Principal consultant - data architect

🏢 Office locations considered: Newbury, Reading, London, Liverpool or Glasgow.

Are you a creative genius with a passion for data architecture? If you are, we are on the hunt for a Data Architect who can weave their magic and bring our data dreams to life!


The Team

We're Intuita - a fast-growing consultancy that's making waves in both the consultancy and technology space. As part of the wider FSP Consulting group, we have ambitious goals for the year ahead and are looking for talented individuals to complement the team of experts we already have working across our business, becoming a pivotal part of our journey, not just to meet but continuously exceed our client expectations!

Our ethos:

* Do the right thing — even when it's not the easy thing
* Build relationships grounded in honesty and transparency
* Prioritise expertise and quality above all else

In this strategic role, you will work closely with our Engineering Associate Directors and Principal Consultants to define, design and govern high‑quality data architectures across complex client environments. You'll bring deep architectural expertise, strong communication skills, and the ability to translate business challenges into scalable, future‑proof data solutions.


The Role

We are looking for a Data Architect to join our growing team. This position suits someone who blends hands‑on architectural design with strategic leadership, comfortable guiding both clients and engineering teams toward robust, sustainable and high‑quality outcomes.

* Define, own and evolve enterprise‑grade data architectures, ensuring scalability, sustainability and alignment with client objectives.
* Lead the design of cloud‑based data platforms, semantic layers, integration patterns and data models. Establish governance standards, frameworks and principles that guide engineering teams.
* Act as a trusted technical partner to clients, shaping their data strategy, advising senior stakeholders and articulating architecture decisions with clarity and confidence.
* Create and enforce architectural guidelines, including modelling standards, reference architectures, blueprints and reusable components to ensure consistent delivery quality.
* Stay current with emerging data platform technologies, architectural patterns and cloud-native capabilities. Proactively share insights and drive innovation across the wider engineering team.
* Periodically attend client sites to enhance relationships and ensure architectural direction aligns with strategic outcomes.
* As a Data Architect, you should embody these values and bring a mix of technical depth, strategic thinking and excellent communication skills.


Qualifications

* Extensive experience defining and delivering data architectures in large-scale, enterprise or transformation programmes.
* Strong background in data modelling methodologies (Kimball, 3NF, Data Vault, dimensional modelling).
* Experience with modern data transformation approaches — familiarity with DBT and analytics engineering principles is beneficial.
* Deep understanding of data platforms, orchestration, metadata management, CI/CD and architectural components such as DevOps, Azure Data Factory, BigQuery, Databricks, MS Fabric, Airflow, Snowflake etc.
* Demonstrated experience architecting solutions using medallion architectures, including curated gold‑layer models designed for analytics consumption.
* Strong knowledge of unity catalog (or similar), data governance, lineage, cataloguing and metadata‑driven design.
* Awareness of cloud economics, cost optimisation strategies and designing solutions that balance performance with value.
* Experience with infrastructure as code, especially Terraform, to ensure architectural consistency and deployment scalability.
* Ability to inspire, guide and elevate cross‑functional engineering teams.
* Solid understanding of Agile delivery and cross‑functional collaboration.


Nice to Have's

* Experience working in a consultancy, able to navigate diverse clients and industries.
* Relevant certifications (e.g., Azure Data Architect, AWS/GCP Architect, Databricks).
* Industry domain experience: financial services, telecoms, ecommerce, retail, or others.
* Experience designing semantic layers and BI‑friendly data structures (e.g., Power BI models).
* Familiarity with enterprise data management tools such as Azure Purview or Collibra (cataloguing, lineage, data quality).


What's in it for you?

* 🏠 (Really) flexible hybrid working — we don't mind when, where or how you work; you are trusted to work in the way that suits you best.
* 🧠 Genuine care and support for your health and wellbeing — free therapy sessions, financial education, birthday treats and much more.
* 🚀 Incredible training and learning opportunities — you'll be surrounded by the best in the business and encouraged to keep growing.
* ✨ Freedom and empowerment to own problems and explore new ideas — we allow our consultants to actually be consultants, not just bodies.
* 🧑🤝🧑 A supportive, friendly team — we work hard and enjoy spending time together, whether it's in person at socials or via silly Slack conversations.
* 🐶 Dog friendly offices — we're a team of dog lovers, so we've made our offices dog friendly!
* An enhanced benefits package.

If you require any support with your application, please contact recruitment@intuitaconsulting.com.

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