Pre-Sales Data & AI Solution Architect (Remote UK)

Advancing Analytics; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Industry matching Maternity & Paternal

Private Medical & Dental Care

Health & Well-being fund

25 Days Annual Leave

Birthday Leave & Charity Leave

Away days with the team

Flexible Working Hours

Electric Car Scheme

Databricks Champion Status Bonus!

Job summary

Advancing Analytics is seeking a Solution Architect to drive technical wins in a remote UK role. You will design end-to-end data and AI solutions using Azure and Databricks, shape proposals, and deliver compelling demos to clients.

You’ll own RFPs/RFIs, guide opportunities from discovery to SoW, and collaborate with Sales, Leadership, and Delivery Leads. You will help clients unlock modern data and AI capabilities, align technical designs with business value, and contribute to strategic

Qualifications

• Proven experience in technical pre-sales, designing cloud data architectures, with hands-on consulting on Azure and Databricks.
• Working knowledge of data engineering, ML/AI engineering, data governance, and platform design.
• Experience designing and presenting scalable, secure, and cost-effective solutions using established patterns and standards.

Responsibilities

• Design and document end-to-end data and AI solutions using Azure, Databricks, and related services.
• Translate business and technical requirements into clear architecture designs that delivery teams can build.
• Apply our existing standards, patterns, and reference architectures.
• Identify technical risks early, own them on the project risk register and be accountable for their mitigation and resolution.
• Produce design artefacts and present them at architectural forums, from engineering teams through to senior executives.
• Shape and guide the design of intelligent data platform projects using Lakehouse architectures, making data available for reporting, AI, and analytics.
• Get involved early in client conversations to qualify opportunities and recommend the right approach.
• Run structured discovery workshops with data, analytics, and platform teams. Capture requirements, current state, workloads, governance constraints, and target outcomes.
• Shape the solution with subject matter experts across the business. Make designs scalable, supportable, cost-effective, and aligned with our standards.
• Own the technical content of RFP and RFI responses, proposals, architecture diagrams, and Statements of Work.
• Own the technical view on scope, effort, and delivery risk for opportunities.
• Run technical pitches and demos. Handle deep technical and business-value questions.
• Work with Databricks field teams on joint pursuits and co-selling.
• Build strong relationships with clients and become a trusted technical advisor.
• Take complex technical concepts and translate them into plain language and clear business outcomes for senior business leaders, technology leads, and internal sales teams.
• Hand each won opportunity to delivery with a clear, complete design. Walk the Solution Architect through scope, assumptions, risks, and estimates.

Skills

Azure

Databricks

Pre-sales

Data architecture

AI/ML engineering

Data governance

Cloud data platforms

Tools

Azure

Databricks

Job description

Advancing Analytics is seeking a Solution Architect to drive technical wins in a remote UK role. You will design end-to-end data and AI solutions using Azure and Databricks, shape proposals, and deliver compelling demos to clients.

You’ll own RFPs/RFIs, guide opportunities from discovery to SoW, and collaborate with Sales, Leadership, and Delivery Leads. You will help clients unlock modern data and AI capabilities, align technical designs with business value, and contribute to strategic