About The Business
Quilter plc is a leading wealth management business, helping to enable brighter financial futures for every generation. Quilter oversees £141.2 billion in customer investments (as at end December 2025). It offers financial advice, investment platforms, multi‑asset investment solutions, and discretionary fund management across its Affluent and High Net Worth segments. Quilter aims to stay ahead by continually modernising and becoming more customer‑centric, inviting colleagues to bring new ideas and challenge the status quo.
About The Role
Level: 5
Department: CDO
Location: Southampton or London
Contract type: Permanent
The Data Platform Architect reports to the Head of Data Platforms within the Chief Data Office, owning the data platform reference architecture and partnering with stakeholders to deliver a reliable, high‑quality data capability that supports business objectives.
Key Accountabilities
Technical Oversight & Delivery
- Define and own a multi‑year data platform architecture roadmap supporting data, reporting, advanced analytics, and AI
- Ensure architectural coherence across Fabric, Azure, Databricks, and AI environments
- Establish and maintain the enterprise data platform architecture covering ingestion, storage, compute, orchestration, governance, quality, and consumption
- Translate architecture principles into pragmatic, implementable guidance for engineering and delivery teams
- Assess and recommend emerging data and analytics technologies and platform features for the roadmap
- Conduct design assurance and solution reviews across platform and product squads
Cross‑Functional Collaboration
- Collaborate with enterprise architects, cloud platform, security and data governance teams to design holistic services for the business and customers
- Work closely with platform tenant teams to understand challenges and enable new features and capabilities
- Translate business needs and data strategy into architectural blueprints and solution patterns
- Communicate clearly across technical and non‑technical teams to align on priorities and progress
Operational Excellence
- Work across the data function with Data Engineering, Platform Engineering, Modelling and Business requirement teams to curate design patterns for repeatable solution delivery
- Define architectural principles that optimise reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency
- Define guardrails for resilience, compliance, and security‑by‑design
- Drive continuous improvement in design and solution engineering
Qualifications
- Degree in a technical discipline (e.g., computer science, engineering, maths, physics) or equivalent practical experience
- Proven experience providing architectural leadership and influencing cross‑functional technical teams
- Strong technical hands‑on experience designing, building and maintaining a data platform in an Azure, Databricks and Fabric ecosystem
- Experience designing data platforms using Medallion or Lakehouse architecture
- Strong understanding of data governance: lineage, cataloguing, metadata, RBAC, data privacy
- Experience with Lambda and multimodal data systems
- History of delivering strategic architecture outcomes through diverse project deliveries
- Solid grasp of data engineering, business intelligence, artificial intelligence and modern development/deployment techniques
Skills
- Strategic thinker with a curious mindset and strong problem‑solving skills
- Ability to communicate complex concepts clearly and concisely
- Ability to balance innovation with enterprise constraints
- Experience in cost‑optimised architecture design for cloud environments
- Experience in platform architecture across Azure, Databricks, AI Foundry and Microsoft Fabric platforms
- TOGAF experience is desirable
Inclusion & Diversity
We value diversity and promote inclusivity, ensuring equal opportunities for all and creating a respectful, nurturing environment where every colleague can thrive.
Values
- Do the right thing: Act with integrity and go above and beyond in service of clients and communities.
- Always curious: Continuously seek new ideas and knowledge to stay ahead of client needs.
- Embrace challenge: Aim high to transform potential into meaningful outcomes.
- Stronger together: Combine diverse talents, listen actively, support each other, and embrace new ideas.
Core Benefits
- Holiday: 182 hours (26 days)
- Quilter Incentive Scheme: All employees can participate, incentivising business performance and contribution.
- Pension Scheme: Non‑contributory company pension scheme, boostable through personal contributions.
- Private Medical Insurance: Single cover as standard with options to increase to include partner or children.
- Life Assurance: 4 times salary
- Income Protection: 75% of salary (excluding state benefits), payable after 26 weeks of absence.
- Healthcare Cash Plan: Available to Jersey employees.
In addition to our core benefits, we offer a range of flexible benefits to UK employees that you can choose from and pay for conveniently via a salary deduction.
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