Principal Enterprise Data Architect
Haleon
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Contract
Competitive
HybridSenior
Welcome to Haleon. We’re a purpose-driven, world-class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of millions. In just three years since our launch, we’ve grown, evolved and are now entering an exciting new chapter – one filled with bold ambitions and enormous opportunity.
Our trusted portfolio of brands – including Sensodyne®, Panadol®, Advil®, Voltaren®, Theraflu®, Otrivin®, and Centrum® – lead in resilient and growing categories. What sets us apart is our unique blend of deep human understanding and trusted science.
Now it’s time to fully realise the full potential of our business and our people. We do this through our Win as One strategy. It puts our purpose – to deliver better everyday health with humanity – at the heart of everything we do. It unites us, inspires us, and challenges us to be better every day, driven by our agile, performance-focused culture.
About the role
Are you looking to take a hands‑on role in a data and AI transformation within a multi‑national organisation? The Principal Enterprise Data Architect will provide strategic and technical leadership for the organisation’s enterprise data architecture, ensuring data platforms, models, and integration patterns enable scalable analytics, AI, and digital use cases. Acting as the senior architectural authority for data, this role shapes long‑term data architecture strategy while remaining closely engaged with delivery teams to ensure designs are practical, consistent, and fit for purpose.
You will define and govern enterprise‑wide data architecture principles, standards, and reference architectures, working closely with engineering, security, and platform teams to ensure solutions are secure, resilient, and aligned with the broader technology landscape. A key aspect of the role is influencing senior stakeholders and Value Pool leaders, translating business strategy into coherent data architecture roadmaps and guiding complex architectural decisions and trade‑offs.
The Principal Enterprise Data Architect plays a critical role in enabling data as a strategic asset, balancing innovation with architectural discipline. You will mentor architects and senior engineers, drive architectural assurance across major initiatives, and ensure data architecture evolves in a way that supports commercial value, regulatory compliance, and long‑term sustainability. The role sits within the Data Architecture and Engineering team in the Data and AI Office.
Key responsibilities
Act as the senior technical authority for data architecture, defining the long‑term enterprise data architecture strategy that supports analytics, AI, and digital initiatives.
Define, maintain, and govern data architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, and design patterns across the organisation.
Translate business strategy and Value Pool priorities into coherent data architecture roadmaps and target‑state designs.
Working with the architectural community, collaboratively define and build out Business Capability Maps.
Definition of high-level architecture for Value Pool aligned uses cases.
Offers guidance to enterprise leaders, product managers/owners and delivery teams through transformation and optimisation initiatives.
Supports the formulation of the business strategy, outcomes and capabilities and strategic technology alignment.
Providing enterprise oversight of solutions and dovetailing them into the Enterprise Architecture pillar.
Offering a sounding board, or an escalation point for any architectural decisions required.
Setting the context, defining common elements and creating patterns and standards to apply the details at a project level.
Assisting management and collaborators in evaluating the business’ mission and ensuring that the company uses its data platforms effectively.
Generating graphic representations of the overall architecture.
Provide architectural leadership and assurance across major programmes and initiatives, guiding complex design decisions and trade‑offs.
Partner closely with data engineering, platform, security, and application teams to ensure architectures are practical, scalable, secure, and fit for purpose.
Ensure consistent adoption of data modelling standards, integration patterns, and platform architectures across domains.
Lead the architectural approach to enterprise data platforms, including cloud data foundations, analytics platforms, streaming, and integration capabilities.
Influence senior business and technology stakeholders, clearly articulating architectural options, risks, and impacts.
Balance innovation with architectural discipline, enabling new data technologies and patterns to be adopted safely and sustainably.
Embed data governance, quality, security, privacy, and regulatory requirements into architecture by design.
Mentor and coach data architects and senior engineers, raising architectural capability and consistency across teams.
Contribute to technology evaluation and investment decisions, shaping tooling standards and platform evolution.
Support delivery teams throughout the lifecycle, from early concept and solution design through to industrialisation.
Qualifications and skills
Essential
Extensive experience in a senior data architecture role (Principal, Lead, or Enterprise Data Architect) within a large, complex organisation.
Proven ability to define, govern, and evolve enterprise‑scale data architectures supporting analytics, AI, and digital use cases.
Deep expertise in data architecture principles, including data modelling, integration patterns, metadata, and information lifecycle management.
Strong hands‑on experience with cloud‑based data platforms (Azure preferred or equivalent), including data lakes, data warehousing, and analytics platforms.
Demonstrated experience establishing and enforcing architecture standards, reference architectures, and design patterns across multiple teams or domains.
Proven track record of providing architectural leadership and assurance across complex, high‑impact initiatives.
Strong understanding of data governance, quality, security, privacy, and regulatory requirements, and how to embed these into architectural designs.
Ability to translate business strategy and Value Pool priorities into coherent target‑state architectures and roadmaps.
Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, including the ability to articulate architectural trade‑offs, risks, and recommendations to senior leaders.
Experience mentoring and coaching other architects and senior engineers, raising architectural maturity and consistency across the organisation.
Preferred
Experience working within large‑scale data and AI transformation programmes.
Strong familiarity with Azure‑native data technologies (e.g. Databricks, Synapse, Event Hubs, AKS, Airflow).
Experience with streaming and real‑time data architectures and event‑driven integration patterns.
Exposure to domain‑oriented or federated data architectures (e.g. data mesh‑influenced models).
Experience contributing to or shaping enterprise technology and investment roadmaps.
Background working closely with cloud platform, security, and DevOps teams on end‑to‑end solution design.
Experience in regulated or highly governed industries.
Postgraduate qualification or relevant cloud or architecture certifications.
Job Posting End Date
2026-07-11Haleon are committed to mobilising our purpose in a way that represents the diverse consumers and communities who rely on our brands every day. It guides us in creating an inclusive culture, where different backgrounds and views are valued and respected – all in support of understanding and best serving the needs of our consumers and unleashing the full potential of our people. It’s important to us that Haleon is a place where all our employees feel they truly belong.
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