Gazelle Global
Data Architect
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This role is for a Principal Data Architect on an initial 6-month contract, hybrid in Warwick, UK, with a competitive pay rate inside IR35. Key skills include extensive data architecture experience, cloud platforms (Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, Azure), and data governance expertise.
🌎 - Country
United Kingdom
💱 - Currency
£ GBP
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💰 - Day rate
Unknown
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🗓️ - Date
February 4, 2026
🕒 - Duration
More than 6 months
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🏝️ - Location
Hybrid
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📄 - Contract
Inside IR35
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🔒 - Security
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
Warwick, England, United Kingdom
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#Compliance #Migration #AI (Artificial Intelligence) #Snowflake #Databricks #Agile #Data Migration #Leadership #Data Engineering #BI (Business Intelligence) #Data Integration #Data Governance #ML (Machine Learning) #Azure Databricks #"ETL (Extract #Transform #Load)" #Security #Azure #Microsoft Power BI #NoSQL #GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) #Scala #Cloud #Data Science #Data Visualisation #Data Architecture
Role description
Role Principal Data Architect
Contract Inside IR35
Location Warwick UK hybrid
Rate Competitive inside IR35
Duration Initial 6 months with strong extension potential
Overview
We are seeking an experienced Principal Data Architect to define and govern enterprise grade data architecture across complex, large scale data platforms. This role sits at the intersection of architecture, data engineering, analytics, and advanced data science, ensuring data products are secure, scalable, compliant, and commercially valuable.
Key Responsibilities
• Own end to end data architecture for enterprise scale data initiatives
• Define and govern data architecture standards, patterns, and guardrails
• Design cloud based data platforms and integration solutions
• Ensure compliance with governance, security, privacy, and regulatory frameworks including GDPR and SoX
• Provide architectural leadership across data engineering, analytics, and ML use cases
• Guide delivery teams on performance, resilience, scalability, and cost optimisation
• Act as the senior data architecture authority and trusted advisor to senior stakeholders
• Support agile delivery, prioritisation, and architectural decision making
Essential Skills and Experience
• Extensive experience in data architecture and data engineering at enterprise scale
• Cloud data platforms Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, Azure, Databricks
• Data integration ETL ELT CDC streaming APIs and messaging
• Advanced data modelling relational dimensional and NoSQL
• Data governance, security, RBAC, privacy, and compliance
• Power BI and modern data visualisation tools
• Azure ML, ML AI including generative and agentic AI exposure
• End to end delivery of complex cloud data platforms
• Snowflake performance tuning and cost optimisation
• Large scale data migration and modernisation experience
Leadership and Stakeholder Skills
• Operates with high autonomy and accountability
• Strong influence at senior technical and business level
• Comfortable leading architecture across multiple teams
• Clear communicator who simplifies complex data topics
Role Principal Data Architect
Contract Inside IR35
Location Warwick UK hybrid
Rate Competitive inside IR35
Duration Initial 6 months with strong extension potential
Overview
We are seeking an experienced Principal Data Architect to define and govern enterprise grade data architecture across complex, large scale data platforms. This role sits at the intersection of architecture, data engineering, analytics, and advanced data science, ensuring data products are secure, scalable, compliant, and commercially valuable.
Key Responsibilities
• Own end to end data architecture for enterprise scale data initiatives
• Define and govern data architecture standards, patterns, and guardrails
• Design cloud based data platforms and integration solutions
• Ensure compliance with governance, security, privacy, and regulatory frameworks including GDPR and SoX
• Provide architectural leadership across data engineering, analytics, and ML use cases
• Guide delivery teams on performance, resilience, scalability, and cost optimisation
• Act as the senior data architecture authority and trusted advisor to senior stakeholders
• Support agile delivery, prioritisation, and architectural decision making
Essential Skills and Experience
• Extensive experience in data architecture and data engineering at enterprise scale
• Cloud data platforms Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, Azure, Databricks
• Data integration ETL ELT CDC streaming APIs and messaging
• Advanced data modelling relational dimensional and NoSQL
• Data governance, security, RBAC, privacy, and compliance
• Power BI and modern data visualisation tools
• Azure ML, ML AI including generative and agentic AI exposure
• End to end delivery of complex cloud data platforms
• Snowflake performance tuning and cost optimisation
• Large scale data migration and modernisation experience
Leadership and Stakeholder Skills
• Operates with high autonomy and accountability
• Strong influence at senior technical and business level
• Comfortable leading architecture across multiple teams
• Clear communicator who simplifies complex data topics
