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We turn intent into action and complexity into clarity.\nOur Mission is clear, to help smarter, faster buying decisions. Our vision, to be the world’s most used digital comparison service, delivering value and simplicity to millions.\nWe drive growth through data-driven affiliate marketing built for performance from day one. Every campaign is measurable, optimised in real time, and designed to scale.\nWith in-house tech, full-stack analytics, and a compliance-first mindset, we give our partners an edge. We drive confident decisions and growth in regulated and high-growth sectors. We’ve helped ambitious brands grow faster, smarter, and globally.\nThe Role\nOur Data Engineering & AI team is growing! We’re looking for a Data Architect to join our team in London.\nIn this role you will set the design principles for our data platform and make sure everything we build lives up to them. You’ll own the architecture of QiCore, our new data warehouse, bring acquired businesses into it cleanly and lay the foundations our AI plans depend on.\nKey Responsibilities\nOwn the target architecture for QiCore and act as design authority for every build that lands in it\n\nEstablish clear approaches to customer identity, PII, consent, data classification, retention and access controls, working with relevant security, privacy and governance stakeholders.\n\nLead the migration of Rewards into our warehouse and single customer view, then turn it into a repeatable pattern for future acquisitions\n\nDefine the modelling, governance and data quality standards our engineers build to, and review work against them before it ships\n\nStay hands-on: prototype pipelines, unblock engineers on daily design questions and lead a small team of data engineers\n\nTranslate business needs into data design with Tech, Analytics and commercial teams, so the platform is ready for our AI ambitions\n\nAbout You\nProven enterprise or data architecture experience, with a warehouse or lakehouse you designed running in production\n\nHands-on data engineering: you still write SQL and Python, and can build and debug pipelines yourself\n\nStrong understanding of PII, data privacy, access control and governance, with experience designing solutions for both identifiable and anonymous/pseudonymous customer data\n\nDeep knowledge of big data platforms, ETL and ELT patterns, and data governance frameworks\n\nExperience consolidating acquired businesses or legacy platforms into a single data model\n\nHigh standards for quality, and the clarity to explain design trade-offs to engineers and non-technical stakeholders\n\nYou thrive when working as part of a team\n\nComfortable in a fast-paced environment\n\nHave excellent written and verbal English skills\n\nLast but not least, you’ll have no ego!\n\nWhat You’ll Get\nPrivate Health Care (Bupa)\n\nHybrid Working (3 days in office)\n\nTravel Insurance\n\nCompetitive Base Salary\n\nCompany Bonus Scheme\n\nPaid for AI Subscription (Claude / ChatGPT / Gemini)\n\nMarket-Leading Training Programme\n\nRecognition & Reward Scheme\n\nAnnual Company Conference\n\nRegular Happy Hours & Team Lunches\n\nFree Coffee, Drinks & Snacks\n\nWhat’s the next step?\n Our hiring process ensures we're recruiting the right people for the role. 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