Data Architect

Description

Data Architect / Solution Architect

Location: Glasgow or Edinburgh (Hybrid)

Overview

One of the top UK's Mutual Life and Pension Companies are seeking an experienced Data Architect / Solution Architect to support a strategic transformation programme focused on bringing policy administration and associated data services back in-house. This role will combine data architecture, solution architecture and large-scale migration expertise, helping define both the target-state architecture and the transition approach from legacy and third-party platforms into Royal London's future technology landscape. The successful candidate will play a key role in shaping end-to-end solutions, making critical architecture decisions, and ensuring business, technology and regulatory requirements are met throughout the programme.

Key Requirements

Essential

Experience

Proven Experience as a Data Architect, Solution Architect, or Hybrid Data/Solution Architect on complex transformation programmes. Strong Experience delivering large-scale data migration and platform transformation initiatives. Ability to design and govern end-to-end solution architectures, covering applications, integrations, data flows and target operating models. Experience working across both legacy and cloud-based technology environments. Strong understanding of Cloud/Azure technologies ideally, including: Azure Data Lake Azure Data Factory Databricks Synapse Analytics Azure SQL Strong data modelling, integration and enterprise architecture skills. Excellent stakeholder management and ability to communicate architectural decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Industry

Experience

Financial Services Experience is essential. Experience operating within highly regulated environments. Experience supporting large-scale business or technology change programmes.

Highly Desirable

Experience supporting Mergers & Acquisitions, business integrations, separations or carve-outs. Experience leading architecture workstreams across complex organisational change programmes. Experience with policy administration or customer data platforms. Knowledge of data governance, lineage, compliance and regulatory reporting.

Key Responsibilities

Define and govern both data architecture and solution architecture across the strategic transformation programme Lead architecture decisions relating to data migration, integration, application design and target-state solutions. Create transition architectures that support migration from legacy and third-party platforms while avoiding long-term technical debt. Design scalable, secure and compliant end-to-end solutions across business and technology domains. Collaborate with engineering, platform, security, data and business teams to ensure solutions align with strategic objectives. Provide architectural leadership and challenge across programme delivery teams. Support senior stakeholders in evaluating trade-offs between risk, cost, speed and long-term business value.

Ideal Candidate

An experienced Data Architect or Solution Architect with deep data migration expertise, Financial Services Experience and exposure to complex integration or M&A programmes. Comfortable operating at both strategic and hands-on levels, with the ability to shape end-to-end solutions while driving key architectural decisions across a major transformation programme.

Skills Migration Azure Job Title:

Data Architect Location:

Edinburgh, UK Job Type:

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