Data Architect for AI-Driven Data Platforms

Digital Futures; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension contributions

Wellbeing budget

Benefits & perks platform

Hybrid working

Job summary

Digital Futures is seeking a Data Architect to define and govern data and analytics architectures enabling scalable AI and digital solutions for clients. You will design data platforms for reliability, security, interoperability and growth, working with cloud data stacks and governance practices.

In this role, you will collaborate with AI engineering leads, data engineers and client architects to ensure solutions meet enterprise standards while balancing innovation and risk in a hybrid London

Qualifications

• Extensive experience as a data architect or senior data engineer for large-scale data platforms.
• Deep understanding of modern data architectures (data lakehouse, event-driven, streaming, data mesh).
• Strong knowledge of cloud data stacks (GCP BigQuery, AWS Redshift/Glue, Azure Synapse, Databricks, Snowflake).
• Experience designing data models for analytics and AI with structured and unstructured data.
• Familiarity with data governance, security, privacy and compliance considerations.
• Ability to communicate architectural concepts clearly to technical and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design target data architectures and reference patterns across cloud data platforms, analytics and AI workloads.
• Lead the definition of data models, integration patterns, storage approaches and data flows to support key use cases.
• Work closely with AI Engineering Leads, Data Engineers and client architects to ensure solutions align with enterprise standards and constraints.
• Define data governance, data quality and metadata practices required to support trusted analytics and AI.
• Provide architectural oversight across programmes, reviewing designs and guiding trade‑off decisions.
• Evaluate and recommend data and analytics technologies, tools and platforms.

Skills

Data architecture

Data governance

Cloud data stacks

Data modeling

Stakeholder communication

Security & privacy

Job description

Digital Futures is seeking a Data Architect to define and govern data and analytics architectures enabling scalable AI and digital solutions for clients. You will design data platforms for reliability, security, interoperability and growth, working with cloud data stacks and governance practices.

In this role, you will collaborate with AI engineering leads, data engineers and client architects to ensure solutions meet enterprise standards while balancing innovation and risk in a hybrid London