Data Architect

Enterprise Data Architect | UK Refinery Operations | 15+ Years Experience

We're looking for a very senior Data Architect to lead the enterprise data architecture for a UK refinery — defining the standards, governance and blueprint that let a growing Microsoft Fabric platform scale with confidence.

You'll turn business ambition for better insight into well-governed, trusted data products, lead a small architecture team, and bring together operational (OT) and enterprise (IT) data across a safety-critical industrial environment.

What you'll own:

• Enterprise data architecture vision, strategy and roadmap on Microsoft Fabric (& Databricks)
• Translating ambiguous business asks into concrete, well-modelled data use cases
• Enterprise & functional data models, data profiling and source system analysis
• Data governance, standards, cataloguing and metadata — built from the ground up
• OT/IT integration across PI, SCADA, DCS, LIMS and SAP
• A small team of engineers, with a mandate to build their data modelling capability too

What you bring:

• 15+ years in enterprise data architecture, ideally having built a data function from scratch before
• Strong data modelling, profiling and governance fundamentals
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Fabric (and Databricks preferred)
• Experience with OT/IT integration — oil & gas, energy or manufacturing background strongly preferred
• Proven ability to influence senior/CXO stakeholders and lead a technical team

This is a rare chance to shape how a business uses data from the ground up — with real platform investment, real business appetite, and a mandate to do it right from day one.