Data & AI Platform Architect — Snowflake & GenAI

RX Brasil; City Of London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Elsevier is seeking a Solution Architect to lead the design and evolution of an Enterprise Data Platform focused on Snowflake-based data warehousing and AI-enabled capabilities. You will collaborate with engineering, data and business stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable data platform solutions that enable strategic outcomes.

The role emphasizes real-time ingestion, API-led integration and adherence to governance, security and compliance, with opportunities to shape technology strategy

Qualifications

• Significant experience in software development, solution architecture or data-platform architecture.
• Strong experience designing Snowflake data warehouse solutions and working across the Snowflake ecosystem.
• Experience with real-time ingestion, streaming and processing technologies, API design and AI-enabled solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and design of Snowflake-based data warehouse solutions and dependent systems.
• Develop next-generation platform capabilities, including real-time ingestion and AI-driven insights.
• Design data structures and interfaces supporting natural-language querying and GenAI use cases.
• Support adoption of modern data-engineering methods and best-in-class tooling.
• Integrate data toolchains with internal systems using API-driven approaches.
• Establish secure, standardised best practices across data warehousing, integration and AI tooling.
• Define inter-system data flows, architectural roadmaps and governance standards.
• Ensure solutions comply with corporate policies and standards.
• Problem-solve with teams to troubleshoot complex system issues.
• Drive technical direction and architecture evolution via reviews and roadmaps.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Snowflake

AWS

Azure

APIs

CI/CD

GenAI

Data governance

Tools

Snowflake

DBT

SqlDBM

Tableau

GitHub

Jira

Kinesis

S3

Lambda

Job description

Elsevier is seeking a Solution Architect to lead the design and evolution of an Enterprise Data Platform focused on Snowflake-based data warehousing and AI-enabled capabilities. You will collaborate with engineering, data and business stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable data platform solutions that enable strategic outcomes.

The role emphasizes real-time ingestion, API-led integration and adherence to governance, security and compliance, with opportunities to shape technology strategy