Overview

We’re Kingfisher, A team made up of over 74,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot, Castorama and Koctas to life. Guided by our purpose Better Homes. Better Lives. For Everyone. We believe a better world starts with better homes, and we work every day to make that a reality. Join us and help shape the future of home improvement. As a Data Solution Architect, you will design and govern scalable, secure, AI and data driven solutions across a complex European technology landscape. Partnering with product, engineering, and business teams, you’ll translate business needs into end to end data architectures aligned to enterprise strategy and standards, enabling analytics, reporting, and customer facing AI use cases while shaping the future evolution of the data platform. This role will be based out of the Kingfisher Southampton office or the Kingfisher Head Office in Paddington with an expectation of 12 days a month in the office.

Responsibilities

• Own end to end data solution architecture for major initiatives, from concept through delivery
• Design and document high level and detailed data architectures covering sourcing, integration, storage, processing, and consumption
• Act as the design authority for data architecture decisions, aligned to enterprise strategy, standards, and governance
• Partner with product, engineering, and business teams to meet functional and non functional requirements
• Guide delivery teams on data architecture patterns, best practices, and modern data platform choices
• Ensure compliance with data privacy, protection, and assurance policies
• Support platform modernisation, data migrations, AI enabled solutions, and continuous improvement of the architecture practice

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing end to end data solutions and large scale data migrations in complex enterprise environments
• Strong data architecture and modelling expertise across relational and non relational platforms
• Hands on experience with cloud based data platforms and modern analytics ecosystems
• Strong stakeholder management skills, able to communicate complex concepts clearly and challenge constructively
• Experience with MDM and CDP platforms (e.g. Stibo, Amperity, Riversand)
• Exposure to data warehouses, data lakes, and lakehouse architectures (e.g. Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery)
• Familiarity with modern data modelling approaches (Kimball, Data Vault, Medallion)
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and event driven/streaming technologies (Kafka, Flink, CDC)
• Knowledge of SAP and D365 data extraction approaches, BI tools (e.g. Power BI), and data governance, privacy, and security
• Experience working in large scale, multi brand or multi country organisations

Benefits

Private Health Care: Opportunity to receive up to family level cover with AXA. Join within three months of starting or at annual renewal in April. (This benefit is subject to Benefit In Kind taxation).

Kingfisher Pension Scheme: Immediate eligibility through auto-enrolment. Contribute 8% to receive a max 14% from the Company.

25 Days’ Holiday: 25 days per annum plus bank holidays as stated in your contract (pro rated for part time colleagues).

Staff Discount: 20% discount at B&Q and Screwfix. Eligible after 3 months service.

Kingfisher Share Incentive Plan (SIP): Share ownership in a tax efficient way. Save between £10 to £150 per month. Join at any time once three months service is reached.

Life Assurance: x4 Salary plus benefit equal to value of your Retirement Account (if an active member of KPS-MP) or x1 Salary if not active member.

Competitive bonus scheme that aligns to work level of role.

Kingfisher Share Save: Save with the option to buy Kingfisher plc shares at the end of a 3 or 5 year period. Offered annually. Three months service is required at the annual invitation date, normally in October.

Diversity & Inclusion

We’re committed to ensuring all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants are treated equally, regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, ethnicity, culture, religion, belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation.

How We Work

We believe in flexibility and balance. Our hybrid model blends home working for focus with time spent connecting and collaborating - whether in our offices or at offsite locations. On average, around 60% of your time will involve in-person collaboration.