Data Solution Architect

Coventry
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Data Solution Architect
Location: Coventry (Hybrid – 3 days onsite)
Contract: 6 months
Rate: £550–£595/day (Inside IR35)

About the Role

We are seeking a highly experienced Data Solution Architect to lead the design and delivery of large-scale, cloud-native data platforms within a complex enterprise environment.

This is a hands-on architecture role focused on building scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions across Azure, Databricks, and Microsoft Fabric, supporting real-time analytics, AI/ML initiatives, telemetry integrations, and enterprise-wide data transformation.

The successful candidate will have proven experience managing petabyte-scale (1000TB+) data environments, with exposure to utilities, telemetry, IoT, or SCADA systems considered highly advantageous.

Key Responsibilities

  • Architect and deliver secure, scalable data platforms across Azure, Databricks, and Microsoft Fabric.

  • Design real-time and batch data processing solutions using modern ETL/ELT patterns.

  • Integrate structured and unstructured sources including SCADA, SAP, telemetry, APIs, and time-series data.

  • Implement data governance frameworks including lineage, masking, encryption, and regulatory compliance (GDPR, ISO 27001).

  • Design petabyte-scale storage and compute architectures (Delta Lake, ADLS Gen2, Synapse, Cosmos DB).

  • Implement streaming/event-driven architectures using Kafka, Azure Event Hubs, IoT Hub.

  • Drive Infrastructure as Code and DevOps best practices (Terraform, Bicep, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions).

  • Lead AI/ML and analytics enablement using Databricks and Power BI.

  • Define monitoring, observability, HADR, and disaster recovery strategies.

  • Provide architectural leadership and mentor engineering teams.

    Essential Experience

  • Azure Data Factory, Synapse, Azure Databricks

  • ADLS Gen2, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Delta Lake

  • Azure Event Hub, Kafka, IoT Hub, ADX

  • Microsoft Fabric (including OneLake)

  • CI/CD (Azure DevOps, GitHub, ARM)

  • Data Governance tools (Purview, Unity Catalog)

  • MDM (Profisee, Informatica)

  • Security frameworks, IAM, RBAC, Zero Trust

  • Private networking (VNet, Private Endpoint, ExpressRoute)

  • Monitoring, logging, cost optimisation

  • Experience working with large-scale, unstructured data environments

    Desirable Experience

  • Utilities industry background

  • SCADA / eSCADA / telemetry systems

  • SAP PM / GIS integrations

  • Collibra

  • Python, Kusto

    If you are an experienced Data Architect with strong Azure cloud expertise and experience in real-time, enterprise-scale environments, we would love to hear from you

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