About this role
Contract type: Fixed-term until 31 July 2028, full time.
Location: Premier League Offices, Paddington, W2 1HQ.
- The Digital Technology team is looking for an experienced Data Architect to design robust data solutions across the Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) ecosystem.
Working closely with engineering teams and senior stakeholders, you will:
- Translate business requirements into practical, scalable technical solutions.
- Analyse and resolve complex technical issues.
- Help maintain data and platform stability across our digital estate.
Reporting to the Digital Engineering Manager, you will own the design of data architecture and integration solutions across the Adobe Experience Platform ecosystem.
- You will turn business and technical requirements into secure, scalable and adaptable solutions, while providing technical leadership across internal teams, Adobe specialists, delivery partners and other platform owners.
- Design data architecture and integration solutions for Adobe Experience Platform and its connected services, aligned with the current architecture and the wider Premier League technology roadmap.
- Translate business needs and high-level technical requirements into clear solution designs, architecture diagrams, data flows, implementation roadmaps and engineering priorities.
- Design extensible integration frameworks, selecting appropriate patterns such as HTTP APIs, SDK-based ingestion, publish–subscribe messaging, event-driven services, and streaming or batch processing.
- Define how customer data is ingested, transformed, stored, governed, activated and consumed to support marketing journeys, digital experiences and analytics reporting.
- Own the technical design of third-party integrations, ensuring data flows are secure, resilient, supportable and capable of evolving as future requirements change.
- Lead technical discussions with platform owners, Adobe teams, vendors and delivery partners, establishing clear outcomes, responsibilities, dependencies and implementation decisions.
- Provide technical direction to software, data and platform engineers, reviewing designs and supporting implementation, testing and resolution of complex technical issues.
- Maintain oversight of platform health, governance and monitoring, including data quality, identity, reconciliation, validation, error handling, recovery and operational stability.
- Assess architecture decisions and trade-offs relating to security, privacy, performance, scalability, maintainability, platform constraints and cost optimisation.
- Contribute to business-as-usual delivery, platform stabilisation and capability development, balancing immediate operational priorities with longer-term architectural goals.
- Represent the Premier League in technical conversations and take accountability for ensuring agreed architecture and integration decisions are progressed through delivery.
- Work flexibly across the broader digital engineering and enterprise architecture agenda, building knowledge beyond the immediate Adobe assignment as organisational needs develop.