As a
Data Architect Lead, you will take a senior leadership role in shaping and governing Symbos enterprise data architecture. This role is critical in enabling scalable, secure and high-quality analytics that support data-driven decision-making across the business.
You will own the design, build and ongoing evolution of a modern enterprise data platform, with a strong focus on the Microsoft data ecosystem. Acting as a trusted technical advisor, you will work closely with business, analytics, engineering and platform teams to deliver robust, enterprise-grade data solutions.
What you'll be responsible for
Advanced analytics and data science leadership
- Leading the analysis and interpretation of complex data sets to drive meaningful business insights
- Designing, governing and optimising statistical, predictive and machine learning models
- Embedding data-driven insights into business workflows and decision-making
- Translating complex analytical outputs into clear, actionable insights for senior stakeholders
Modern data platform and data warehouse architecture
- Designing and evolving a scalable, cloud-based data warehouse and lakehouse architecture
- Overseeing data pipelines for ingestion, transformation and modelling across multiple source systems
- Driving best-practice adoption of Microsoft Fabric, including lakehouse, warehouse, pipelines and semantic models
- Ensuring platforms are secure, performant, resilient and cost-efficient
Data tooling and analytics enablement
- Providing technical leadership across the modern data and analytics stack
- Governing high-quality analytical datasets and semantic models
- Ensuring Power BI dashboards and reporting support executive decision-making
- Identifying opportunities to uplift analytics capability across the Microsoft ecosystem
Data governance and quality
- Owning data quality frameworks across pipelines, models and datasets
- Defining validation, reconciliation and quality assurance standards
- Ensuring compliance with data governance, security and regulatory requirements
- Maintaining clear documentation across data models, pipelines and processes
Stakeholder engagement and leadership
- Partnering with business and technology stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable solutions
- Presenting architectural decisions and insights to technical and non-technical audiences
- Leading, mentoring and uplifting analysts and engineers across data and analytics practices
What we're looking for
- Minimum of 10 years experience in a senior or leadership role within data architecture or analytics
- Strong expertise in enterprise data architecture, including data warehousing and lakehouse design
- Hands-on experience with modern cloud data platforms, ideally within the Microsoft ecosystem
- Strong understanding of data modelling, integration patterns and analytics enablement
- Solid knowledge of data governance, security, access controls and data quality frameworks
- Proven experience influencing stakeholders and leading technical direction
Technical Requirements (non-negotiable)
- Power BI
- SQL and cloud-based data stores
- API-based data services
Nice to have
- Microsoft Fabric
- Azure-based data services
Why join Symbos
You will be part of a growing, people-first organisation where data plays a critical role in shaping strategy and outcomes. This role offers the opportunity to influence enterprise-level decisions, lead modern data initiatives and help uplift analytics maturity across the organisation.
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