Data Architect

Unity Advisory
London
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningSkills: ["Stakeholder management","Architectural judgement","Mentoring","Communication","Leadership"]

Own end-to-end data architecture across advisory engagements, defining how client data is structured, governed, and served for reliable analytics, AI, and management reporting. Lead target-state designs covering modeling standards, lineage, governed access, and finance system integration (ERP/EPM and consolidation). Build finance data foundations for RAG, feature stores, and responsible production AI, while directing cloud data platforms, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and observability. Mentor engineers and guide delivery decisions.

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Unity Advisory
Unity Advisory
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Data Architect

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end data architecture across advisory engagements, defining how client data is structured, governed, and served for reliable analytics, AI, and management reporting. Lead target-state designs covering modeling standards, lineage, governed access, and finance system integration (ERP/EPM and consolidation). Build finance data foundations for RAG, feature stores, and responsible production AI, while directing cloud data platforms, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and observability. Mentor engineers and guide delivery decisions.
Location: London
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define target-state data architectures for clients, including models, storage, pipelines, and access patterns that balance rigour with delivery.
  • •Establish data modelling standards and curated domain layers with end-to-end lineage and provenance for audit and controls.
  • •Integrate finance source systems into governed, analytics-ready models and design finance data foundations for AI/ML (including RAG and feature stores).
  • •Set patterns for secure, compliant finance data platforms, aligning to standards such as ISO 27001 and ensuring segregation of duties.
  • •Provide architectural direction for cloud data platforms and engineering practices (infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability) and mentor engineers while translating business needs into scoped roadmaps.

Key Requirements

  • •Significant experience designing and delivering data architectures for production systems, with evidence that your designs have shipped and run.
  • •Deep expertise in data modelling, warehouse/lakehouse design, and data governance.
  • •Hands-on SQL and Python background, plus fluency with at least one major cloud provider (AWS or Azure) and modern data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks).
  • •System-level judgement on how data architecture shapes AI outcomes, including governed sources for RAG and structuring retrieval/orchestration.
  • •Ability to set standards and lead engineers while staying close to implementation and communicating trade-offs to senior stakeholders.
Experience:AIAnalyticsAdvisoryFinance
Skills:Stakeholder managementArchitectural judgementMentoringCommunicationLeadership
Tech Stack:SQLPythonAWSAzureSnowflakeDatabricksRAGFeature storesERPEPMData governanceLineageProvenanceISO 27001Infrastructure as codeCI/CDObservabilityAccess controlClaude CodeCursor

Company Brief

Unity Advisory
Provides strategic advisory services including corporate finance, M&A advisory, restructuring, and growth strategy to mid-market companies and private equity clients, delivering transaction support, due diligence, and strategic planning.
Industry: Management Consulting
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