Senior AI & Data Architect — Cloud & Security Leader

Accenture UK & Ireland; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Up to 30 days vacation per year

Private medical insurance

Charity leave days per year

Job summary

Accenture UK & Ireland is seeking an AI & Data Architect / Senior Architect in London to lead complex cloud, data and AI initiatives within sovereign transformation projects. You will align business objectives with scalable architectures and drive innovations in data, security and multi-cloud strategies.

You will mentor teams, engage stakeholders, and contribute to standard patterns across client delivery. A strong foundation in cloud-native data platforms and AI solutions is essential.

Qualifications

• AI/ML architectural patterns, best practices, and platform technologies.
• Experience designing AI/ML-driven solutions and data lifecycle management.
• Data solution design, selecting the appropriate cloud-native services for data processing, management, and storage, with an emphasis on serverless microservices.
• Cloud infrastructure (networking, security, monitoring, scaling).
• Experience being a hands-on data architect (only when needed) with programme languages like Java, Scala, Python, or architecture-as-code such as linkml, turtle, owl.
• Experience with both open source and vendor data platforms.
• Experience with data architecture, architectural concepts, methodologies and approaches.
• Experience with microservices architecture.
• Experience of designing for both structured and unstructured data.

Responsibilities

• Align complex business objectives with scalable, secure cloud solutions, ensuring alignment with organisational goals.
• Drive innovation across data, AI, security, and multi-cloud strategies, enabling digital transformation.
• Design use-case and platform technology architectures to solve key business challenges using reference and cutting-edge technologies and architectural patterns.
• Work in multi-disciplinary teams to refine and deliver architecture, supporting the delivery from inception through to production.
• Provide technical leadership to shape technology strategy and solution design, managing and supporting other architects and engineers.
• Contribute to the STS and wider Data & AI community, sharing insights and experience guiding the creation and establishment of standard patterns and templates for emerging technologies based on client delivery experience and research.
• Mentor managers and consultants, building technical capability and leadership within the team.
• Engage senior stakeholders, presenting cloud strategies and architectures to executive boards and governance forums.

Skills

AI

AI/ML architectural patterns

AI/ML-driven solutions

Data solution design

Cloud infrastructure

Java, Scala, Python

Architecture-as-code (LinkML, Turtle,

Tools

LinkML

Turtle

OWL

Job description

Accenture UK & Ireland is seeking an AI & Data Architect / Senior Architect in London to lead complex cloud, data and AI initiatives within sovereign transformation projects. You will align business objectives with scalable architectures and drive innovations in data, security and multi-cloud strategies.

You will mentor teams, engage stakeholders, and contribute to standard patterns across client delivery. A strong foundation in cloud-native data platforms and AI solutions is essential.