Senior Data Architect

Overview We are seeking a Senior Data Architect to join one of our client and lead the design and delivery of modern data platforms and analytics architectures within a fast-paced, client-facing environment. You will act as the Databricks champion within the business, shaping best practice, guiding delivery teams, and supporting stakeholders through pre-sales and solution definition. Key ResponsibilitiesOwn end-to-end data architecture across lakehouse, warehouse, and streaming patterns, ensuring scalability, security, and governance.Act as Databricks champion: define standards, reference architectures, accelerators, and reusable assets.Lead architectural design for Databricks (workspaces, clusters, jobs, Delta Lake, Unity Catalogue, MLflow) and integrations with cloud services.Partner with pre-sales teams to shape propositions, run discovery, produce high-quality proposals, and present solutions to senior client audiences (pre-sales experience is essential).Translate business requirements into target-state data models, ingestion patterns, and semantic layers.Guide engineers on implementation, performance optimisation, cost control, CI/CD, and operational readiness.Ensure compliance with data governance, privacy, and security controls (RBAC, encryption, auditing, lineage).Essential RequirementsSignificant Databricks experience required, including production-scale deployments and optimisation.Strong hands-on capability with Spark/SQL, Delta Lake, orchestration, and data ..... full job details .....