Senior Manager, Solution & Data Architecture

Salary: £43,000 - 83,000 per year

Requirements:

• Proven hands-on experience designing and implementing data platform solutions, with delivery of production-grade systems at scale
• At least 2–3 years in a team lead, manager, or senior architect role with people management responsibilities
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing technical teams, including performance management, career development, and building team culture
• Experience owning delivery roadmaps, OKRs, and budgets for an architecture or engineering function
• Strong technical foundation across the data platform stack, including Databricks lakehouse architecture, Azure Synapse, and data pipeline orchestration
• Experience with data quality frameworks, data contracts, and computational governance approaches
• Understanding of retail, manufacturing, finance, or supply chain business processes and how data flows through a business
• Strong collaboration skills working alongside domain architects, lead engineers, and development teams in a peer-based environment
• Excellent communication skills translating technical architecture into understandable concepts for technical and business stakeholders
• Ability to balance strategic perspective with pragmatic delivery, including stepping into technical detail when needed while maintaining focus on team effectiveness and architectural coherence

Responsibilities:

• Lead and develop a team of solution and data architects, including coaching, performance management, career development conversations, and hiring
• Define and maintain team OKRs that align architecture delivery with broader Data & Analytics and business objectives
• Own the architecture teams roadmap, prioritising work across transformation projects and ensuring capacity is allocated effectively across workstreams
• Manage the teams budget and resource planning, including engagement with external consulting resources where needed
• Establish team ways of working, including architecture review processes, documentation standards, and quality gates
• Represent the architecture team in leadership forums, steering committees, and cross-functional planning processes
• Build a collaborative team culture that balances architectural rigour with pragmatic delivery
• Set architectural direction across the data platform, ensuring consistency and coherence of solution designs across Azure Synapse and Databricks environments
• Review and provide feedback on technical designs from solution architects and lead engineers, ensuring adherence to data platform standards and best practices
• Ensure solutions balance centralised approaches and lakehouse patterns appropriately
• Define and evolve solution patterns, reference architectures, and best practices that build quality across data products
• Lead technical design sessions with the architect team, engineering teams, and stakeholders to solve complex data platform challenges collaboratively
• Support modernisation and migration from legacy to cloud-native solutions, overseeing transitional architectures that maintain business continuity

Technologies:

• Architect
• Azure
• Cloud
• Databricks
• Support
• Flow
• Marketing

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We are Pandora, the worlds largest jewellery brand, specialising in accessible luxury jewellery made from high-quality materials and designed to inspire self-expression. We sell in more than 100 countries through 7,000 points of sale, including over 2,800 concept stores. We are headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, and employ around 39,000 people worldwide. We are committed to sustainability and have set out to halve greenhouse gas emissions across our value chain by 2030. This is a permanent or fixed-term role with flexible hybrid working, including three days in our London office. We offer career development and growth, competitive salary and regular reviews, a generous bonus scheme, hybrid working flexibility, early finish Fridays, private healthcare, employee discounts and perks, 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, the option to buy or sell leave, your birthday off, and wellness and recognition support.

last updated 34 week of 2026