Data Architect

About the Role

Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

We’re looking for a Data Architect to play a key role in shaping and delivering data services utilising our new Microsoft Fabric data platform within [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] and Money Services. This is a pivotal role at a critical point in our data journey. You’ll provide key technical and architectural skills across data modelling, analytics and platform design, ensuring our data foundations are robust, governed and built for long term use. You’ll work closely with engineers, analysts, product teams and senior stakeholders to translate business and regulatory needs into clear, scalable data architectures.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Define and own data architecture patterns, standards and target state designs for our Microsoft Fabric platform, ensuring consistency across ingestion, storage, semantic modelling and consumption layers.
• Lead the design and governance of enterprise and domain data models, from conceptual and logical models through to physical implementations optimised for Fabric (Lakehouse, Warehouse and semantic models).
• Partner with data engineers, analytics engineers and platform teams to ensure data models are correctly implemented, performant and aligned to architectural intent.
• Shape and assure the semantic layer (e.g. shared dimensions, facts and metrics), enabling trusted, reusable analytics and reducing duplication across teams.
• Work with Product, Business and Data Owners to translate business concepts, KPIs and regulatory requirements into clear, well governed data structures.
• Embed data quality, lineage, metadata and lifecycle management into all designs, aligned to data governance, privacy and regulatory obligations.
• Provide architectural assurance across change initiatives, balancing speed of delivery with long term data integrity, resilience and operational sustainability.
• Mentor and coach engineers and analysts on data modelling best practice, raising overall data architecture maturity across the organisation.

We Need You to Have

• Proven experience as a Data Architect working across modern analytics and data platforms.
• Strong, hands on expertise in data modelling, including: Conceptual and logical enterprise data models; Dimensional modelling (facts, dimensions, star/snowflake schemas); Experience designing semantic layers for self service analytics.
• Experience designing data architectures on cloud based platforms, ideally Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse, or equivalent lakehouse style platforms.
• Deep understanding of how data models support analytics, reporting, AI/ML and operational use cases, not just storage.
• Ability to work effectively in Agile and product led environments, providing clear architectural direction without becoming a delivery bottleneck.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to explain complex data concepts clearly to both technical and non technical audiences.

And if you have any of these, even better

• Experience working in regulated or customer critical environments (e.g. financial services, insurance), with an understanding of data risk, privacy and regulatory constraints.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Fabric components such as Lakehouse, Warehouse, Data Factory, OneLake and Power BI semantic models.
• Experience aligning data architecture with data governance, ownership models and operating frameworks.
• Background supporting or enabling AI / advanced analytics through well designed data foundations.

What’s in It for You

• Colleague pension scheme to support your future.
• Private Medical Insurance (WL2+) and Virtual GP service for you and your family.
• Performance related annual bonus.
• Generous holiday allowance – minimum 7.2 weeks, with options to buy more.
• Colleague Clubcard with up to 15% discount and a second card to share.
• Enhanced family friendly policies, including maternity, shared parental and paternity leave.
• Access to award winning learning and development opportunities to support your long term career.
• Buy as You Earn and Save As You Earn share schemes.

Why [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] and Money Services?

Seeing your impact all around you: there's no better feeling. Lucky for us, we get to feel it all the time. Because whatever our role, we're helping our colleagues and serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day.

We deal in the personal – from pet insurance for your best friend, and home insurance for peace of mind, to motor insurance for your dream car or travel money for that trip you’ve worked hard for.

Everything we do is about making things better. Not just for others, but for you too. It's why you'll get bags of choice and plenty of development. It's why you'll always be heard and find balance that works for you. It's why you'll feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome.

How to Apply

We value our people and diverse teams. If you’re interested in finding out more about what a career at [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] and Money Services looks like, click apply to find out more!