About the role

This Data Architect position is a pivotal strategic role responsible for defining, governing and evolving the enterprise data architecture across International SOS's platforms and products. This role ensures that data assets are well-modelled, governed and positioned to deliver actionable insight - driving International SOS's mission through scalable, trusted and high-quality data. You will shape modern data platforms, models and standards that enable analytics, operational excellence and AI readiness across the organisation.

Key responsibilities

• Enforce data architectural guidelines and consistency across development teams and services
• Support established Data Governance and Data Quality frameworks, including tooling, policy enforcement and stewardship models
• Ensure robust metadata management, lineage tracking and data cataloguing using business glossaries and modern catalog tools
• Review and approve data architecture for major features, platforms and technical initiatives
• Collaborate with technical leads and DevOps on system scalability, performance and reliability
• Develop and maintain enterprise‑wide data architecture roadmap translating strategic data ambitions into actionable deliverables
• Drive the adoption of data architecture principles and standards across engineering and product teams through review boards and governance forums
• Conduct architecture assessments and identify opportunities to rationalise, consolidate, or modernise the data estate
• Coach and mentor engineers and data practitioners on data design, modelling best practices and architectural trade-offs
• Produce and maintain high-quality architecture documentation including data architecture decisions records (ADRs), data flow diagrams and domain maps
• Collaborate with data science and analytics teams to enable effective model deployment, feature engineering, and ML data readiness
• Promote a culture of data literacy and data-driven decision-making across the organisation

About you

• Solid experience in data architecture, data engineering or a closely related role
• Proven technical expertise in data modelling methodologies (Kimball/Lnmon), Data Vault 2.0
• Experience of designing enterprise-grade cloud platforms (AWS preferred) (Redshift, S3, Glue, Lake Formation, Athena) Databricks and snowflake are an advantage
• Expertise in data warehousing and lakehouse technologies (e.g., Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg)
• Strong understanding of ETL/ELT, CDC, event streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka/Kinesis) and API‑based integrations.
• Experience operating enterprise data governance programmes, including data stewardship, policy frameworks and data quality management
• Knowledge of MDM principles and familiarity with GDPR / CCPA
• Familiarity with analytics platforms such as Power BI or Amazon QuickSight and exposure to Gen AI Platforms
• Experience or enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF
• Able to communicate complex architectural concepts clearly and influence diverse technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

Benefits

-Competitive Starting Salary
-Opportunities for development and career progression
-A day’s leave for your birthday with the option to purchase additional annual leave
-Private health care, dental cover, pension scheme, life insurance, paid volunteering day
-Subsidised staff cafeteria and free tea, coffee and fruit
-Discount schemes (Cycle2work, season ticket loans, gym discounts)
-Access to Employee Assistance & Employee Support Programme
-Access to Chiswick Business Park Enjoy Work events