Hays Specialist Recruitment • City of London, London EC2V 6DN
About this role
Principal Data Architect - Energy, Renewables, Azure
£Market Rate
London / Hybrid
6 months initially
My client is an instantly recognisable consultancy who require a Principal Data Architect to lead the design, build, and operation of a multi-party, secure data-sharing platform for wind asset owners. You'll architect and run a cloud-native data platform (Azure) that enables cross-fleet analytics, benchmarking, and predictive maintenance at scale for an end client within the Renewable Energy domain.
Key Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end architecture (data model, ingestion, APIs, anonymisation, access controls)
- Design a scalable Azure PaaS data platform (ADF, Functions, ADLS, Synapse, App Service)
- Define data contracts and standards across multiple turbine OEMs
- Build robust ingestion pipelines (batch + API)
- Implement automated validation & QA frameworks
- Manage time-series SCADA data standardisation and mapping
- Implement privacy-by-design architecture
- Own RBAC, audit trails, anonymisation, and access policies
- Translate legal and governance rules into technical controls
- Own CI/CD, monitoring, incident response, SLAs
- Ensure platform runs on a predictable monthly data cycle
- Manage cost optimisation and scaling
- Lead onboarding of external partners (asset owners)
- Communicate across technical and commercial stakeholders
- Build trust in a shared-data environment
Nice to have
- Wind / Energy / industrial IoT / SCADA data experience
- Experience with data marketplaces or data sharing platforms
- Background in predictive maintenance / asset analytics
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