Onsite Data Platform Architect

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About the role

  • Data Platform Architect in wealth management business guiding high-quality data capability solutions and collaboration across multiple stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Define and owns a multi-year data platform architecture roadmap which supports the business outcome, specifically to support data, reporting, advanced analytics and AI
  • Ensures architectural coherence across Fabric, Azure, Databricks and AI environments
  • Establish and maintain the enterprise data platform architecture, covering ingestion, storage, compute, orchestration, governance, quality, and consumption.
  • Translate architecture principles into pragmatic, implementable guidance for engineering and delivery teams.
  • Assess and recommend emerging data and analytics technologies and platform features to implement as part of the platform roadmap
  • Conduct design assurance and solution reviews across platform and product squads
  • Collaborate with enterprise architects, cloud platform, security and data governance to design holistic services for the business and customers
  • Work closely with platform tenant teams to understand challenges and enable new features and capabilities for the organisation
  • Translate business needs and data strategy into architectural blueprints and solution patterns
  • Communicate clearly across technical and non-technical teams to align on priorities and progress
  • Work across the data function with Data Engineering, Platform Engineering, Modelling and Business requirement to curate a set of design patterns to enable repeatable solution delivery
  • Define architectural principles that optimise reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency
  • Define guardrails for resilience, compliance, and security-by-design.
  • Drive continuous improvement in design and solution engineering

Requirements

  • Degree in a technical discipline (e.g. computer science, engineering, maths, physics) or evidence of equivalent practical experience
  • Proven experience providing architectural leadership and influencing cross‑functional technical teams
  • Strong technical hand on experience in designing, building and maintaining data platform in an Azure, Databricks and Fabric ecosystem
  • Experience designing data platforms using Medallion or Lakehouse architecture.
  • Strong understanding of data governance: lineage, cataloguing, metadata, RBAC, data privacy.
  • Experience with Lamda and multimodal data systems
  • History of delivering overall strategic architecture outcomes through diverse project deliveries
  • Solid grasp of data engineering, business intelligence, artificial intelligence and modern development /deployment techniques
  • Strategic thinker with curious mindset and strong problem-solving skills
  • Ability to communicate complex concepts in a clear, concise manner
  • Ability to balance innovation with enterprise constraints
  • Experience in cost‑optimised architecture design for cloud environments.
  • Experience in platform architecture across Azure, Databricks, AI Foundry and Microsoft Fabric platforms
  • TOGAF experience is desirable

Benefits

  • Holiday: 182 hours (26 days)
  • Quilter Incentive Scheme: All employees are eligible to participate in incentive scheme, to incentivise business performance and their contribution.
  • Pension Scheme: A non-contributory company pension scheme that can be boosted through personal contributions.
  • Private Medical Insurance: Single cover as standard with options to increase cover to include your partner or children.
  • Life Assurance: 4x your salary.
  • Income Protection: 75% of salary, less state benefits, payable after 26 weeks of absence.
  • Healthcare Cash Plan: Jersey employees only
  • In addition to our core benefits, we offer a range of flexible benefits to UK employees that you can choose from and pay for conveniently via a salary deduction.

Job title

Data Platform Architect

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Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

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Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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