Digital Experience function hiring in: United KingdomWork Preference Option(s): Hybrid model | Work from Office JoinAscent and help shape the future of data solutions by becoming avalued team member where your skills matter, your impact issignificant, and your career can reach new heights. About Us We areAscent! and we help our customers solve problems, elevate, and doexisting things better. We are on a mission to help our customersconnect data, software, and purpose to create extraordinaryoutcomes. You could say we are a digital transformation business.We specialize in software product development, analytics, datascience, IoT solutions, machine learning, DevOps optimization, andmodernization of applications, data, and platforms. We work withincredible clients in all types of industries such as smart homedevices, space exploration, beer manufacturing, finance, ecology,and logistics. We work with some of the sharpest minds in thebrightest businesses and we employ the sharpest minds too! AtAscent, we also believe in fostering a vibrant office communitywhere collaboration thrives and connections flourish. With ourhybrid approach, we prioritize hiring individuals who reside inclose proximity to our central offices in Bristol and London. Ouraim is to cultivate a positive atmosphere and sense of belonging byfacilitating easy access to the office. Join us in shaping aworkplace where proximity enhances collaboration while inclusivitystrengthens our community. We are a Microsoft Azure focusedconsultancy and services company, specializing in App Innovation,Data, AI, and Cloud Infrastructure solutions. Recognized as aFabric Featured Partner by Microsoft, we build and deploy dataplatforms for our customers on Fabric, Databricks and Synapseanalytics, offering the opportunity to shape cutting-edge datainitiatives for a wide range of clients. About the role Our DataArchitects play a crucial role in shaping and optimising ourcustomers’ data landscape, ensuring robust, scalable, governedsolutions, built on the latest Azure technology using best practiceprocess and tools. You will be a practitioner and provide technicalleadership and strategic oversight to ensure our customers harnessdata effectively, driving return on investment for their business.If you're passionate about designing and building leading edge,high-performing data solutions that support business models andhelp drive customer’s future growth, this is the role for you. Yourresponsibilities will include: - Solution Design: Understand andelaborate customer vision and Architect cloud-based data platformsto meet their needs following Microsoft, Ascent and industry bestpractice. - Data Modelling & Design: Build and evolveconceptual, logical, and physical enterprise data models. - DataProducts: Elaborate customer requirements into actionable backlogitems ready for engineering by the development team into artefactslike data pipelines, notebooks, models, visualizations, etc. -Stakeholder Management: Collaborate and communicate with businessand technical stakeholders to ensure projects stay on track anddelight customers. - Pre-Sales: Identify new opportunities, drivenew project phases and provide technical input to the pre-salesteam based on project experience and expertise. - Knowledge:Staying up to date with advancements in the data ecosystem,particularly within the Microsoft technology stack, and mentoringdelivery teams on best practices. - Data Governance: Understandcustomer data governance requirements and how to address them insolution architecture and operational processes. KeyResponsibilities - Solution Architecture: Design solutions thatmeet clients’ functional and non-functional requirements, ensuringfit for purpose, scalability, performance, and maintainability. -Data Strategy & Roadmap: Define and document technical deliveryplans, ensuring clear next steps for the current phase and futureexpansion of projects. - Governance & Standards: Advocate andenforce best practices in data modelling, DataOps, CI/CD, andsecurity across projects. - Documentation & Knowledge Transfer:Maintain high-quality technical documentation, ensuring clarity forboth engineering teams and business stakeholders. - IndustryAwareness: Stay informed on Microsoft Fabric and comparableplatforms like Databricks and Synapse, understanding theirdifferences and relevance to projects. Experience & Skills Youshould have strong soft skills in stakeholder engagement, with theability to build technical credibility and take a consulting-ledapproach to sales and delivery. You will likely also have: -Hands-on architecture and implementation experience with MicrosoftFabric (preferred), along with familiarity with Azure Synapse andDatabricks. - Experience in core data platform technologies andmethods including Spark, Delta Lake, Medallion Architecture,pipelines, etc. - Experience leading medium to large-scale clouddata platform implementations, guiding teams through technicalchallenges and ensuring alignment with best practices. - Expertisein data modelling and Lakehouse architecture, particularly indesigning robust medallion architecture patterns (bronze, silver,gold layers). - Strong