Data Product Architect

Data Product Architect

Location: Hybrid - London, Blackfriars

Join us at Merlin Entertainments as we transform the future of digital guest experiences across our iconic global attractions.

Merlin is embarking on an exciting Digital and Data Transformation focused on enhancing the end-to-end guest journey in our attractions. The Data Product Architect will play pivotal role in bridging the gap between business needs and technical solutions, ensuring data products are scalable, reliable and aligned with business objectives.

About the Role

As a Data Architect, you will work alongside teams such as Product, Data Engineering/Analytics and Business Stakeholders to design data solutions that enable the business to analyse and report more accurately and lead to improved decision making.

Responsibilities

• Create and update an architectural vision and roadmap for data products.
• Define the structure, flow and integration of data products within the business.
• Work with Product Managers to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Leverage cloud services to build scalable data products.
• Ensure event-driven architectures and microservices patterns are followed.
• Ensure all data products adhere to governance, compliance and security standards.
• Work with Data engineering/analytics teams to ensure products meet user needs.
• Monitor the performance of data products and implement improvements as desired.

Skills & Experience:

• Experienced in designing and implementing data architecture within complex organisations.
• Expertise in modern data architectures I.E data lakes and warehouses.
• Hands on experience with Databricks and Cloud services (Azure, GCP OR AWS).
• Experience in using cloud-native services for data engineering and analytics.
• Experience with distributed systems, serverless data pipelines, and big data technologies (e.g., Spark, Kafka).
• Ability to define and enforce data governance standards.
• Experience in providing architectural guidance, mentorship and leading cross-functional discussions to align on architectural decisisions.

Interview Process:

• Recruiter Call
• Hiring Manager Intro
• Final Interview

Our recruitment process typically takes around 4-5 weeks, but we're always happy to work around your availability. You'll have the opportunity to be supported by our external recruitment partner at different stages along the way.

Benefits

We're growing fast and alongside a fun and friendly environment, we offer a fabulous package and amazing prospects. Benefits include Pension, Life Assurance, discretionary company bonus, 28 days' holiday and, of course, a Merlin Magic Pass which gives you and your friends and family free admission to all of our attractions worldwide, as well as 25% discount in our retail shops and restaurants and 40% discount on LEGO.

At Merlin Entertainments, we're committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. Diversity and inclusion are central to how we work - we celebrate individuality and strive to build an environment where everyone can thrive.

We're proud to be an equal opportunities employer, welcoming applications from all backgrounds and identities, including age, ethnicity, gender, disability, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, family or parental status, religion, and veteran status.