Data Solution Architect - Customer

Salary

£? - ? per year

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing and/or selecting secure, scalable, performant customer data solutions in a retail environment
• Understanding of data lake or lakehouse solutions and their role in customer data architecture
• Strong knowledge of analytics and reporting best practices for customer insights
• Familiarity with data governance and enterprise security requirements
• Ability to create key design principles and key design decisions
• Excellent communication skills for presenting solution proposals to senior stakeholders
• Experience reviewing and approving designs produced by others, checking for architectural alignment and recommending changes where appropriate
• Experience designing Azure-based customer data solutions, including storage, transformation, metadata management, orchestration, lineage, and logging
• Understanding of machine learning and AI applications for customer personalisation
• Familiarity with capabilities supported by Databricks for customer data processing
• Experience with Agile delivery methodology
• Experience reviewing and mentoring others

Responsibilities

• Build strong, collaborative relationships with stakeholders across customer focused initiatives
• Provide thought leadership on customer data architecture, ensuring solutions support consistent, trusted customer data across all channels
• Propose design patterns and solutions that enable customer data management, integration, enrichment, and governance
• Create and maintain design artefacts for customer data solutions to enable engineering teams to build effectively, or solutions to be acquired and integrated
• Review customer data solutions for compliance with design principles and functional and non functional requirements
• Lead design decisions and best practices for customer data management, identity resolution, and master data management
• Stay abreast of industry trends in customer data technologies and retail data strategies

Technologies

• AI
• Architect
• Azure
• CRM
• Databricks
• Support
• Machine Learning
• Security
• Cloud

Contract Details

We are seeking an experienced Data Solutions Architect to join our Data Architecture & Design Team on a 6 month contract in London on a hybrid basis. In this role, we work with stakeholders to define future data strategies, deliver measurable outcomes such as improved personalisation and data quality, and ensure our solutions align with business goals. We manage, govern, and extract value from customer data systems while collaborating across architecture, product, analytics, governance, security, and CRM teams. This is an umbrella contract paying £750 per day.