Cloud Data Architect — Analytics & AI Platform Lead

HCLTech; Slough; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

HCLTech is seeking a Data Architect to design and deliver cloud-based data, analytics, and AI/ML platforms. You will define scalable data architectures and guide engineering teams across GCP, Snowflake, and dbt-based ecosystems in a regulated enterprise environment.

You will work with data engineers and platform teams to ensure data governance, security, and scalable data products, enabling AI/ML use cases and robust feature datasets.

Qualifications

• Strong experience as a Data Architect in large-scale environments.
• Hands-on with Snowflake and/or GCP analytics platforms.
• Experience supporting analytics and AI/ML data products.
• Comfortable coordinating with multiple delivery teams.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end data architecture across ingestion, storage, transformation, and consumption.
• Design and govern data models and data products on GCP (BigQuery/BigLake) and Snowflake.
• Provide architectural direction for analytics engineering, including dbt-based transformation layers.
• Enable AI/ML use cases by designing feature datasets and training data pipelines.
• Ensure solutions meet data governance, security, and access control standards.
• Act as architectural authority, working with data engineers, analytics engineers, and platform teams.

Tools

BigQuery

BigLake

Dataplex

GCS

Snowflake

dbt

SQL

Terraform

Helm

Job description

HCLTech is seeking a Data Architect to design and deliver cloud-based data, analytics, and AI/ML platforms. You will define scalable data architectures and guide engineering teams across GCP, Snowflake, and dbt-based ecosystems in a regulated enterprise environment.

You will work with data engineers and platform teams to ensure data governance, security, and scalable data products, enabling AI/ML use cases and robust feature datasets.