Azure Data Architect
Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements:- Proven experience as a Data Architect delivering Azure-based data platforms
- Strong background designing enterprise-scale data warehouse and analytics solutions
- Extensive experience with Azure SQL
- Extensive experience with Azure Data Factory
- Extensive experience with Power BI
- Extensive experience with Azure DevOps
- Experience delivering greenfield data platform implementations
- Strong understanding of dimensional modelling and modern data warehouse design
- Experience developing scalable, secure and maintainable cloud architectures
- Expertise establishing CI/CD and DevOps practices for data platforms
- Strong stakeholder management and requirements gathering skills
- Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience working within Agile delivery environments
- Data governance and data quality frameworks
- Azure security and access control architecture
- Consultancy, technology consulting or professional services experience
- Experience within highly regulated environments
- Current UK Security Clearance (SC) or eligibility to obtain clearance
- Microsoft Azure certifications, including Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Azure Data Engineer Associate
- Leading the architecture and delivery of a new Azure-based data warehouse platform
- Reviewing, challenging and enhancing existing high-level solution designs
- Collaborating with engineering teams to produce detailed technical designs
- Defining architecture standards, best practices and long-term technology roadmaps
- Providing hands-on technical leadership throughout delivery
- Working alongside Data Engineers to build production-ready solutions
- Reviewing code, designs and technical deliverables to ensure quality and consistency
- Driving architectural decisions across security, governance, scalability and performance
- Engaging with business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions
- Supporting deployment, release management and CI/CD processes within Azure DevOps
- Promoting modern engineering practices across data, cloud and DevOps teams
- Architect
- Azure
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- Data Warehouse
- DevOps
- MS Teams
- Power BI
- SQL
- Security
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We are partnering with a growing consultancy undertaking a major transformation programme and seeking a hands-on Azure Data Architect to lead the design and delivery of a modern Azure Data Warehouse solution. This is a highly visible role where you will influence architecture strategy, drive technical decisions, and work closely with engineering teams to deliver a scalable, secure and future-proof data platform. The role is remote first and UK-based only, with ad hoc meetings in South Wales/Southwest. The day rate is £575.00 - £625.00, initially for 3 months with likely extension. The interview process is one stage via MS Teams, and the ideal start date is end of September. We operate in a hands-on environment where architecture is closely aligned with delivery, and we value modern engineering practices across data, cloud and DevOps teams.
last updated 36 week of 2026