Data Platform Architect - AI-Ready & API-Driven

Comply; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Comply is seeking a Data Platform Architect to define the architecture and integration patterns powering our enterprise data platform. You’ll shape data products, APIs, event streams, semantic models, analytics capabilities, and AI-native interfaces for secure, scalable solutions across the business.

You will solve complex architecture challenges, partner with engineering and product teams, and create reusable patterns that accelerate delivery.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in R&D architecture.
• Proven success designing enterprise data platforms.
• Deep understanding of APIs, event-driven architectures, and distributed systems.
• Experience integrating complex SaaS platforms.
• Cloud-native architecture experience, ideally within AWS environments.
• Strong understanding of data products and modern data architecture patterns.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

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.

Skills

R&D Architecture

Data platform design

APIs

Event-driven

Distributed systems

AWS cloud

Data products

Stakeholder management

Job description

Comply is seeking a Data Platform Architect to define the architecture and integration patterns powering our enterprise data platform. You’ll shape data products, APIs, event streams, semantic models, analytics capabilities, and AI-native interfaces for secure, scalable solutions across the business.

You will solve complex architecture challenges, partner with engineering and product teams, and create reusable patterns that accelerate delivery.