data model supporting brand-retailer matching, retail intelligence, and partner-facing workflows.
- Assess the current stack and recommend what should be retained, refactored, or rebuilt.
- Design architecture that supports both the product UI and future APIs or external data services.
- Establish scalable approaches for data ingestion, modelling, storage, governance, and interoperability.
- Coordinate with existing engineering resources and guide execution priorities and technical sequencing.
- Support platform decisions across scalability, analytics readiness, data quality, and extensibility.
- Communicate architecture choices clearly to non-technical stakeholders and company leadership.
- Contribute to the technical roadmap for future partner modules, deeper analytics, and intelligent automation features.
Key Skills:
- Extensive experience in data architecture, platform engineering, or related senior technical roles.
- Strong background in building or redesigning data platforms for B2B SaaS products.
- Experience designing systems that serve both internal product use cases and external APIs or partner environments.
- Proven ability to make sound architecture decisions in early-stage or scaling environments.
- Comfortable working across strategy and execution, from high-level design to implementation guidance.
- Strong communication skills and confidence working directly with founders and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Fluent English, written and spoken.
- Must be based in Europe/UK.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
We are looking for a Senior Data & Platform Architect to lead the design of the data architecture and platform foundations that will power the next phase of our client. This is a strategic and hands-on role for someone who can define the target architecture, make pragmatic decisions on what to keep versus refactor, and help build a scalable foundation for product growth, analytics, partner modules, and future API services.
You will work closely with the founder, business stakeholders, and technical resources to shape the architecture that supports both the current product and the next generation of data-driven capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design of the client's core data architecture and platform foundation.
- Define the target data model supporting brand-retailer matching, retail intelligence, and partner-facing workflows.
- Assess the current stack and recommend what should be retained, refactored, or rebuilt.
- Design architecture that supports both the product UI and future APIs or external data services.
- Establish scalable approaches for data ingestion, modelling, storage, governance, and interoperability.
- Coordinate with existing engineering resources and guide execution priorities and technical sequencing.
- Support platform decisions across scalability, analytics readiness, data quality, and extensibility.
- Communicate architecture choices clearly to non-technical stakeholders and company leadership.
- Contribute to the technical roadmap for future partner modules, deeper analytics, and intelligent automation features.
What We're Looking For
- Extensive experience in data architecture, platform engineering, or related senior technical roles.
- Strong background in building or redesigning data platforms for B2B SaaS products.
- Experience designing systems that serve both internal product use cases and external APIs or partner environments.
- Proven ability to make sound architecture decisions in early-stage or scaling environments.
- Comfortable working across strategy and execution, from high-level design to implementation guidance.
- Strong communication skills and confidence working directly with founders and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Fluent English, written and spoken.
- Must be based in Europe/UK
Nice to Have
- Experience in marketplace, matching, recommendation, or intelligence platforms.
- Background in data-heavy SaaS environments with evolving product architectures.
- Exposure to fashion, retail, wholesale, or commerce-related workflows.
- Experience designing data foundations for AI- or analytics-driven products.
What's on Offer
- Opportunity to shape the technical foundation of a high-potential AI company in fashion-tech.
- Direct influence on platform architecture at a pivotal stage between commercial validation and scale.
- Work on a product solving real structural pain points across brands, retailers, agencies, councils, and tradeshows.
- Remote-first setup with a Europe-based scope and close collaboration with company leadership.
Long-term role with meaningful responsibility and strategic visibility.
Apply now!
