Sky
Principal Enterprise Data Architect
We believe in better. And we make it happen.
Better content. Better products. And better careers.
Working in Tech, Product or Data at Sky is about building the next and the new. From broadband to broadcast, streaming to mobile, SkyQ to Sky Glass, we never stand still. We optimise and innovate.
We turn big ideas into the products, content and services millions of people love.
And we do it all right here at Sky.
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).
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”
The rewards
There's one thing people can't stop talking about when it comes to #LifeAtSky: the perks. Here’s a taster:
Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
The magic of Sky Glass at an exclusive rate
A generous pension package
Private healthcare
Discounted mobile and broadband
A wide range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences
Inclusion & how you'll work:
Recognised by The Times and Stonewall, we take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion. Investing in society, fighting racial injustice and setting ambitious targets for representation at Sky.
We’ve embraced hybrid working and split our time between unique office spaces and the convenience of working from home. You’ll find out more about what hybrid working looks like for your role later on in the recruitment process.
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.
We'd love to hear from you
Inventive, forward-thinking minds come together to work in Tech, Product and Data at Sky. It’s a place where you can explore what if, how far, and what next.
But better doesn’t stop at what we do, it’s how we do it, too. We embrace each other’s differences. We support our community and contribute to a sustainable future for our business and the planet.
If you believe in better, we’ll back you all the way.
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.