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Data Platform Architect

London
£550/day
Posted about 12 hours ago
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Data Platform Architect

Location: London
Working Pattern: Hybrid – 2 days per week onsite
Contract: 12 months
Rate: Up to £550 per day

Key Responsibilities

  • Define and maintain the enterprise Databricks reference architecture, platform principles, and engineering guardrails.
  • Establish workload decision frameworks covering serverless compute, job clusters, interactive compute, and SQL Warehouses.
  • Design and govern Unity Catalog, including catalogs, schemas, workspaces, storage credentials, and external locations.
  • Define enterprise identity, entitlement, RBAC, service-principal, and least-privilege access patterns.
  • Establish cluster policies, tagging standards, budget controls, and platform cost governance.
  • Define reusable patterns for ingestion, transformation, orchestration, CI/CD, observability, and data quality.
  • Lead migration from legacy platforms and classic compute to appropriate Databricks-native and serverless architectures.
  • Review solution designs, manage architectural risks, and resolve complex performance, scalability, and security issues.
  • Monitor platform adoption, utilization, performance, and cost, driving continuous optimization.
  • Evaluate emerging Databricks capabilities and translate them into practical enterprise patterns.

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What We're Looking For

  • 10–20 years' experience in data/platform architecture, with strong hands-on experience architecting and operating enterprise Databricks environments.
  • Deep knowledge of Databricks, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, Lakeflow, Workflows, and SQL Warehouses.
  • Strong experience with identity, RBAC, data security, secrets management, networking, and audit solutions.
  • Experience with platform automation, CI/CD, monitoring, cost governance, and performance optimization.
  • Strong knowledge of AWS, including IAM, networking, private connectivity, storage, encryption, secrets management, and infrastructure as code.
  • Experience translating platform capabilities into enterprise standards and architecture decision frameworks.
  • Strong stakeholder management, technical leadership, architecture governance, and communication skills.
  • Experience leading POCs, technology evaluations, architecture reviews, and senior stakeholder presentations.
  • Experience working across multidisciplinary teams including data engineers, architects, governance specialists, analysts, and business stakeholders.

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Desirable Skills

  • Databricks certification, such as Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate/Professional or Solutions Architect.
  • Experience establishing or supporting a Databricks Centre of Excellence.
  • Terraform and Databricks Asset Bundles.
  • AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, or GitHub Actions.
  • Python, SQL, Spark, and REST APIs.
  • Real-time/event-driven data architectures.
  • Power BI, Tableau, or other analytical platforms.
  • Data Mesh and data product architecture.
  • Exposure to AI/ML workloads on Databricks.
  • Experience working with globally distributed teams and enterprise-scale data platforms.

Primary Technologies

  • Databricks | PySpark | Delta Lake | Unity Catalog | Lakeflow/Delta Live Tables | SQL | AWS | Git | CI/CD | Data Modelling
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Skills

Databricks
Unity Catalog
Delta Lake
AWS
PySpark
CI/CD
RBAC
Data Modelling
Terraform
Python
SQL
Spark
Infrastructure as Code
Data Governance
Cloud Architecture
Stakeholder Management

Location

London, England, United Kingdom

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