Lead Data & AI Solutions Architect

CDW group

Manchester

On-site

GBP 90,000 - 130,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

CDW is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect, Data to lead technical responses on data platform opportunities within CDW UK's Data & AI practice. You will design modern data platforms for secure, scalable, and cost-efficient data foundations supporting analytics and AI, including lakehouse and federated architectures on Databricks, Snowflake, Fabric and Starburst.

The role requires strong pre-sales capability, customer engagement with data stakeholders, and the ability to translate business goals

Qualifications

Typically 5+ years in data architecture, data engineering or analytics platforms with customer-facing experience.
Proven track record designing enterprise data platforms and guiding pre‑sales engagements.
Deep expertise in modern data platforms and architectural patterns.
Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to business stakeholders.
Experience building multi‑platform data solutions with governance and cost awareness.

Responsibilities

Advise customers on data strategy and target-state architecture tied to business priorities.
Lead technical case for modernising legacy data estates and define migration roadmaps.
Design end-to-end data platform architectures including lakehouse and federated models.
Define ingestion, integration, ETL/ELT and orchestration approaches for scale.
Collaborate with solution sales, partners and delivery teams to scope and handover.