Principal Enterprise Data Architect

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Team overview:  

 “At Sky Data, we drive tangible business value by leveraging platform capabilities to meet real-world needs. As an Enterprise Data Architect, you'll play a crucial role in aligning with our Data Strategy ensuring we are meeting Sky's business objectives. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement agile, scalable, and integrated architectural frameworks. 

– Suzanne Cunningham, Head of Enterprise & Solution Architecture” 

What you'll do:  

• Own enterprise-level architectural direction within defined domains, ensuring alignment to Sky Data strategy and measurable business outcomes. 

• Shape business demand early, influencing problem definition and guiding initiatives toward optimal architectural outcomes. 

• Connect the dots across portfolios, proactively identifying dependencies, risks, duplication, and opportunities to simplify or accelerate delivery across the Sky Data estate. 

• Define, evolve, and communicate the enterprise data architecture (“North Star”), ensuring all initiatives incrementally progress toward the target state. 

• Drive architectural governance and decision-making, providing clear recommendations, trade-offs, and direction at senior stakeholder level. 

• Translate strategic priorities into actionable capability roadmaps, linking business goals to platform and data capability evolution. 

• Develop and maintain enterprise architecture artefacts (e.g. capability models, target views, roadmaps) to guide investment and track maturity. 

• Influence senior stakeholders, articulating architecture decisions in terms of business value, risk, and long-term impact. 

• Act as an escalation point for complex architectural challenges, resolving ambiguity and enabling progress across initiatives. 

• Ensure coherent, scalable, and reusable solutions across initiatives, reducing fragmentation and maximising platform value. 

What you'll bring:  

• Enterprise leadership & strategic direction: Proven ability to act as a proactive enterprise leader, identifying opportunities and risks ahead of demand, setting architectural direction, navigating ambiguity, and structuring undefined problems through to resolution. 

• Stakeholder influence & leadership without authority: Strong track record of influencing and constructively challenging senior stakeholders, leading without authority across multiple teams and functions to drive improved business and technology outcomes. 

• Enterprise architecture across complexity: Demonstrable experience leading architecture across complex, multi‑initiative environments, connecting the dots across domains and initiatives to deliver clarity, alignment, and consistency. 

• Decision‑making & pragmatic delivery: Clear capability to make, articulate, and own architectural decisions, balancing strategic intent with pragmatic delivery and managing trade‑offs across cost, speed, scalability, and risk. 

• Communication & narrative storytelling: Strong communication and storytelling skills, translating complex architectural concepts into clear, outcome‑focused narratives for both technical and non‑technical audiences. 

• Portfolio management & technical breadth: Ability to proactively manage and prioritise workloads across initiatives and portfolios, maintaining visibility of priorities, risks, and dependencies, supported by a broad data and technology background and experience designing secure, scalable, robust architectures (Google Cloud Platform experience beneficial; other cloud platforms also welcome). 

Benefits and perks  

There's one thing people can't stop talking about when it comes to life at Sky: the perks. Here’s a taster:   

• Free Sky TV or NOW package, including Sky Sports and Sky Cinema    

• Pension package with up to 9% employer contribution 

• Private healthcare with mental health support  

• Aviva Digital GP and dental insurance  

• Discounts on Sky products, including Sky Mobile, Sky Broadband, Sky Glass and Sky Protect   

• Sharesave and Tech schemes  

• A range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences   

How you’ll work  

We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. The hybrid working expectations for this role are 2 days in the office per week.  

 Your office space:  

Osterley:  

Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There’s also plenty of bike shelters and showers.  

On campus, you’ll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon.   

OR 

 Livingston Watermark House:  

Our lively campus is a free shuttle bus away from Livingston North train station and the town centre. Plus there’s onsite parking available for cars, motorbikes and bicycles.   

Who we are  

We’re Sky, a leading media and entertainment company who connect millions with entertainment, sports, news and arts through innovative products and services. Working with us means you’ll be bringing the joy of a better experience to more people, every day. All so we can do better and deliver better for our customers, colleagues and society. 

We’re an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We're a Disability Confident Accredited Employer, and welcome and encourage applications from all candidates. We will look to ensure a fair and consistent experience for all and will make reasonable adjustments to support you where appropriate. Please flag any adjustments you need as early as you can.  

Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.   

To be eligible for this role you are required to have the appropriate right to work in the UK. Please be aware Sky does not offer sponsorship for this position. 

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