Data Architect / Technical Lead – Founding Data Hire

<strong>Location:</strong> London (hybrid) <strong>Employment type:</strong> Full-time <strong>Package:</strong> £80,000–£140,000, dependent on experience <strong>Reporting to:</strong> Founder/CEO <strong>Search led by:</strong> Exec Capital <strong>The Opportunity</strong> Our client is a London-based youth-culture media group whose brands reach an audience of more than 120 million people every month, producing work for 75+ global brand partners.

The business is building the next layer of its offering: a first-party behavioural data engine that turns what its audience watches, joins and responds to into structured, consented signal — the foundation for the audience-intelligence work that follows. This is a genuine founding appointment. You would be the company's first senior data hire, owning the architecture and technical direction of the data engine end-to-end, with a direct line to the founder/CEO.

There is no technical layer above you on this project — the design decisions are yours to own and defend. <strong>The Role</strong> You will design and stand up the data warehouse and ELT architecture, define the behavioural signal schema, and set the data governance model the business will be judged on by clients and investors. You'll work with editorial and social teams to embed data collection into daily content operations, and prepare the datasets that future intelligence and modelling work — including a planned AI venture — will be built on.

You may also scope and hire supporting engineering resource as the function grows.