About the Role We’re working with a market-leading organisation that’s undergoing a major transformation, moving from manual, Excel-based reporting to a fully automated, intelligence-driven data ecosystem. As Data Architect, you’ll be responsible for designing and implementing the Azure-based data platform that becomes the single source of truth across the business. This is a hands-on, strategic role where you’ll build scalable, governed data architecture and shape how data is used across Finance, Operations, and Commercial functions. What You’ll Be Doing Data Architecture & Platform Design Design and implement an enterprise data lake on Azure Data Lake Gen2, using Bronze/Silver/Gold architecture. Build and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines in Azure Data Factory to integrate data from core systems (AS400, Tagetik, CRM, Esker, Slimstock). Develop the overall data model, data dictionaries, and lineage documentation. Deliver a stable “batch-first” integration strategy with AS400 during its .NET migration, with a roadmap toward API integration. Data Governance & Quality Implement the technical foundation for data governance – quality checks, metadata management, and master data validation. Embed business rules and validation logic directly within data pipelines. Define and manage data security and access controls (Azure and Power BI row-level security). Implementati...