Data Analytics Architect

Data Analytics Architect

Permanent - Remote (UK) with occasional travel to London
£100k + bonus + benefits (depending on experience and level)

All candidates must be eligible for Security Clearance (SC)

Are you the kind of Analytics Architect who doesn't just deliver solutions but defines how entire enterprise data platforms should be built?

We're looking for experienced Architects to join a high-growth consultancy delivering large-scale cloud data and analytics transformations for major UK organisations.

This isn't a delivery-only role. You'll be responsible for setting the architectural vision across complex, multi-system environments, helping clients modernise legacy estates and move toward scalable, cloud-native data platforms that actually stand up in production.

You'll act as a design authority, shaping strategy at stakeholder level, defining target architectures, and ensuring every solution is engineered for performance, governance, and long-term scalability across the enterprise.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted technical advisor on analytics, data engineering, and cloud data platform architecture
• Lead the end-to-end design of enterprise analytics and BI solutions
• Define and govern solution architectures aligned to business and technical requirements
• Design scalable cloud data platforms, lakehouse architectures, and analytics ecosystems
• Lead architecture for data modelling, warehousing, and ETL/ELT pipelines
• Design and oversee BI and semantic layer architecture (Power BI and similar tools)
• Define standards for data governance, security, lineage, and data quality
• Engage senior stakeholders to shape data strategy, architecture roadmaps, and transformation plans
• Provide architecture governance and solution assurance across delivery teams
• Support pre-sales, solution shaping, and client presentations where required

Essential Experience

• Proven experience as a Data Architect, Analytics Architect, or Senior Cloud Data Consultant
• Strong background in enterprise data platform and analytics architecture
• Extensive experience with Azure data ecosystem (Fabric, Databricks, Synapse, Azure Data Factory)
• Strong understanding of data modelling (Kimball, dimensional modelling, lakehouse patterns)
• Experience designing enterprise ETL/ELT and data integration architectures
• Strong BI architecture experience (Power BI, Tableau, or equivalent)
• Solid understanding of data governance, security, metadata, and data quality frameworks
• Ability to translate complex business requirements into scalable architectures
• Strong consulting and stakeholder engagement experience

Desirable

• Exposure to AI/ML and advanced analytics platform architecture
• Experience with Microsoft Fabric adoption or modernisation programmes
• Knowledge of Databricks Lakehouse architecture patterns
• Experience in regulated environments (government, defence, financial services)
• Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD, and DataOps practices in cloud environments
• Experience contributing to architecture governance boards and solution assurance

Why Join?

• Shape enterprise-wide data and analytics transformation programmes
• Influence architecture strategy for major UK organisations
• Join a high-growth consulting environment with strong technical focus
• Work with modern cloud technologies and next-generation data platforms
• Flexible remote-first model with occasional London travel
• Competitive package with bonus and benefits
• Clear progression into Principal Architect / Enterprise Architect roles