Head of Data Architecture

Head of Data Architecture

Permanent | Hybrid - 2 days | Senior Individual Contributor + Small Team Leadership

We're working with a large, complex, UK-based organisation that is partway through a significant data transformation. The organisation runs a core SAP estate and is now modernising how data is structured, accessed and used across analytics and reporting.

The scope has been refined and clarified, with a much sharper focus on data architecture rather than engineering or governance ownership.

The Opportunity

This is a hands-on Head of Data Architecture role with genuine influence. The organisation has a clear data strategy in motion and now needs someone to own the architectural layer that sits between SAP and the modern analytics stack.

SAP remains the system of record, but the organisation is actively assessing how best to sit a cloud analytics platform on top Databricks or Microsoft Fabric, with Power BI as the reporting layer. That decision is not yet locked down, and this role will play a key part in shaping it.

What You'll Be Doing

• Owning and formalising the enterprise data architecture, with SAP at the core
• Defining how data is modelled, integrated and exposed from SAP into modern analytics platforms
• Helping shape the target-state architecture for Databricks or Fabric (rather than just implementing a pre-chosen tool)
• Setting data modelling standards (con...