Data Architect - FTC (Cape Town)

You will own and evolve enterprise data architecture to drive innovation and efficiency. This role focuses on end-to-end responsibility for the data landscape, closing gaps, modernizing architecture, and ensuring scalable, governed solutions for current and future products.

Where You’ll Add Value

• Lead the end-to-end data architecture for the enterprise, providing a solid foundation for AI, analytics, and new product use cases.

• Analyze current data assets, pipelines, and architecture to identify improvement opportunities in speed, quality, and scalability.

• Direct the validation and evolution of medallion architecture, ensuring seamless data flow from ingestion through analytics.

• Oversee and optimize data pipelines, data quality, and classification standards.

• Design and drive the integration of data platforms with enterprise systems using Microsoft stack (.NET, SQL Server, Power BI); familiarity with Databricks or Snowflake is advantageous.

• Shape and govern future integrations and architecture landscape, ensuring design aligns to organizational standards and governance.

• Translate business strategy and requirements into robust, scalable technical solutions.

• Produce architecture diagrams, technical documentation, and required artifacts to guide engineering teams.

• Represent data architecture in governance forums and steering committees, challenging and improving existing approaches.

• Collaborate with data engineers and cross-functional teams to ensure architectural designs are implemented effectively.