Experis UK
Platform Architect
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Rate: up to £524.40 per day - Umbrella only
Duration: 4 months
Location: London - 3 days a week in the office
Platform Architect
Platform Architect to lead the evolution of our Enterprise Data Platform (EDP), driving platform engineering, FinOps, DevOps automation, and data engineering capabilities across the organization.
This role is ideal for an architect who can combine strategic architecture leadership with DevOps, FinOps, and Data Engineering expertise to deliver measurable business value, modernize the EDP landscape, and drive significant operational and cost efficiencies.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead platform modernization initiatives aligned with enterprise technology and data strategies.
- Databricks Serverless Enablement
- Lead the design and implementation of Databricks Serverless capabilities across the platform.
- Establish governance and monitoring frameworks to track Serverless consumption and ROI.
- Establish workload governance.
- FinOps Enablement & Cost Governance
- Lead enterprise-wide FinOps adoption across the EDP ecosystem.
- Discovery Zone Enhancement & POSIT Migration
- Architect the expansion of the Enterprise Data Platform to support capabilities currently delivered through POSIT/RStudio.
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- FinOps Enablement & Cost Governance
- Define and implement a FinOps operating model.
- Establish cost accountability across business and engineering teams.
- Design tagging standards and policy controls.
- Implement automated cost governance within DevOps deployment pipelines.
- Enable user-level and project-level cost visibility and reporting.
- Implement budget controls, spending guardrails, and proactive alerting mechanisms.
- Discovery Zone Enhancement & POSIT Migration
- Design a consolidated analytics and data science platform on Databricks.
- Enable notebook-based development, data science experimentation, MLOps, API integrations, and application deployment.
- Support external data ingestion, scheduling, BI connectivity, developer tooling, and operational reporting.
- Enable AI and LLM integration patterns.
- Develop migration strategies for workloads currently hosted on POSIT.
- DevOps & Platform Engineering
- Define and implement platform engineering standards and self-service capabilities.
- Design Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform and cloud-native tooling.
- Implement CI/CD pipelines for platform deployments and data engineering workloads.
- Automate platform provisioning, governance, monitoring, and compliance controls.
- Integrate security and policy enforcement into DevSecOps processes.
- Establish platform observability using monitoring and logging frameworks.
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Essential
Required Experience
- SFIA level 6 and above
- Proven experience architecting large-scale cloud-based data platforms.
- Strong expertise in Databricks architecture and platform administration.
- Hands-on experience with Azure cloud services.
- Deep understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and automation frameworks.
- Experience implementing FinOps practices and cloud cost optimization strategies.
- Strong understanding of data governance, security, and compliance requirements.
- Experience leading platform transformation and modernization programmes.
- Stakeholder management experience across technical and business functions.
Technical Skills
- Azure and Terraform
- Platform Engineering
- Databricks Serverless capabilities.
- Cloud administration
- Platform cost management.
- Governance and compliance controls.
- Manage platform operational overhead.
- Manage platform reliability and performance.
- Manage security and supportability.
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