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With over 30 years of experience, we empower our clients with innovative technology that enhances governance, operations, and investment on a global scale. At Quantios, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where creativity, learning, and collaboration drive success.\nAs a Data Architect at Quantios, you will own the architecture of Quantios Insights, our multi-tenant analytics platform. Built on Azure Databricks and Unity Catalog, Insights unifies data from all Quantios products and powers analytics, regulatory insights, MCP-based data access, and AI-driven capabilities for regulated financial services customers.\nYou will define the architectural standards, models, integration patterns, and governance frameworks that keep the platform reliable, scalable, secure, and demonstrably isolated between customers. This is a hands-on role: you will set the standard through working code and documented patterns, using SQL, Python, and dbt in your daily work.\nThis role also plays a central part in the internal AI Enablement Centre of Excellence, ensuring high-quality datasets flow into RAG pipelines, LLM evaluation frameworks, and strategic AI initiatives across the business. You will collaborate closely with Data Engineers, LLMOps Engineers, Product Owners, Portfolio Architects, and engineering teams to shape Quantios’ data and AI ecosystem.\nJob Responsibilities:\nEnterprise Data Architecture & StrategyDefine the architectural vision, principles, and standards for Quantios’ enterprise data platform aligned to the business and product strategy.\nOwn and evolve the data architecture for Quantios Insights, including data ingestion patterns, lakehouse design, semantic modelling, and analytical layers.\nDefine architectural guardrails and reference patterns for Databricks to support customer deployment flexibility.\nContribute to the long-term roadmap for data and AI capabilities across Quantios products and internal teams.\n\n Hands-On Delivery & Technical LeadershipUse SQL, Python, and dbt hands-on: build reference implementations, review and write pull requests, and unblock Data Engineers directly.\nSet the standard through working code and documented patterns (architecture decision records, runbooks, reference models), not only diagrams.\nReview and challenge work from engineering teams and external delivery partners, confirming that what is documented matches what is built and running.\nWork closely with Portfolio Architects to align product architecture, data architecture, and platform strategy.\nCollaborate with Product Owners to translate analytical and AI requirements into data architectural designs.\nProvide architectural oversight to Data Engineers, guiding implementation consistency and quality, and participate in technical reviews and architectural governance forums.\n\n Data Modelling & Lakehouse DesignLead the design of domain-driven canonical data models for all Quantios products and cross-product datasets.\nArchitect medallion/lakehouse models (bronze, silver, gold) using Databricks.\nEnsure semantic models, KPIs, and analytical structures are consistent, scalable, and aligned with business requirements, and serve whichever BI and application layers consume them.\nGuide Data Engineers in applying architectural patterns and modelling best practices.\n\nIntegration Architecture & Ingestion PatternsDesign data ingestion frameworks for distributed Quantios products using batch, streaming, event-driven, or API-based patterns.\nDefine common integration templates for customer and partner ecosystems.\nSupport ingestion of structured, semi-structured, unstructured, and log/event telemetry.\nEnsure data flows are resilient, observable, and architected for reliability and cost efficiency.\n\nGovernance, Security & ComplianceDefine data governance frameworks covering metadata, lineage, data catalogue, access management, and quality standards, implemented through Unity Catalog.\nEnsure that data architecture adheres to Quantios’ security, privacy, and regulatory requirements.\nDefine patterns for sensitive data handling, encryption, and secure data access.\n\nAI & Advanced Analytics EnablementArchitect dataset structures to support AI, including RAG pipelines, vector search, LLM training/evaluation sets, and semantic enrichment layers.\nCollaborate with LLMOps Engineers to ensure high-quality, well-structured data flows into embeddings pipelines and retrieval systems.\nSupport MCP-based data access patterns by designing structured data interfaces and schemas tailored for agent use.\nDefine patterns for unstructured data processing and preparation for AI workloads.\n\nCustomer & Partner EnablementDefine customer deployment reference architectures for Databricks.\nSupport customer discussions as a subject matter expert on analytics, AI architectures, and integration of Quantios data into client environments.\n\nContinuous Improvement & InnovationStay current with emerging trends in data engineering, AI data management, lakehouse technologies, governance, and observability.\nEvaluate new tools, patterns, and technologies that enhance the data and AI platform capabilities.\nPromote a culture of continuous improvement within the data engineering and broader architecture teams.\n\nJob Requirements:\nBachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related field; or equivalent experience.\n7+ years in data engineering, data architecture, or platform architecture, with at least 3 years hands-on on Azure Databricks in production.\nDemonstrable production experience with Unity Catalog, including catalogs and schemas as isolation boundaries, grants, row filters, column masks, service principals, lineage, and system tables. 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