Data Platform Architect

ComplySci; Greater London; On-site; GBP 69,000 - 109,000; Full time

Job summary

ComplySci is seeking an experienced R&D Architecture leader in the United Kingdom to design end-to-end platform solutions that connect data pipelines, data products, and AI-ready interfaces. You will establish standards for interoperability, API contracts, and secure data exchanges while guiding integration patterns across API, streaming, and batch channels.

You will partner with Product, Technology, and Customer teams to ensure alignment with long-term platform goals.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in R&D Architecture.
• Proven success designing enterprise data platforms that drive adoption and business value.
• Deep understanding of APIs, event-driven architecture, and distributed systems.
• Experience integrating complex SaaS platforms into cohesive architectural solutions.
• Cloud-native architecture experience, ideally within AWS environments.
• Strong understanding of data products and modern data architecture patterns.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence both technical and executive audiences.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end platform solutions that connect data pipelines, data products, the security master, semantic models, lakehouse technologies, APIs, event-driven services, AI interfaces, and analytics platforms.
• Establish architectural standards for interoperability, including API design, event contracts, data exchange patterns, versioning, and access controls.
• Define scalable integration patterns for customers, partners, and enterprise systems across API, streaming, batch, and self-service access channels.
• Create consistent interfaces that support human users, analytics tools, applications, AI agents, MCP-compatible clients, and LLM-powered experiences.
• Partner with Product, Technology, and Customer teams to ensure new initiatives align with platform architecture and long-term strategic goals.
• Identify opportunities to consolidate capabilities, reduce duplication, and increase platform reuse across the organization.
• Guide architectural decisions with engineering teams while balancing scalability, governance, observability, security, and maintainability.
• Contribute to the long-term technology strategy with a focus on extensibility, modularity, composability, and AI readiness.
• Assess the current Data Platform landscape and deliver a documented target-state architecture covering interoperability, integrations, and platform consumption patterns within our first 90 days.
• Define and socialize core standards for APIs, event contracts, data exchange, versioning, and access management.
• Partner with key stakeholders to guide at least one strategic platform initiative through architecture review and implementation planning.

Skills

8+ years R&D architecture

Enterprise data platform design

APIs & event-driven architecture

Distributed systems

SaaS integration

AWS cloud-native

Data products & modern data patterns

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Lakehouse / AI integration (nice-to-ha

Job description

Salary: £69,000 - 109,000 per year

Requirements

• We require 8+ years of experience in R&D Architecture.
• We require proven success designing enterprise data platforms that drive adoption and business value.
• We require deep understanding of APIs, event-driven architecture, and distributed systems.
• We require experience integrating complex SaaS platforms into cohesive architectural solutions.
• We require cloud-native architecture experience, ideally within AWS environments.
• We require a strong understanding of data products and modern data architecture patterns.
• We require excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence both technical and executive audiences.
• Nice-to-have experience includes lakehouse architectures, semantic technologies or knowledge graphs, event streaming platforms, MCP or AI integration frameworks, enterprise integration patterns, financial services or RegTech experience, identity and access management, and API management platforms.

Responsibilities

• We design end-to-end platform solutions that connect data pipelines, data products, the security master, semantic models, lakehouse technologies, APIs, event-driven services, AI interfaces, and analytics platforms.
• We establish architectural standards for interoperability, including API design, event contracts, data exchange patterns, versioning, and access controls.
• We define scalable integration patterns for customers, partners, and enterprise systems across API, streaming, batch, and self-service access channels.
• We create consistent interfaces that support human users, analytics tools, applications, AI agents, MCP-compatible clients, and LLM-powered experiences.
• We partner with Product, Technology, and Customer teams to ensure new initiatives align with platform architecture and long-term strategic goals.
• We identify opportunities to consolidate capabilities, reduce duplication, and increase platform reuse across the organization.
• We guide architectural decisions with engineering teams while balancing scalability, governance, observability, security, and maintainability.
• We contribute to the long-term technology strategy with a focus on extensibility, modularity, composability, and AI readiness.
• We assess the current Data Platform landscape and deliver a documented target-state architecture covering interoperability, integrations, and platform consumption patterns within our first 90 days.
• We define and socialize core standards for APIs, event contracts, data exchange, versioning, and access management.
• We partner with key stakeholders to guide at least one strategic platform initiative through architecture review and implementation planning.

Technologies

• AI
• AI Agents
• API
• AWS
• Cloud
• Support
• LLM
• MCP
• Security
• Architect

More

We are Comply, the leading provider of compliance SaaS and consulting services for the global financial services sector, serving more than 5,000 clients worldwide. We empower Chief Compliance Officers and their teams to proactively manage regulatory obligations, mitigate risk, and scale with efficiency and confidence. Our clients include broker-dealers, insurers, investment banks, private funds, RIAs, and wealth managers. In this role, you will help shape the next generation of our enterprise data platform, working closely with engineering, product, and customer teams on secure, scalable, reusable, and AI-ready architecture. We are an equal opportunity employer, and applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the United Kingdom. We also note that we are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.