Adroit People Limited (UK)
Platform Architect
Wokingham
Posted about 19 hours ago
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Greetings
We are Hiring Data Platform Architect - Wokingham UK
3 days onsite
Hybrid
Need a strong Data Platform solution architect - Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Azure Event hub, data and solution architecture, first class communication and stakeholder skills. They will be based in Wokingham, UK, no scope for remote and long travels.
Key Responsibilities
Platform architecture & strategy
- Own the end-to-end architecture of the Data Platform: the medallion lakehouse (Bronze/Silver/Gold), Unity Catalog governance model, federated workspace strategy, and Data Mesh publication process for Systems of Record (SoRs).
- Set and evolve the platform's design principles, reference architectures and ways-of-working; author and maintain ARB-ready High-Level Design (HLD) documents.
- Make and justify strategic technology decisions (build vs buy, tooling selection, integration patterns), defending platform coherence against competing or overlapping tools where appropriate.
Governance, security & compliance (CNI)
- Ensure the platform meets CNI security requirements: private endpoints, VNet injection, network isolation, and Unity Catalog RBAC.
- Own data governance across the estate — access management, classification, lineage and the controls that govern how classified datasets are consumed by internal teams and external platforms.
- Act as a technical gatekeeper for data-sharing and integration requests, ensuring contractual, licensing and classification clearances are in place before data leaves the platform.
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Enablement & delivery
- Enable 10+ teams to self-serve safely: maintain reusable platform IP and accelerators (e.g. data quality frameworks, reference-data tooling, data discovery/explorer capabilities, MDM patterns, API wrappers).
- Provide senior technical leadership and design assurance across ingestion, transformation, ML/MLOps (MLflow) and BI (Power BI gateway) workstreams.
- Lead complex integration architectures (e.g. source-system migrations, third-party analytics platform integration via Delta Sharing / JDBC patterns, enterprise service integration).
FinOps & operations
- Own cost governance and FinOps for the platform: forecasting, bottom-up cost-driver modelling across subscriptions, and commercial commitment (e.g. MACC) management.
- Ensure platform reliability, observability and operational
Stakeholder leadership
- Act as the trusted technical advisor to platform stakeholders, delivery teams, security, and senior leadership; translate complex architecture into clear decisions and trade-offs.
- Represent the platform at architecture governance forums and to external vendors and partners.
Essential Skills, Experience, and Qualifications
Essential skills & experience
- Substantial experience as a data platform / solutions architect on cloud-native data platforms, including a leadership or technical-authority role on a significant enterprise platform.
- Deep, hands-on expertise with Azure Databricks and the Lakehouse architecture, including Unity Catalog governance, medallion design, and Delta Lake.
- Strong Azure data platform skills: ADLS Gen2, Azure Data Factory (ADF), networking (private endpoints, VNets), and Azure security/identity.
- Proven ability to design and document architecture to a high standard (HLDs, reference architectures, design principles) and to steer decisions through formal governance (ARB or equivalent).
- Track record of building governed, self-service data platforms at scale — data mesh / federated models, RBAC, data quality and lineage.
- Solid grounding in data engineering (Spark, SQL, Python) sufficient to lead and assure technical delivery.
- Experience with FinOps / cloud cost governance on a large estate.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills — able to influence senior leadership and lead across many delivery teams.
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Desirable
- Experience in CNI, regulated, or high-security environments (SC clearance, private-endpoint/zero-trust networking, e.g. Zscaler).
- MLOps experience (MLflow, model governance) and BI platform architecture (Power BI, on-prem/VNet gateways).
- Experience integrating third-party analytics platforms (e.g. Palantir Foundry) and enterprise systems (Salesforce, Oracle) with a governed lakehouse.
- Relevant certifications (e.g. Databricks Data Engineer/Architect, Azure Solutions Architect).
- Familiarity with the energy sector or other critical infrastructure domains.
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Skills
Azure Databricks
Azure Data Factory
Azure Event Hub
Unity Catalog
Lakehouse Architecture
Data Mesh
Medallion Architecture
FinOps
Spark
SQL
Python
Power BI
MLflow
Network Security
Stakeholder Management
Solution Architecture