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This role typically requires 2 days per week onsite.\nClosing Date - Applications close on 22nd October at 5pm\nWhy this role?\nWe’re looking for a Data Solutions Architect to play a key role in shaping and delivering data services utilising our new Microsoft Fabric data platform within Tesco Insurance and Money Services.\nThis is a pivotal role at a critical point in our data journey. You’ll provide key technical and architectural skills across data modelling, analytics and platform design, ensuring our data foundations are robust, governed and built for long term use. You’ll work closely with engineers, analysts, product teams and senior stakeholders to translate business and regulatory needs into clear, scalable data architectures.\nThe role combines strategic design with a particular focus on high quality conceptual, logical and physical data models that underpin analytics, reporting, AI and operational use cases across the organisation.\n\nWhat you’ll be doing\nDefine and own data architecture patterns, standards and target state designs for our Microsoft Fabric platform, ensuring consistency across ingestion, storage, semantic modelling and consumption layers.\nDevelop next-generation platform capabilities, including real-time ingestion, AI-driven insights and API-led integration\nLead the design and governance of enterprise and domain data models, from conceptual and logical models through to physical implementations optimised for Fabric (Lakehouse, Warehouse and semantic models).\nPartner with data engineers, analytics engineers and platform teams to ensure data models are correctly implemented, performant and aligned to architectural intent.\nShape and assure the semantic layer (e.g. shared dimensions, facts and metrics), enabling trusted, reusable analytics and reducing duplication across teams.\nWork with Product, Business and Data Owners to translate business concepts, KPIs and regulatory requirements into clear, well governed data structures.\nEmbed data quality, lineage, metadata and lifecycle management into all designs, aligned to data governance, privacy and regulatory obligations.\nProvide architectural assurance across change initiatives, balancing speed of delivery with long term data integrity, resilience and operational sustainability.\nMentor and coach engineers and analysts on data modelling best practice, raising overall data architecture maturity across the organisation.\nWhat we’re looking for (minimum criteria)\nProven experience as a Data Architect working across modern analytics and data platforms.\nStrong, hands-on expertise in data modelling, including:\no Conceptual and logical enterprise data models\no Dimensional modelling (facts, dimensions, star/snowflake schemas)\no Experience designing semantic layers for self-service analytics\nExperience designing data architectures on cloud-based platforms, ideally Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse, or equivalent lakehouse style platforms.\nDeep understanding of how data models support analytics, reporting, AI/ML and operational use cases, not just storage.\nAbility to work effectively in Agile and product led environments, providing clear architectural direction without becoming a delivery bottleneck.\nStrong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to explain complex data concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.\nAnd if you have any of these, even better\nExperience defining data solutions for AI, machine learning or conversational/ NLQ analytics capabilities\nBackground supporting or enabling AI/ advanced analytics through well designed data foundations\nExperience working in regulated or customer critical environments (e.g. financial services, insurance), with an understanding of data risk, privacy and regulatory constraints.\nKnowledge of Microsoft Fabric components such as Lakehouse, Warehouse, Data Factory, OneLake and Power BI semantic models.\nExperience aligning data architecture with data governance, ownership models and operating frameworks.\nWe welcome applications from everyone. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement, we’d still love to hear from you.\nWhat’s in it for you\nA generous pension, with up to 7.5% employer contribution, depending on what you put in.\nPrivate Medical Insurance (WL2+) and virtual GP Service for you and your family\nPerformance related annual bonus.\n7.2 weeks holiday, with the opportunity to buy more.\nColleague Clubcard discount (10-15% + second card to share with someone else).\nEnhanced parental leave.\nOpportunities to Save and Buy as you earn.\nA place to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities to help you achieve the job and career you want.\nInterviews\nAs a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2), we’re committed to creating an accessible and supportive environment for all. We offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, including interviews, to ensure every candidate has a fair opportunity to succeed.\nWe also know the importance of balancing work with life’s other commitments. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need, as we’re committed to exploring part time and flexible working opportunities, at every level of the organisation.\nInterviews are expected to be held shortly after closing date.\nDon't miss out. We're assessing applications throughout the recruitment process and may close this opportunity ahead of the closing date if we receive a high volume of applications.\nWhy Tesco Insurance and Money Services?\nSeeing your impact all around you: there's no better feeling.\nLucky for us, we get to feel it all the time. Because whatever our role, we're helping our colleagues and serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day.\nWe deal in the personal - from pet insurance for your best friend, and home insurance for peace of mind, to motor insurance for your dream car or travel money for that trip you’ve worked hard for.\nEverything we do is about making things better. Not just for others, but for you too. It's why you'll get bags of choice and plenty of development. It's why you'll always be heard and find balance that works for you. It's why you'll feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome.\nSo, if you want a career where you can do good and feel good, you've found it.\nLet's make everyday a little better.\nOur story\nMaking Insurance and Money Services more rewarding and offering great value and choice - because we know little wins can make a big difference.\nWe began life in 1997 and now help more than 2 million customers protect what matters to them.\nWe want to deliver a helpful service in everything we do and to make life easier for our customers. Our policies are really easy to manage online for our customers, but we know that being able to speak to our customer service staff when you need to is really important. This is why our customer service centers are open seven days a week.\nDelivering great customer service means having great people behind the scenes - people who understand our customers and are driven by doing the right thing for them. We offer colleagues a place where they can feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome, where they can be part of a great team focused on making a real difference for our customers.\nHow to apply\nWe value our people and diverse teams and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals.\nOur colleagues are working hybrid, taking time to meet with colleagues in our offices for moments that matter, such as team catch ups, planning meetings and more. 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