Lead Associate - Data Architect

Job description

The Data Architect plays a critical role in shaping, designing, and evolving Davies’ data platform across our suite of SaaS products. They are responsible for architecting scalable, sustainable, and secure data solutions that underpin both our internal analytics needs and our application microservices. This role leads the development of our data strategy, defining data‑centric architectural approaches, establishing a unified data ontology, and overseeing key capabilities including data ingestion, integration, migration, modelling, laking, and reporting. The Data Architect also provides oversight for BI and reporting processes, ensuring the business has timely access to high‑quality insights. Acting as a senior technical authority, the Data Architect ensures that data solutions comply with regulatory and contractual requirements—including data retention, security, anonymisation, and segregation—while championing long‑term, high‑quality engineering approaches over tactical workarounds. They represent the function at senior management level and play a key role in mentoring and supporting BI and data engineering professionals to ensure development standards are understood and adhered to.