Location
Premier League Offices, Paddington, London, W2 1HQ

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
The Digital Technology team at the Premier League is seeking an experienced Data Architect to design robust data solutions across the Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) ecosystem. Reporting to the Digital Engineering Manager, you will own the design of data architecture and integration solutions, translating business and technical requirements into secure, scalable, and adaptable solutions. You will provide technical leadership across internal teams, Adobe specialists, delivery partners, and other platform owners.

Your responsibilities will include designing data architecture and integration solutions aligned with the Premier League technology roadmap, creating solution designs, architecture diagrams, data flows, and implementation roadmaps. You will design extensible integration frameworks using patterns such as HTTP APIs, SDK-based ingestion, publish–subscribe messaging, event-driven services, and streaming or batch processing.

You will define how customer data is ingested, transformed, stored, governed, activated, and consumed to support marketing journeys, digital experiences, and analytics reporting. You will own the technical design of third-party integrations ensuring secure, resilient, and supportable data flows capable of evolving with future requirements.

Leading technical discussions with platform owners, Adobe teams, vendors, and delivery partners, you will establish clear outcomes, responsibilities, dependencies, and implementation decisions. You will provide technical direction to software, data, and platform engineers, reviewing designs and supporting implementation, testing, and resolution of complex technical issues.

Maintaining oversight of platform health, governance, and monitoring—including data quality, identity, reconciliation, validation, error handling, recovery, and operational stability—will be key. You will assess architecture decisions and trade-offs related to security, privacy, performance, scalability, maintainability, platform constraints, and cost optimisation.

You will contribute to business-as-usual delivery, platform stabilisation, and capability development, balancing immediate operational priorities with longer-term architectural goals. Representing the Premier League in technical conversations, you will ensure agreed architecture and integration decisions progress through delivery.

The role requires flexibility to work across the broader digital engineering and enterprise architecture agenda, building knowledge beyond the immediate Adobe assignment as organisational needs evolve.

Experience
Significant experience as a Data Architect, Solution Architect, or Enterprise Architect with strong exposure to customer-data platforms and data architecture environments. Proven ability to design and implement enterprise integration solutions using diverse industry-standard patterns. Strong working knowledge of Adobe Experience Platform and its integration landscape, including Real-Time CDP, Adobe Journey Optimizer, and Customer Journey Analytics.

Experience defining architecture frameworks, dependencies, and design approaches that deliver practical, extensible solutions. Strong understanding of end-to-end data flows including ingestion, transformation, storage, identity, governance, activation, and consumption. Practical knowledge of secure data movement, access controls, consent, privacy, retention, and governance requirements.

Ability to assess and resolve complex data, integration, and platform issues, identify root causes, and recommend proportionate solutions. Confidence in leading technical discussions with internal stakeholders, vendors, partners, and specialist engineering teams, including constructively challenging proposals.

Ability to provide solution-level technical judgement while remaining willing to work at the implementation level when required. Clear written and verbal communication skills to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

About you
A proactive learner with flexibility to explore new technologies and broaden into enterprise architecture responsibilities. Adaptable to evolving role requirements and organisational needs. Strong collaborator with excellent leadership and communication skills.

Qualifications
Relevant qualifications or certifications in data architecture, solution architecture, or related fields are advantageous but not explicitly required. Demonstrated expertise and experience are paramount.