Robert Walters is partnering with a leading consumer-focused organisation undergoing significant investment in its enterprise data capabilities to recruit a Data Platform Architect. This is an excellent opportunity for either an established Data Architect or a Senior/Lead Data Engineer looking to step into their first formal architecture role. You will take technical ownership of the evolution of a modern cloud-based data platform, helping define the architecture, standards and engineering patterns needed to support analytics, data products and an expanding AI strategy. While the existing environment is built predominantly on Google Cloud Platform, the client is open to candidates from AWS, Azure or other modern cloud data environments. Strong GCP experience is highly desirable, but broader cloud architecture and engineering capability is more important. What you''ll be doing Define and evolve the architecture of a modern cloud-based enterprise data platform Work hands-on alongside Data Engineers to implement architectural changes and new engineering patterns Assess new data technologies and solutions against wider business and technology objectives Establish scalable, secure and reusable approaches to data ingestion, transformation and integration Support engineering teams with architecture decisions, technical standards and platform best practice Develop monitoring, alerting and observability approaches across the data platform Translate security, privacy and governance ..... full job details .....