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Data Solution Architect
About the Role
Kingfisher is a team of over 74,000 passionate individuals dedicated toBrands: B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot, Castorama, and Koçtaş. Guided by our purpose: Better Homes. Better Lives. For Everyone, we strive to improve the world by enhancing homes every day. Join us to help shape the future of home improvement.
Role Summary
As a Data Solution Architect, you will:
- Design and govern scalable, secure, AI- and data-driven solutions across a complex European technology landscape.
- Partner with product, engineering and business teams to translate business needs into enterprise-strategy-aligned data architectures, enabling analytics, reporting, and customer-facing AI use cases.
- Shape the evolution of our data platform.
This role will be based at the Kingfisher Southampton office or the Kingfisher Head Office in Paddington, with an expectation of 12 office days per month.
Key Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end data solution architecture for major initiatives, from concept to delivery
- Design and document high-level and detailed data architectures, covering:
- Data sourcing
- Integration
- Storage, processing, and consumption
- Act as the design authority for data architecture decisions, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy, governance, and standards
- Partner with product, engineering, and business teams to meet functional and non-functional requirements
- Guide delivery teams on best practices for:
- Data architecture patterns
- Modern data platform choices
- Ensure compliance with data privacy, protection, and assurance policies
- Support platform modernisation, data migrations, AI-enabled solutions, and the continuous improvement of our architecture practice
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Requirements
Essential Skills & Experience
- Proven experience designing end-to-end data solutions and large-scale data migrations in complex enterprise environments
- Strong expertise in data architecture and modelling across:
- Relational and non-relational platforms
- Experience designing scalable, real-time data architectures using:
- Modern integration patterns (sentient pipelines, APIs, event/streaming)
- Hands-on experience with cloud-based data platforms and modern analytics ecosystems
- Experience designing or enabling AI-driven data solutions (e.g., RAG, embeddings, vector search)
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to:
- Communicate complex concepts clearly
- Challenge constructively
Desirable Experience
- Experience with MDM (Master Data Management) and CDP (Customer Data Platform) platforms:
- Examples: Stibo, Amperity, Riversand
- Familiarity with:
- Data warehouses, data lakes, and lakehouse architectures
- Examples: Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery
- Knowledge of modern data modelling approaches:
- Examples: Kimball, Data Vault, Medallion
- Experience with:
- Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Event-driven/streaming technologies (Kafka, Flink, CDC)
- Familiarity with:
- SAP and D365 data extraction approaches
- BI tools (Example: Power BI)
- Data governance, privacy, and security
- Experience working in large-scale multi-brand or multi-country organisations
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How We Work
We thrive with a blend of flexibility and collaboration. Our workplace model combines remote work for focus with in-person sessions for connection and teamwork — whether in offices or offsite. On average, 67%+ of your time will be spent in collaboration.
We value diverse perspectives and encourage applications — experience doesn’t have to be 100% aligned with the desired criteria.
What We Offer
- A dynamic, inclusive environment that sparks innovation. We welcome new ideas, support creative experimentation, and ensure everyone can be their best self.
- Privilege to explore Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) opportunities at Kingfisher.
- A competitive benefits package with room for your development and growth.
[Learn more about our benefits and D&I commitments here.]
Why Kingfisher?
We serve customers from all walks of life and believe our workplace should reflect that diversity. We commit to equal treatment regardless of age, gender, marital status, ethnicity, culture, religion, political opinion, disability, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
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