Enterprise Data Architect

Enterprise Data Architect Location: Birmingham (UK) / HybridDepartment: Digital and Technology (E15) At Compass Group UKandI, we''re more than just the UK''s leading contract catering company - we''re driving digital transformation across the business. Our Digital and Technology team is at the heart of this journey, creating cutting-edge solutions that improve efficiency, elevate customer experiences, and deliver real business impact. The Role We''re looking for an Enterprise Data Architect to play a pivotal role in shaping the enterprise-wide data architecture that underpins our data, reporting and analytics ambitions. You''ll act as the owner of the enterprise data view, defining how data is structured, governed, integrated and reused across Compass. Working closely with Data and Analytics teams, Enterprise Architects and Solution Architects, you''ll ensure data initiatives are aligned to business priorities and designed for long-term value - not short-term fixes. This is a strategic, influential role, balancing future-state architecture with delivery-aware guidance that enables teams to move faster with confidence. What You''ll Be Responsible For Defining and evolving the current and target-state enterprise data architectureOwning the data domain architecture roadmap and backlogEstablishing and driving adoption of data architecture principles, standards and guardrailsShaping data integration, acquisition and pipeline patterns across platformsOwning enterprise data ..... full job details .....