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.
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