Finance Data Architect

Licensed sponsor Woking Full-time Posted 21 hours ago

You will report to the Global IT Director with a dotted line to the Head of Data and work closely with the rest of the Architecture Team. You will also engage directly with various business stakeholders and with IT, Legal, Infosec and the wider data community across ATG Entertainment.

Your core focus will be supporting the Solutions Architects (SA) and product owners across data architecture: recommending how data flows, models and contracts are captured and documented, advising on governance, and shaping solution designs and reviewing third-party proposals.

Key Responsibilities

Identifying and recording data flows and inputting into and providing design sign-off on data integrations.
Recommending and reviewing Azure stack technical designs, inputting into reviews of third-party SOWs and designs, and critiquing these to protect ATG's interests in maintaining best-practice data architecture.
Identifying and resolving governance issues around AI and data retention generally, proposing architectures to enable governed AI roll-out and supporting the production of business cases where resource or skills gaps are identified.
Creation of long-term plans to resolve existing issues caused by the prioritisation of tactical solutions.
Owning legal questions around data residency etc. and recommending safe architectures for data exchange including MCP servers and similar.
Supporting the SA's and engineer(s) to model data within the various domains.

Your Skills, Qualities, And Experience

Leadership Qualities

Self-directed and proactive - you identify problems, drive work forward and communicate progress without being prompted.
Comfortable operating as a senior individual contributor, leading through expertise and influence rather than hierarchy, while collaborating with the rest of the team to ensure key decisions are shared. Able to influence teams and stakeholders across organisational boundaries.
Able to set and uphold standards under delivery pressure without becoming a bottleneck.
Able to explain architecture decisions to commercial leaders in terms of what they enable, constrain and cost.

Essential

Proven experience as a Data Architect or senior data professional, with a demonstrable track record of designing and delivering enterprise data platforms in a commercial setting.
Modern cloud data platforms and ELT patterns, with sufficient depth in warehouse, lake and lakehouse architectures to review and challenge platform designs and critically evaluate supplier proposals, with a particular focus on the Microsoft Azure stack.
Data contract design and governance across both data-producing and data-consuming teams, including experience of canonical model delivery and best-practice master data management.
Integration design across API, event, streaming, and batch patterns.
Experience designing data architecture for AI and agentic automation use cases, including capturing business rules, exception logic and expert judgment as reusable, machine-accessible data assets to support AI/LLM tooling.
Strong stakeholder engagement skills - able to build relationships with business stakeholders and external integration partners, translate business requirements into data architecture decisions, and adapt communication style for technical and non-technical audiences.
A self-starter, comfortable operating amid uncertainty and capable of disciplined prioritisation and focused delivery.
Ability to lead technical design discussions, produce architecture documentation, and present solution options to senior stakeholders and investment committees.
Architecture practice across a complex technology estate, including current and target state views, architecture decision records, and reusable design patterns.

Desirable

Working knowledge of Microsoft Fabric, dbt and/or Snowflake (including Cortex).
Practical proficiency in SQL, Python, and transformation tooling sufficient to prototype and understand what engineering teams build and to assess it against data governance expectations.
Experience working with Finance ERP data (particularly Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations or a comparable ERP platform) with an understanding of Finance data structures and inbound/outbound data exchange requirements.
Experience of IBM TM1 (FP&A) or similar systems.
Practical experience of AI tooling, agent access patterns, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) over structured data.
Understanding of Finance business capabilities: Management Accounting, Revenue Accounting, FP&A, O2C, R2R, R2P, Tax, Treasury and Expenses - and how they are served by data platforms.
Experience in the live entertainment or sports ticketing industry, or a passion for the arts and creative industries.

About Us - Our Values

ATG Entertainment's values set the tone for how we work, how we treat one another, and the culture we continue to build across the UK and the wider organisation.

THRIVE doing what we love (with passion and dynamism)
CONNECT through every act (with collaboration and kindness)
DARE to do different (with curiosity and courage)
PERFORM at our best (with customer focus and ownership)

Our Corporate Social Responsibility pillars

Everyone At ATG Entertainment Is Expected To Play Their Part In Achieving Our Goals And Upholding Our Corporate Social Responsibility Priorities

Inclusion: Committing to creating and upholding a positive, inclusive culture that nurtures potential and supports well-being.
Sustainability: Playing your part in reducing our environmental impact and finding more sustainable ways of working.
Next Generations: Encouraging the next generation in live entertainment by contributing to our outreach and training programmes, including mentoring students and trainees, and supporting our Creative Learning and Community Partnerships work.

Our culture

You will help us uphold a positive culture around meeting our obligations, by having a positive attitude to health and safety, legal and insurance requirements and take care to understand our policies and procedures.

We are all expected to participate actively in the life of the company, and opportunities will arise for you to collaborate with others across the business. Everyone at ATG Entertainment is expected to be flexible and adapt as the needs of the business change, taking on new or different responsibilities as the need arises.

Our Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access Mission Statement - A Stage for Everyone

Our stages are a platform for compelling stories - stories that are for all, by all, and of all. We shine our spotlight on our differences and believe that understanding and celebrating these differences makes us better global citizens. We are passionate about the pursuit of true diversity and equality. We strive to make our venues beacons of these ideals in our communities. Onstage and off, we hold ourselves accountable for nurturing an inclusive culture, one in which everyone can bring their authentic selves. At ATG entertainment, we provide a stage for everyone.

We recognise that we do not have all the answers; but we strive to listen, to learn and to change in order to ensure ATG Entertainment becomes a truly inclusive organisation. We therefore welcome and encourage applications from individuals from the widest possible range of backgrounds and particularly welcome applications from those currently underrepresented in our workforce.

We are a Disability Confident Committed Employer, which means that we are taking action to ensure that people with disabilities and long-term health conditions feel supported, engaged, and able to fulfil their potential in the workplace. We will offer an interview or recruitment event to disabled candidates who tell us they wish to participate in the scheme and who demonstrate in their application that they best meet the essential criteria for the role. Where we receive more applications than we are reasonably able to interview for any given role, we will retain applications for the next available interview opportunity wherever possible.

If you would like to discuss accessibility prior to applying, please email recruitment@atgentertainment.com for a confidential discussion.