Unity Advisory

Data Architect

Unity Advisory

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: London • United Kingdom

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Job Level

SeniorLead

Tech Stack

BigQueryCloudERPUnity

About the role

  • Design and establish Unity’s internal data and AI architecture — defining standards, governance and scalable design patterns.
  • Transition into a client-facing role, helping CFOs architect modern, AI-ready data environments.
  • Ensure data is structured for retrieval, explainability and control.
  • Partner closely with Data Engineers, AI Engineers and Engineering Leads to translate architecture into production systems.
  • Establish enterprise data governance frameworks and embed quality, lineage and auditability into architecture.
  • Develop reference architectures and patterns that can be reused in client engagements.

Requirements

  • 8+ years’ experience in enterprise data architecture or modern cloud data platforms.
  • Proven experience designing cloud-native data environments (e.g. Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery or equivalent).
  • Deep expertise in data modelling and semantic layers.
  • Governance and operating models.
  • Data integration patterns.
  • Structured and unstructured data environments.
  • Experience designing AI-ready architectures that support LLM or RAG-based systems.
  • Strong familiarity with finance systems and processes (ERP, FP&A, reporting, tax or deal environments).
  • Comfortable operating in advisory or transformation contexts.
  • Strong commercial judgement — understands trade-offs between speed, cost and scalability.
  • Practical understanding of how LLMs interact with enterprise data.
  • Familiarity with embeddings, semantic search and hybrid retrieval concepts.
  • Appreciation of AI risks, grounding strategies and evaluation considerations.
  • Clear communicator able to translate complex architecture into business language.
Benefits
  • A truly hybrid and flexible working environment.
  • Opportunity to be at the forefront of AI-driven advisory services.
  • Empowered to shape how we scale our systems and processes.
  • Exciting opportunity to join a fast-growing business and accelerate your finance career.
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Hard Skills & Tools
data architecturecloud-native data environmentsdata modellingsemantic layersdata integration patternsAI-ready architecturesstructured dataunstructured dataembeddingssemantic search
Soft Skills
clear communicatorcommercial judgementadvisory skillstransformation skills