Associate Director - Data Architect- London, Bristol, Cardiff, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Glasgow, Edinburgh

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

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Role Overview

As an Associate Director - Data Architecture, you will provide technical leadership across data, analytics, automation and AI initiatives, translating strategy into scalable, secure and business-aligned solutions. The role combines data architecture expertise with broader solution design responsibilities, establishing standards, driving technical quality and acting as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders. Success in the role comes from balancing technical excellence, commercial awareness and people leadership while delivering reusable and scalable outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Technical Leadership

• Own the end-to-end architecture for data, analytics, and automation solutions, ensuring alignment with business objectives and data strategy.
• Define and maintain architecture standards, reference architectures and scalable delivery patterns.
• Act as the technical authority for complex programmes, balancing governance, security, scalability and delivery objectives.
• Drive architecture governance, technical assurance and quality across engagements.
• Support the development of strategic technology roadmaps and emerging capabilities, including AI-enabled solutions.

Client & Commercial Leadership

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders, translating business challenges into practical, scalable solutions.
• Lead technical workshops, architecture reviews and strategic design discussions.
• Support business development through solution design, proposals, estimation and technical presentations.
• Identify opportunities to scale successful client solutions into repeatable services and propositions.

Capability & Practice Development

• Develop reusable architecture patterns, accelerators and frameworks that improve delivery consistency and efficiency.
• Support the establishment of best practice for data modelling, integration, governance and engineering standards.
• Mentor and develop architects, engineers and BI professionals across the team.
• Support recruitment, capability growth and continuous improvement of the architecture practice.

Essential

• Experience as a Lead Data Architect, Principal Engineer or equivalent senior technical leadership role.
• Experience designing data warehouses, data lakes, integration layers and API‑driven data sharing patterns.
• Strong knowledge of cloud architecture principles and modern data platform technologies.
• Experience defining data architecture, governance frameworks and operating models across complex, multi-source environments.
• Proven ability to lead technical teams and influence senior business and technology stakeholders.
• Strong communication, consulting and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience supporting bids, propositions and pre-sales activities.

Desirable

• Experience developing reusable standards, architectural patterns and scalable delivery approaches.
• Experience in real estate, construction, infrastructure or capital programmes.
• Experience collaborating with client PMO teams to implement and govern data, analytics and technology solutions within complex programme environments.
• Experience identifying, defining and delivering AI-enabled business solutions and use cases.

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We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance. 

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

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SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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