knowledge of CI/CD practices for datapipelines, ensuring automated, repeatable, and scalabledeployments. - Familiarity with open-source data tools such asSpark, and an understanding of how they complement cloud dataplatforms. - Experience creating and maintaining structuredtechnical roadmaps, ensuring successful delivery and futurescalability of data solutions. - A track record of providingtechnical input for pre-sales engagements, supporting proposaldevelopment by offering architectural insights. - Knowledge of datagovernance tools and processes like Purview and Unity Catalogue.Why Join Us? At Ascent, you’ll be working with a passionate team ofexperts in Microsoft Fabric, AI, and data-driven transformation.You’ll have the opportunity to lead cutting-edge projects, mentorengineering teams, and help shape the future of data platforms forour clients. Working at Ascent At Ascent we promote a healthywork-life balance by offering flexibility in where you work. Wealso promote well-being and provide access to Well Being Coaches.Your development and learning will be taken seriously, and we’llsupport your professional development with training andcertification, with regular feedback and review. It is a fun,supportive and modern workplace where we really live by our companyvalues of Empathy, Energy and Audacity! Ascent also offers avariety of benefits in each of our countries. Ascent is an equalopportunities employer. We take intentional steps to ensureinclusion and belonging are something real here, not just somethingwe talk about. No person will be treated less favorably because oftheir gender, pregnancy, and maternity status, marital or civilpartnership status, sexual orientation, race, nationality, ethnicorigin, age, religion or belief, or disability status. If yourequire any reasonable accommodation, please let us know when youapply. If you have any questions contact our Talent Acquisitionteam on . For more details about life at Ascent,check out our Life Page. Our customers. Ascent works with over 170businesses in the UK, Europe and North America. From globalinsurance, healthcare and retail to smart home devices, spaceexploration and cricket - we get to work with some of the sharpestminds in the brightest businesses. Developing an intuitive onlinetool for exterior landscaping design. Bringing on-demand to theUK’s favourite TV listing and review platform. RADIO TIMES Reducingcost, accelerating innovation and attracting new talent inhealthcare. PREMIER Taking CX to the next level with AI for 200,000members. INSTITUTE OF CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS Empowering theevolution of online learning for a leading global platform.LINKEDIN LEARNING Improving health and well-being through datatransformation. GSK BOSCH BREWDOG Empowering the actuarialcommunity to solve problems with R. SWISS RE Rebuilding a complexonline image editing application for scale. PICMONKEY Enabling datascience teams to drive class-leading consumer engagement. HARRODSSparking financial literacy and empowering young investors.RAIFFEISEN STEIERMARK Introducing formal QA processes, optimisingdelivery and improving software quality. Democratising data toengage new communities & protect the UK seabed. THE CROWNESTATE Evolving a global infrastructure team into a proven Centreof Excellence for cloud. BDO Optimising performance & supportwith 360° insight into the elite Women’s game. ENGLAND & WALESCRICKET BOARD Digitalising orders, boosting efficiency andsimplifying communication. STRABAG SYNGENTA Enhancing customerservice with an intuitive online portal for managing insurancepolicies and claim processing. GRAWE Creating a seamless UX tosimplify skin cancer risk assessments and build user trust.SKINSCREENER Improving experience and making life simpler for homeautomation customers. HIVE Developing an intuitive online tool forexterior landscaping design. MEYER Bringing on-demand to the UK’sfavourite TV listing and review platform. RADIO TIMES Reducingcost, accelerating innovation and attracting new talent inhealthcare. PREMIER Taking CX to the next level with AI for 200,000members. INSTITUTE OF CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS Empowering theevolution of online learning for a leading global platform.LINKEDIN LEARNING Improving health and well-being through datatransformation. GSK Why join Ascent? Joining Ascent means you’ll beinvolved in delivering exciting technology projects for leadingglobal brands. You’ll be part of a growing team of super-talentedpeople who are actively choosing to join us on our journey ratherthan working in big corporates. Your voice matters at Ascent. Weare always keen to hear your opinions and those ideas that come toyou at 3am (some of them are definitely as good as they seemed atthe time). You’ll develop your talent through our internal Academy,providing a wide range of personal development, up-skilling andcross-skilling opportunities. Need to know more? We’re here toanswer any questions you have about this role or any othersfeatured on the site. If you can’t see one that’s the perfect fitfor you, drop us a note and let us know what we’re missing.#J-18808-Ljbffr
