Data Architect, GUARDIAN NEWS AND MEDIA

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Join our team at the Guardian and be a part of a diverse and inclusive global organisation that delivers fearless, investigative journalism, and holds power to account. Our team of award-winning journalists, cutting-edge commercial professionals, and industry-leading digital experts are committed to making a difference and represent a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives. We offer a challenging and exciting environment for career development, with a focus on training, growth and fostering an inclusive culture.

We are now looking for a Data Architect to join the Guardian News & Media’s (GNM) Group Technology & Data team. At GNM we see data as an asset that is critical for informing our business and driving performance. Data supports all areas of operations: informing our editors’ choices; supporting advertising revenue; and supporting our reader revenue teams to acquire more supporters and increase revenue per supporter. The Data Architect will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and managing our data management infrastructure, ensuring it supports our strategic goals and operational needs, specifically in relation to our Google Cloud (GCP) based data platform. You’ll work closely with our Technology, Product and Engineering, editorial, reader revenues, advertising and analytics teams to develop and optimise our data platform with solutions that drive our business forward and help embed a “Data as a Product” mindset within GNM.

About The Role

• End-to-end data architecture design, evolving our existing GCP-based data platform architecture to meet strategic goals whilst enabling the platform to be scalable, robust and secure
• Support the data engineering team with implementing architectural, process or pattern changes, implementing monitoring, alerting, and logging strategies for the data platform to ensure high reliability and quick incident response
• Work with data governance, security and privacy teams to embed their requirements into solutions and repeatable data engineering patterns
• Oversee and provide guidance to the data teams in implementing ETL processes using Terraform, dbt and Airflow to streamline data flow
• Champion DataOps practices across the data team, focusing on automated testing, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), and monitoring for data pipelines and infrastructure
• Continuously assess and improve the data architecture to enhance performance, scalability, and security

• Demonstrable experience as a Data Architect with a track record of working with cloud-based data lake and data warehouse environments
• Previous experience in data platform engineering, including experience in GCP administration and management and knowledge of AWS
• Expert knowledge of modern data stack in particular Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Google BigQuery (GBQ), Airflow and DBT or similar technologies for designing data ingestion/reporting, transformations, optimisations and middleware interoperability
• Ability to articulate complex technical ideas in easy to understand business terms
• Demonstrated ability to assess needs of the relevant internal teams, creatively approach solutions, decide and influence appropriate courses of action
• Experience of working with information security and data privacy and realising their requirements (e.g. data access, data retention, vulnerability management etc)

We operate in a hybrid environment working 3 days a week from our offices in Kings Cross and 2 days a week remotely.

We value and respect all differences (seen and unseen) in all people. We aspire to have inclusive working experiences and an environment that reflects the audience we serve, where our people have equal access to career development opportunities, their voices are heard and can contribute to our future. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. Many of our staff work flexibly and we will consider all requests for flexible working arrangements.

To apply, please upload your latest CV and a cover letter which outlines why you’d love to take on this role, and why you’re a great match for what we’re looking for.

We appreciate the time taken to prepare each application we receive. We do not use AI-assisted technology to review applications; every application is reviewed by a member of our recruitment team.

The closing date for applications is Tuesday 7th October 2025.

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Benefits At The Guardian

• 30 days of annual leave per year (plus bank holidays) with the option to purchase an additional 5 days
• Pension scheme: employer contribution 8-12% (depending on age) when you contribute 5%
• 2 volunteering days annually and optional payroll giving
• Season ticket loans
• Private healthcare, life cover, income protection, and eye tests; optional dental insurance

We have enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave policies and support IVF, menopause, baby loss, and trans equality policy.

Culture and Wellbeing: We champion diversity of thought and provide forums for employee voices. We became the first major media organisation to achieve B Corp status. Health and wellbeing tools, free yoga and pilates classes, corporate gym membership and cycle to work scheme. Canteen with Regents Canal views.

Learning and Development: We support personal and professional growth with access to tools and solutions, plus support for professional qualifications through vocational courses and apprenticeships.

Seniority level: Mid-Senior level

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Engineering and Information Technology

Industries: Advertising Services

Location notes: Eastbury, London, UK (Kings Cross area) with hybrid work