Senior Data Architect Senior Data Engineer

As a Central Data Architect you will play a critical role in empowering and accelerating Line of Business (LOB) data teams by providing clear scalable and actionable architectural guidance. Partnering closely with the Enterprise Data Architect you will define and promote foundational data architecture patterns that enable LOB teams to move faster with confidence while maintaining alignment with enterprise standards.

Your mission is to bridge strategic architecture with practical implementation ensuring LOB teams can rapidly design build and scale cloud-native data solutions especially Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Fabric without reinventing the wheel. You will act as a trusted advisor and enabler helping federated teams adopt best practices leverage reusable assets and navigate architectural decisions that drive consistency innovation and speed across WTWs data ecosystem.

This role is pivotal in fostering a federated data model that balances autonomy with alignment enabling LOB teams to deliver business value faster while contributing to a cohesive enterprise data strategy.

The Role

• Develop and maintain enterprise-wide data architecture standards patterns and best practices aligned with WTWs common as possible distinct as necessary philosophy.
• Collaborate with embedded data teams to educate guide and support the adoption of centralized data architecture strategies.
• Work closely with business and technical teams to provide architectural guidance on data management data quality metadata management and data lineage ensuring alignment with enterprise data principles and cloud-native design patterns.
• Lead the creation of conceptual and reference architecture designs that support scalable secure and compliant data solutions.
• Contribute to the evolution of WTWs data platform strategy including the use of Microsoft Fabric Azure Synapse and other modern data services.
• Support the migration of legacy on-premises data systems to cloud-native architectures.
• Document and communicate architectural decisions trade-offs and implementation guidance in a clear and consumable format.
• Assist in understanding compliance requirements with respect to data security privacy and regulatory requirements across all data solutions.
• Evaluate and recommend tools technologies and platforms to support enterprise data initiatives.
• Participate in architecture reviews design sessions and governance forums to ensure architectural integrity and alignment.

Note: Employment-based non-immigrant visa sponsorship and/or assistance is not offered for this specific job opportunity.

The Requirements

• Substantial experience in data architecture and data engineering with a strong focus on cloud-native solutions.
• Solid experience that focused specifically in data architecture roles ideally within large federated organizations.
• Deep expertise in Microsoft Azure data services (e.g. Azure Data Factory Synapse Data Lake SQL DB) and Microsoft Fabric.
• Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and DevOps practices including CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing scalable secure and performant data solutions in cloud environments.
• Proficiency in data modeling techniques (e.g. dimensional normalized data vault) and the ability to apply them appropriately.
• Working experience with modern data architecture paradigms such as Data Mesh Data Lakehouse and Event-Driven architecture.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a proven ability to influence and collaborate across diverse teams.
• Strong documentation skills and a passion for sharing knowledge.
• Familiarity with data governance compliance and data residency considerations.
• WTW core competencies: Customer Focus Problem Solving Action Oriented Strategic Agility Results Focus and Organizing & Planning.

• Preferred Qualifications
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate.
  • Experience working in a federated data architecture model.
  • Experience with enterprise data strategy development and implementation.
  • Past work with multi-cloud or hybrid cloud data architectures.
  • Familiarity with WTWs internal data architecture frameworks and tooling is a plus.

Compensation and Benefits

Base salary range and benefits information for this position are being included in accordance with requirements of various state/local pay transparency legislation. Please note that salaries may vary for different individuals in the same role based on several factors including but not limited to location of the role individual competencies education/professional certifications qualifications/experience performance in the role and potential for revenue generation (Producer roles only).

Company Benefits

WTW provides a competitive benefit package which includes the following (eligibility requirements apply):

• Health and Welfare Benefits: Medical (including prescription coverage) Dental Vision Health Savings Account Commuter Account Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts Group Accident Group Critical Illness Life Insurance AD&D Group Legal Identify Theft Protection Wellbeing Program and Work/Life Resources (including Employee Assistance Program)
• Leave Benefits: Paid Holidays Annual Paid Time Off (includes state/local paid leave where required) Short-Term Disability Long-Term Disability Other Leaves (e.g. Bereavement FMLA ADA Jury Duty Military Leave and Parental and Adoption Leave)Paid Time Off (only included for Washington roles)
• Retirement Benefits: Qualified contributory pension plan (if eligible) and 401(k) plan with annual nonelective company contribution. Non-qualified retirement plans available to senior level colleagues who satisfy the plans eligibility requirements.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

EOE including disability/vets