Head of Data Architecture
Job Summary
A large global professional services organisation is undertaking a major transformation of its enterprise data landscape building a modern Microsoft Fabric-based data platform and strengthening its internal Data & AI capability.
They are looking for an experienced Data Architect to lead the architecture standards and design of this new data environment.
The Role
- Lead the architecture and design of the Microsoft Fabric data platform
- Define patterns for Lakehouse Data Warehouse Real-Time Analytics Semantic Models and Data Engineering
- Design scalable data ingestion transformation storage and consumption patterns
- Define enterprise conceptual logical and physical data models
- Establish metadata-driven architecture data lineage and cataloguing standards
- Define Master Data Management (MDM) principles
- Develop enterprise data architecture standards and roadmaps
- Design integration architectures using APIs event-driven patterns and ETL/ELT
- Embed data governance security and data quality
- Work across data engineering analytics architecture and business teams
Key Skills
- Strong Data / Enterprise Data Architecture background
- Extensive Microsoft Fabric experience
- Azure Data Platform
- Lakehouse Warehousing and Data Engineering
- Enterprise data modelling
- Metadata management lineage and data catalogues
- Master Data Management (MDM)
- Data governance and data quality
- APIs ETL/ELT and integration patterns
- SQL
- Strong stakeholder management and architectural leadership
Required Experience:
Director
About Company
Pioneers in applied thinking in the IT industry since 2000.We began with a smart people network of it innovators who wanted architectural decision to be applied in the architectural design, not in the software.