Data Architect- Perm role Salary- £94K base + benefits Hybrid- 3 days a week travel to the office in Central London We are hiring a Data Architect to define, design, and evolve enterprise data architecture across modern cloud and lakehouse platforms. You will translate business, analytics, and AI requirements into robust data models, integration patterns, platform standards and governance controls that create trusted, reusable data assets. This is a Data Architect who is a Databricks engineer by trade. This is a senior technical leadership role with architecture ownership scope: you will shape data architecture principles, guide design reviews, collaborate with engineering and analytics teams, and make practical trade-offs across data modelling, integration, governance, performance, security, cost, and operational resilience. Duties andamp; Responsibilities:- Lead the design and evolution of enterprise data architecture that supports business intelligence, analytics, automation, and AI use cases Develop conceptual, logical, and physical data models for core business domains, data products, reporting layers and analytical platforms Define data integration patterns, data flow designs, and reusable architecture standards for batch, streaming, API-based, and event-driven data movement Establish data governance, data quality, metadata, lineage, security, and privacy standards in partnership with engineering, governance, and business stakeholders Collaborate with data ..... full job details .....