Lead Data Architect

As Lead Data & Cloud Architect at EY, you will shape modern cloud-based data architectures for enterprise-scale environments. You’ll drive data warehousing, modelling and scalable platform designs, enabling AI-ready data ecosystems across AWS or GCP (Azure a plus). You’ll lead governance and technical decisions, mentor engineers, and partner with senior stakeholders to translate business needs into robust, future-proof solutions. This role blends hands-on delivery with strategic architectural oversight in a cross-functional, globally connected setting.

• competitive salary
• pension plan
• annual bonus
• hybrid working
• vacation days with buy options
• wellbeing support (OpenUp)

• Design cloud-based data architectures across AWS or GCP (Azure optional)
• Develop data warehousing, data modelling and scalable platform designs
• Define AI-ready data platform components including ingestion, orchestration, storage and compute
• Provide architectural leadership, oversight and governance across delivery teams
• Translate business requirements into scalable architectural solutions
• Engage senior stakeholders and influence strategic technical decisions
• Drive architectural patterns, standards and best practices across teams
• Coach engineers and junior architects to raise technical capabilities

• 8+ years of experience in data architecture, cloud engineering or analytics platform design
• Expertise in AWS or GCP (Azure is a plus)
• Strong background in enterprise-scale data warehousing and data modelling
• Experience with lakehouse, streaming, and ELT/ETL architectures
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders (technical and non-technical)
• Comfortable working in ambiguity and solving problems without predefined paths
• Hands-on mindset with strategic architectural oversight
• Proactive, resilient and energized by complex enterprise challenges

• Stakeholder influence
• Ambiguity handling and problem solving
• Coaching and mentorship
• AWS
• GCP
• Azure (plus)