Senior Data Architect

Role: Data Architect(Technical Architect) Location: Leeds, UK Work Mode: Hybrid two days onsite Experience: 10–15 Years (minimum 5+ years in Databricks) Start Date: Immediate / As soon as possible Job Summary :We are looking for an experienced Databricks Architect/Data Engineer to design, build, and optimize our Lakehouse architecture on Databricks. You will play a key role in shaping our data strategy, ensuring scalability, performance, and governance while working with Delta Lake, Data Catalog, and PySpark . Key Responsibilitie s:✔ Databricks Lakehouse Architecture: Design and implement scalable Databricks Lakehouse solutions with Delta Lake for optimized storage and analytic s.✔ Data Governance & Cataloging: Establish data cataloging, lineage, and metadata management for improved discoverabilit y.✔ Performance Optimization: Tune Spark/PySpark jobs for efficiency in large-scale data processin g.✔ Data Modelling & Quality: Develop dimensional/data vault models and enforce data quality check s.✔ Collaboration: Work with data scientists, analysts, and business teams to enable self-service analytic s.✔ CI/CD & Automation: Implement Databricks workflows and integrate with Azure/AWS/GCP data ecosystem s. Primary Skills (Must-Hav e):✅ Databricks – Architecture, Delta Lake, Lakehouse, Unity Catalog/Data Cata log✅ PySpark (optimization, UDFs, Delta operatio ns)✅ SQL (advanced querying, performance tuni ng)✅ Data Lake/Warehouse best practi ces Secondary Skills (Nice-to-Ha ve):🔹 Python (for scripting & automat ion)🔹 Data Modelling (star schema, Kimball, Data Va ult)🔹 Data Quality/Validation framew orks🔹 ETL/ELT pipel ines