About The Company
Youngs Employment Services is a reputable recruitment agency dedicated to connecting talented professionals with leading organizations across various industries. With a strong focus on quality service and industry expertise, we strive to match candidates with roles that align with their skills, experience, and career aspirations. Our commitment to integrity and excellence has established us as a trusted partner in the employment sector, providing tailored recruitment solutions to both clients and candidates. We take pride in understanding market trends and maintaining a vast network of industry contacts to facilitate successful placements.
About The Role
We are currently seeking a highly skilled Data Architect to join a prominent global entertainment company based in Central London. This role offers an exciting opportunity to lead the development and management of the company's data architecture, supporting critical commercial decisions such as pricing, marketing measurement, forecasting, and trading. The successful candidate will work in a hybrid environment, combining work from home with central London office presence, and will be instrumental in shaping the organization’s data strategy across multiple markets including the UK, US, and Europe.
The Data Architect will be responsible for defining data models, establishing standards, and ensuring the integrity, security, and usability of data across the enterprise. This position requires a strategic thinker with a deep understanding of cloud data platforms, data modeling, and cross-functional collaboration. The role involves working closely with various teams such as data engineering, analytics, product management, finance, legal, and IT to deliver scalable, secure, and high-quality data solutions that underpin business growth and innovation.
Qualifications
The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in data architecture within a commercial environment where data influences revenue, pricing, trading, or marketing decisions. Strong conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling skills are essential, including expertise in dimensional and event-based approaches. Hands-on experience with modern cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, AWS, Azure, or GCP is highly desirable, along with proficiency in ELT processes, APIs, streaming, batch data integration, and data contracts.
Practical skills in SQL, Python, and transformation tools like dbt are necessary to execute data modeling and transformation tasks effectively. Candidates should have experience working with large-scale consumer, digital, and transactional data, including web analytics and GA4. An understanding of data design for machine learning, artificial intelligence, and automated decision-making processes is also important. Knowledge of privacy, security, and compliance standards such as GDPR across multiple jurisdictions is required, along with the ability to communicate complex architecture concepts effectively to senior stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the target data architecture for commercial data across multiple regions, including the UK, US, and Europe.
- Define and maintain common business entities, definitions, hierarchies, keys, and data contracts across various source systems and markets to ensure data consistency and trustworthiness.
- Design and architect data products that support core functions such as pricing, revenue management, marketing measurement, forecasting, and trading.
- Develop data models for consumer, digital, financial, and operational data that connect behavioral insights, investments, sales, and performance metrics.
- Embed privacy, security, consent, data retention, and cross-border data requirements into the architecture from the outset to ensure compliance and data protection.
- Establish standards for how analytics, machine learning, AI services, and agents access structured data securely and reliably.
- Create comprehensive data models, data flow diagrams, lineage documentation, architecture decision records, and reusable design patterns for engineering and business teams.
- Review and validate architectural designs, challenge assumptions when necessary, and represent data architecture in cross-team forums to promote best practices and consistency.
Benefits
Our client offers a competitive salary package in the region of £95,000 to £100,000, commensurate with experience. Alongside the base salary, employees will enjoy an attractive benefits package that includes performance-based bonuses, comprehensive health insurance, pension schemes, and flexible working arrangements. The role provides an excellent opportunity for professional development within a dynamic and innovative environment, where your expertise will directly influence strategic business decisions. The company fosters a collaborative culture that values diversity, inclusion, and continuous learning, ensuring a rewarding career experience.
Equal Opportunity
Youngs Employment Services is committed to promoting diversity and equal opportunity in the workplace. We believe that a diverse workforce enhances innovation and reflects our commitment to fairness. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, regardless of race, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion, or any other characteristic protected by law. Our client ensures an inclusive environment where everyone has the opportunity to thrive and contribute to the company's success.