Data Architect
Posted 3 days 5 hours ago by Xcede Recruitment Solutions
Permanent
Not Specified
Factory Jobs
London, United Kingdom
Job Description
Senior Data Architect - Azure / Databricks / Python
Location:London (2 days per week in-office)
Salary: £100,000
Type: Permanent
Join a global leader in legal market intelligence as they embark on a major data transformation journey.
Our client is internationally recognised for their deep-dive publications, trusted globally in the same way the Michelin Guide is for restaurants. With significant inbound business and a subscriber-based model, they are now pivoting into the world of market intelligence-developing tools that help legal professionals and firms understand performance metrics, win/loss ratios, and sector trends through data.
With a new CDO leading the function and a committed investment in data, they are hiring a Senior Data Architect to help shape and scale their Azure-native data platform. You'll play a central role in the architecture of a platform handling vast quantities of textual and quantitative legal data-supporting both internal analytics and customer-facing products.
Key Responsibilities
Location:London (2 days per week in-office)
Salary: £100,000
Type: Permanent
Join a global leader in legal market intelligence as they embark on a major data transformation journey.
Our client is internationally recognised for their deep-dive publications, trusted globally in the same way the Michelin Guide is for restaurants. With significant inbound business and a subscriber-based model, they are now pivoting into the world of market intelligence-developing tools that help legal professionals and firms understand performance metrics, win/loss ratios, and sector trends through data.
With a new CDO leading the function and a committed investment in data, they are hiring a Senior Data Architect to help shape and scale their Azure-native data platform. You'll play a central role in the architecture of a platform handling vast quantities of textual and quantitative legal data-supporting both internal analytics and customer-facing products.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture and design of robust, scalable data solutions in a modern Azure environment
- Drive the development of logical and conceptual data models, metadata frameworks, and architecture roadmaps
- Support and influence the entire data lifecycle-from ingestion and transformation to analytics and product delivery
- Collaborate closely with the CDO and engineering team to define the platform's technical direction
- Deliver architectural outputs and solutions aligned with governance, compliance, and performance best practices
- Work with both structured and unstructured datasets, leveraging Databricks and Azure Data Factory
- Provide thought leadership across data strategy, tooling, and modelling
- Azure Cloud Services (Data Factory, Databricks, Azure SQL, CosmosDB, Synapse)
- SQL Server (on-prem and cloud-based)
- Python and .NET code base
- MDM, Data Lineage, Data Vault, and Kimball
- Agile delivery, collaborative team culture
- Experience as a Senior Data Architect or Lead Data Engineer in a modern cloud environment
- Hands-on knowledge of Azure data services and strong SQL skills
- Extensive experience in designing metadata-driven pipelines and data warehouse architectures
- Comfortable defining "as-is" and "to-be" states across data ecosystems
- Strong communication skills with the ability to liaise across technical and business teams
- Passionate about technology, detail-driven, and proactive in delivery
- Keen to be a doer-not just a strategist-and thrive in getting architecture built and working
- Competitive salary ( £100k) with flexibility
- High-impact role with exposure to C-level decision making
- Hybrid working model - 2 days per week in-office
- Clear progression path to Head of Data Architecture