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About the Role

Design and govern scalable, secure, AI- and data-driven solutions across a complex European technology landscape. Partner with product, engineering, and business teams to translate business needs into end-to-end data architectures aligned to enterprise strategy and standards, enabling analytics, reporting, and customer-facing AI use cases while shaping the future evolution of the data platform.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end data solution architecture for major initiatives, from concept through delivery
• Design and document high-level and detailed data architectures covering sourcing, integration, storage, processing, and consumption
• Act as the design authority for data architecture decisions, aligned to enterprise strategy, standards, and governance
• Partner with product, engineering, and business teams to meet functional and non-functional requirements
• Guide delivery teams on data architecture patterns, best practices, and modern data platform choices
• Ensure compliance with data privacy, protection, and assurance policies
• Support platform modernisation, data migrations, AI-enabled solutions, and continuous improvement of the architecture practice

Requirements

• Proven experience designing end-to-end data solutions and large-scale data migrations in complex enterprise environments
• Strong data architecture and modelling expertise across relational and non-relational platforms
• Experience designing scalable, real-time data architectures using modern integration patterns (pipelines, APIs, event/streaming)
• Hands-on experience with cloud-based data platforms and modern analytics ecosystems
• Experience designing or enabling AI-driven data solutions (e.g. RAG, embeddings, vector search)
• Strong stakeholder management skills, able to communicate complex concepts clearly and challenge constructively
• Experience with MDM and CDP platforms (e.g. Stibo, Amperity, Riversand)
• Exposure to data warehouses, data lakes, and lakehouse architectures (e.g. Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery)
• Familiarity with modern data modelling approaches (Kimball, Data Vault, Medallion)
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and event-driven/streaming technologies (Kafka, Flink, CDC)
• Knowledge of SAP and D365 data extraction approaches, BI tools (e.g. Power BI), and data governance, privacy, and security
• Experience working in large-scale, multi-brand or multi-country organisations

Skills

• Data Architecture
• Data Modelling
• Relational Platforms
• Non-relational Platforms
• Scalable Data Architectures
• Real-time Data Architectures
• Modern Integration Patterns
• Pipelines
• APIs
• Event/Streaming
• Cloud-based Data Platforms
• Modern Analytics Ecosystems
• AI-driven Data Solutions
• RAG
• Embeddings
• Vector Search
• Stakeholder Management
• MDM
• CDP
• Data Warehouses
• Data Lakes
• Lakehouse Architectures
• Databricks
• Snowflake
• BigQuery
• Kimball
• Data Vault
• Medallion
• AWS
• Azure
• GCP
• Kafka
• Flink
• CDC
• SAP
• D365
• Power BI
• Data Governance
• Data Privacy
• Data Security

Location

• Southampton
• Paddington

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Office-based (1-2 days per week)

Experience Level

• Proven experience
• Strong expertise
• Hands-on experience
• Experience
• Exposure
• Familiarity
• Knowledge

Benefits

• Competitive benefits package
• Opportunities to stretch and grow your career

About the Company

• Kingfisher is a team made up of over 74,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot, Castorama and Koctas to life.
• Guided by our purpose Better Homes. Better Lives. For Everyone.
• We believe a better world starts with better homes, and we work every day to make that a reality.
• Join us and help shape the future of home improvement.

Equal Opportunity

• Our customers come from all walks of life - and so do we. We’re committed to ensuring all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants are treated equally, regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, ethnicity, culture, religion, belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation.