Engagement Lead / Principal Architect

🛠️ Skills: Azure, SQL Server, Databricks

We're seeking a senior Principal Data Architecture Engagement Lead to lead a strategic data-transformation and target-state architecture engagement for a major banking client. This role combines engagement leadership, enterprise data architecture, governance and executive stakeholder management. The successful candidate will be accountable for establishing the delivery framework, managing r…

Secure read-only access to SQL Server system metadata and stand up the approved analysis workspace and repository within the first two weeks; this gate governs the whole plan.

Agree the RACI, standards, templates and working cadence with Mizuho, and lock the fortnightly delivery-leadership review and the escalation path into the architecture board.

Map stakeholders and secure a single named coordination point per business domain (a stated dependency of the proposal, and the primary schedule risk).

Own the risk, issue and dependency log; escalate stakeholder-availability slippage early rather than absorbing it into float.

Chair the DACI forum for contested and multi-domain items