Principal Enterprise Data Architect

What you’ll do

• Own enterprise-level architectural direction within defined domains, ensuring alignment to Sky Data strategy and measurable business outcomes.
• Shape business demand early, influencing problem definition and guiding initiatives toward optimal architectural outcomes.
• Connect the dots across portfolios, proactively identifying dependencies, risks, duplication, and opportunities to simplify or accelerate delivery across the Sky Data estate.
• Define, evolve, and communicate the enterprise data architecture (“North Star”), ensuring all initiatives incrementally progress toward the target state.
• Drive architectural governance and decision-making, providing clear recommendations, trade-offs, and direction at senior stakeholder level.
• Translate strategic priorities into actionable capability roadmaps, linking business goals to platform and data capability evolution.
• Develop and maintain enterprise architecture artefacts (e.g. capability models, target views, roadmaps) to guide investment and track maturity.
• Influence senior stakeholders, articulating architecture decisions in terms of business value, risk, and long-term impact.
• Act as an escalation point for complex architectural challenges, resolving ambiguity and enabling progress across initiatives.
• Ensure coherent, scalable, and reusable solutions across initiatives, reducing fragmentation and maximising platform value.

What you’ll bring

• Enterprise leadership & strategic direction: Proven ability to act as a proactive enterprise leader, identifying opportunities and risks ahead of demand, setting architectural direction, navigating ambiguity, and structuring undefined problems through to resolution.
• Stakeholder influence & leadership without authority: Strong track record of influencing and constructively challenging senior stakeholders, leading without authority across multiple teams and functions to drive improved business and technology outcomes.
• Enterprise architecture across complexity: Demonstrable experience leading architecture across complex, multi‑initiative environments, connecting the dots across domains and initiatives to deliver clarity, alignment, and consistency.
• Decision‑making & pragmatic delivery: Clear capability to make, articulate, and own architectural decisions, balancing strategic intent with pragmatic delivery and managing trade‑offs across cost, speed, scalability, and risk.
• Communication & narrative storytelling: Strong communication and storytelling skills, translating complex architectural concepts into clear, outcome‑focused narratives for both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Portfolio management & technical breadth: Ability to proactively manage and prioritise workloads across initiatives and portfolios, maintaining visibility of priorities, risks, and dependencies, supported by a broad data and technology background and experience designing secure, scalable, robust architectures (Google Cloud Platform experience beneficial; other cloud platforms also welcome).

Benefits

• Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
• The magic of Sky Glass at an exclusive rate
• A generous pension package
• Private healthcare
• Discounted mobile and broadband
• A wide range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences

#J-18808-Ljbffr…