Group Data Architect – AI/ML & Cloud Analytics

HCLTech; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

HCLTech in London is seeking a Group Technical Architect to define and govern enterprise data architectures across ingestion, storage, transformation, and consumption layers. The role requires hands-on experience with Snowflake and GCP analytics platforms and leadership across multiple delivery teams.

The ideal candidate will design data models, enable AI/ML data pipelines, and ensure governance and security standards.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end data architecture across ingestion, storage, transformation, and consumption layers.
• 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, training data pipelines, and model consumption patterns.
• Ensure solutions meet data governance, security, and access control standards.
• Act as architectural authority, working closely with data engineers, analytics engineers, and platform teams.

Skills

Data Architecture

GCP BigQuery

dbt Modelling

Terraform

CI/CD

Security & Access

SQL

Tools

Snowflake

BigQuery

Dataplex

Job description

HCLTech in London is seeking a Group Technical Architect to define and govern enterprise data architectures across ingestion, storage, transformation, and consumption layers. The role requires hands-on experience with Snowflake and GCP analytics platforms and leadership across multiple delivery teams.

The ideal candidate will design data models, enable AI/ML data pipelines, and ensure governance and security standards.