Team Overview
At Sky Data, we drive tangible business value by leveraging platform capabilities to meet real-world needs. As an Enterprise Data Architect, you will align with our Data Strategy to meet Sky’s business objectives and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to design and implement agile, scalable, and integrated architectural frameworks.
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
- Proven enterprise leadership and strategic direction: a proactive ability to identify opportunities and risks ahead of demand, setting architectural direction, navigating ambiguity, and structuring undefined problems through to resolution.
- Stakeholder influence and leadership without authority: a strong track record of influencing and constructively challenging senior stakeholders 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 and pragmatic delivery: the 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 and 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 and technical breadth: the 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
- Free Sky TV or NOW package, including Sky Sports and Sky Cinema
- Pension package with up to 9% employer contribution
- Private healthcare with mental health support
- Aviva Digital GP and dental insurance
- Discounts on Sky products, including Sky Mobile, Sky Broadband, Sky Glass and Sky Protect
- Sharesave and tech schemes
- Range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences
How You’ll Work
We have adopted a hybrid working approach. For this role, we expect 2 days in the office per week.
Office Spaces
Osterley Campus: 10‑minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Free shuttle buses run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There are bike shelters and showers. On campus, subsidised restaurants, cafes, a Waitrose, a gym, a cinema, a car wash and a beauty salon are available.
Livingston Watermark House: Free shuttle bus to Livingston North train station and town centre. Onsite parking for cars, motorbikes and bicycles.
Equal Opportunity
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We are a Disability Confident Accredited Employer and welcome applications from all candidates. We will make reasonable adjustments to support applicants where appropriate. Please flag any adjustments needed as early as possible.
Additional Information
Applicants may need to complete a criminal record check. Depending on the nature of any convictions, we may withdraw the offer. To be eligible for this role you must have the appropriate right to work in the UK. Sky does not offer sponsorship for this position.
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