Data Solution Architect

Overview

Were Kingfisher A team made up of over 74000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: B&Q Screwfix Brico Depot Castorama and Koctas to life. Guided by our purpose Better Homes. Better Lives. For Everyone. We believe a better world starts with better homes and we work every day to make that a reality. Join us and help shape the future of home improvement.

As a Data Solution Architect you will design and govern scalable secure AI and datadriven solutions across a complex European technology landscape. Partnering with product engineering and business teams youll translate business needs into endtoend data architectures aligned to enterprise strategy and standards enabling analytics reporting and customerfacing AI use cases while shaping the future evolution of the data platform.

Please note that this role will be based out of our Kingfisher Southampton office or the Kingfisher Head Office in Paddington with an expectation of 12 days a month in the office.

• Own endtoend data solution architecture for major initiatives from concept through delivery
• Design and document highlevel and detailed data architectures covering sourcing integration storage processing and consumption
• Act as the design authority for data architecture decisions aligned to enterprise strategy standards and governance
• Partner with product engineering and business teams to meet functional and nonfunctional requirements
• Guide delivery teams on data architecture patterns best practices and modern data platform choices
• Ensure compliance with data privacy protection and assurance policies
• Support platform modernisation data migrations AIenabled solutions and continuous improvement of the architecture practice

Essential Skills & Experience

• Proven experience designing endtoend data solutions and largescale data migrations in complex enterprise environments
• Strong data architecture and modelling expertise across relational and nonrelational platforms
• Experience designing scalable realtime data architectures using modern integration patterns (pipelines APIs event/streaming)
• Handson experience with cloudbased data platforms and modern analytics ecosystems
• Experience designing or enabling AIdriven data solutions (e.g. RAG embeddings vector search)
• Strong stakeholder management skills able to communicate complex concepts clearly and challenge constructively

Desirable Experience

• Experience with MDM and CDP platforms (e.g. Stibo Amperity Riversand)
• Exposure to data warehouses data lakes and lakehouse architectures (e.g. Databricks Snowflake BigQuery)
• Familiarity with modern data modelling approaches (Kimball Data Vault Medallion)
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS Azure GCP) and eventdriven/streaming technologies (Kafka Flink CDC)
• Knowledge of SAP and D365 data extraction approaches BI tools (e.g. Power BI) and data governance privacy and security
• Experience working in largescale multibrand or multicountry organisations

How We Work
We believe in flexibility and balance. Our hybrid model blends home working for focus with time spent connecting and collaborating - whether in our offices or at offsite locations. On average around 60% of your time will involve in-person collaboration.

We value the perspectives new team members bring and encourage you to apply - even if you dont meet 100% of the requirements.

What We Offer
An inclusive environment where your potential is limited only by your imagination. We encourage new ideas support experimentation and strive to create a workplace where everyone can be their best self. Find out more about Diversity & Inclusion at Kingfisher here.

We also offer a competitive benefits package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career. Scroll down below to find out more about our benefits.

Diversity & Inclusion
Our customers come from all walks of life - and so do we. Were committed to ensuring all colleagues future colleagues and applicants are treated equally regardless of age gender marital or civil partnership status ethnicity culture religion belief political opinion disability gender identity gender expression or sexual orientation.

Interested Great apply now and help us to Power the Possible.

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