Aws Architect, Flexible Working in London

Job ID: 12c0be696d19b30Company: NTT DATA UKLocation: London, United KingdomCategory: Technical EngineeringIndustry: We are looking for a Databricks Champion Architect to define, govern, and evangelise modern lakehouse architectures on Databricks. This role blends solution architecture, hands-on technical leadership, and platform enablement—setting standards and accelerating delivery teams through patterns, reference implementations, and best practices. Own the end-to-end Databricks solution architecture across ingestion, transformation, governance, serving, and operations. Define and enforce Medallion Architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold) standards and reference designs (including data quality, SCD/CDC patterns, performance, and retention). Namespace strategy, access models, lineage, data sharing, and secure-by-design patterns. Data quality strategy, validation rules, quarantine patterns, and observability standards. CI/CD approach, environment strategy (dev/test/prod), monitoring, runbooks, and operational readiness. Work with security, enterprise architecture, data governance, platform teams, and delivery squads. Provide playbooks, templates, architecture decision records (ADRs), design reviews, and technical coaching. High-level designs, estimation, risk/dependency management, and technical proposals. Demonstrable architecture ownership (solution design, governance models, or platform standards), even if overall industry experience is greater than 2 years. Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate/Professional Databricks Certified Machine Learning Associate/Professional Medallion Architecture design ownership: Proven ability to design Bronze/Silver/Gold layers, data contracts, data lifecycle, and serving patterns (BI, APIs, ML features). Unity Catalog architecture experience: Architectural understanding plus practical experience implementing expectations, failure handling, and quality reporting. Ingestion architecture & delivery: Strong command of Delta Lake and performance patterns: Production architecture practices: Environment separation, secrets management, job orchestration standards (Databricks Workflows), testing strategy, and observability. Cloud platform integration understanding (one or more of Azure/AWS/GCP): Identity, networking, storage, and security integration considerations. Lakeflow ingestion connectors experience (specific connector implementations). Row-level security, column masking, sensitive data classification patterns in Unity Catalog. Mosaic AI, Vector Search, model serving, RAG architectures, AI Functions. Photon adoption patterns, cluster policy design, skew/shuffle tuning, streaming tuning, concurrency strategies. Understanding cost drivers (DBUs/compute types), chargeback/showback approaches, cluster policies, and cost controls. We're a business with a global reach that empowers local teams, and we undertake hugely exciting work that is genuinely changing the world. Our advanced portfolio of consulting, applications, business process, cloud, and infrastructure services will allow you to achieve great things by working with brilliant colleagues, and clients, on exciting projects. We are also proud to share that we have a range of Inclusion Networks such as: the Women's Business Network, Cultural and Ethnicity Network, LGBTQ+ & Allies Network, Neurodiversity Network and the Parent Network. For more information on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion please click here: Creating Inclusion Together at NTT DATA UK | NTT DATA We offer a range of tailored benefits that support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. Our Learning and Development team ensure that there are continuous growth and development opportunities for our people. We also offer the opportunity to have flexible work options. You can find more information about NTT DATA UK & Ireland here: We believe in the fair treatment of all our employees and commit to promoting equity and diversity in our employment practices. We are also a proud Disability Confident Committed Employer - we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce. We actively collaborate with individuals who have disabilities and long-term health conditions which have an effect on their ability to do normal daily activities, ensuring that barriers are eliminated when it comes to employment opportunities. In line with our commitment, we guarantee an interview to applicants who declare to us, during the application process, that they have a disability and meet the minimum requirements for the role. Join us in building a truly diverse and empowered team.