Enterprise Data Architect

Description

We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Data Architect to define and lead the organisation's target-state data architecture, ensuring our data landscape supports business growth, operational excellence, regulatory compliance, and future AI-driven innovation.

This is a strategic role at the heart of our data transformation journey. You will be responsible for designing the frameworks, standards, and technology architecture that connect core business systems across case management, finance, CRM, analytics, and AI platforms. Working closely with senior technology and business leaders, you will help shape a scalable and sustainable data ecosystem that reduces integration complexity, improves data accessibility, and enables advanced analytics and predictive capabilities.

What you will do?

As our Enterprise Data Architect, you will:

• Define and maintain the enterprise data architecture, including conceptual, logical, and physical data models.
• Design integration strategies and architecture patterns that connect case management, finance, CRM, document management, and analytics systems.
• Drive adoption of modern integration approaches, favouring API-led and event-driven architectures over point-to-point solutions.
• Evaluate and recommend technologies for the organisation's data platform, including data warehouses, lakehouses, master data management solutions, and API frameworks
• Design the data foundations required to support AI and machine learning initiatives, ensuring high-quality, trusted, and accessible data.
• Partner with Data Engineering, Data Governance, and Analytics teams to ensure architecture standards are consistently applied.
• Define enterprise data security and access architecture in collaboration with data governance and information security teams.
• Produce and maintain architecture roadmaps, standards, and documentation.
• Support the CTO, Enterprise Architecture function, and Head of Data & Analytics on major transformation programmes, platform migrations, and strategic technology decisions, including vendor selection.

Who you are

Essential Skills & Experience

• Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise data architectures in complex or regulated environments.
• Strong understanding of modern data platform patterns, including:
  • Data Warehouses, Data Lakes, Data Lakehouses
  • Data Mesh concepts
  • API-led architectures
  • Event-driven integration patterns
• Experience architecting solutions that support both operational reporting and advanced analytics, including AI and machine learning workloads.
• Strong knowledge of Azure-based data platforms and cloud architecture principles.
• Familiarity with Master Data Management (MDM) frameworks and technologies.
• Experience integrating multiple business-critical systems within a hybrid technology environment.
• Ability to balance immediate business needs with long-term architectural strategy and technical sustainability.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Experience producing architecture standards, roadmaps and governance documentation.

Desirable Skills & Experience

• Knowledge of case management systems, CRM platforms such as Dynamics 365, and finance or billing solutions.
• Experience supporting large-scale cloud transformation programmes.
• Understanding of data governance, privacy, and regulatory compliance requirements.
• Relevant architecture certifications such as TOGAF, Azure Solutions Architect, or equivalent.
• Experience within insurance, legal services, claims management or financial services is desirable but not mandatory.

Why Join Us?

This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future direction of data and technology within a growing, data-driven organisation.

You'll have the opportunity to:

• Be part of an exciting journey reshaping how data and AI are used in claims management.
• Play a key role in our major transformation initiatives and the creation of our modern cloud data platform.
• Work with cutting-edge Azure and AI technologies
• Define a strategic enterprise data architecture that delivers long-term business value.
• Influence strategic data decisions across the business.
• Support the adoption of advanced analytics, AI, and machine learning capabilities.
• Join a collaborative and forward-thinking Data & Analytics function.

Success Measures

Success in this role will be measured by:

• Delivery and adoption of the target-state enterprise data architecture.
• Reduction in integration complexity and technical debt.
• Improved accessibility, consistency, and quality of enterprise data.
• Successful implementation of scalable and secure data platform standards.
• Alignment of technology investments with architectural principles and business objectives.
• Enablement of advanced analytics and AI initiatives through robust data foundations.
• Positive stakeholder engagement and effective governance of architectural decisions.

Ready to Apply?

If you are passionate about designing modern data architectures that enable innovation, drive business value, and create the foundations for AI-enabled growth, we'd love to hear from you. Join us and play a key role in shaping the future of data across the organisation.

What's in it for you?

• High levels of flexibility and a great work life balance - https://www.dacbeachcroft.com/en/Work-with-us/Whats-in-it-for-you
• A well-rounded remuneration package (which includes private medical insurance, income protection insurance and discounted gym membership, amongst many other benefits)
• Opportunities for growth and progression including professional funding
• In person and remote social events
• Opportunity to get involved in a range of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) activities

We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, which aligns closely to our cultural principles (Determined, Clear, Creative and Supportive). If you are excited about this role and being part of our culture, but your past experience does not align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles!

About DAC Beachcroft

We are a leading international legal business with over 3,000 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We are market leaders in insurance, health and real estate but with a full-service offering, including growing Financial Services and Tech capabilities. We represent a wide range of clients – from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for nearly all of the top-20 UK and global insurers, we're market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK’s top-five housebuilders.

We are a fast-growing international business with offices around the globe. In addition to our 11 UK offices, we also have offices in Bogota, Buenos Aires, Dublin, Lima, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Madrid, Mexico City, Milan, New York, Paris, Rome, Santiago de Chile, and Singapore plus a representative office in Miami and broad network of affiliations across the globe.

At DAC Beachcroft we are committed to and recognise the importance of equity, diversity and inclusion across the board, including and beyond the protected characteristics. We take decisions based solely on merit. We value, welcome and seek out people with different backgrounds and life experiences, perspectives, beliefs, ways of thinking and identities.

We are happy to talk flexible working with our Flex Forward scheme. We would encourage you to talk to us about our approach to flexible working during the hiring process if you would like to explore this further.

Note for Recruitment Agencies
DAC Beachcroft manages all vacancies via our in-house recruitment teams, prioritising direct sourcing and referrals. When external support is required, roles are released to selected agencies on our Preferred Supplier List (PSL).

Speculative CVs sent to any DAC Beachcroft employee without prior instruction from our recruitment teams (LLP and CSG) will not be accepted, and no fees will be payable.

For PSL queries, please contact: [email protected] or [email protected]