Senior AI Data Platform & Data Space Architect

NTT Limited; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

NTT DATA is seeking a Forward Deployment Engineer specializing in AI data platforms and sovereign data spaces. You will work directly with clients to assess data ecosystems, design AI-ready platforms, and deliver production-ready solutions that accelerate AI transformation.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in enterprise data roles, strong experience with data lakes, lakehouses, data warehouses, ETL/ELT, APIs, and modern data architectures, in a cloud/hybrid environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Forward Deployment / Data Platform related roles.
• Proven experience designing enterprise data platforms, AI data layers and sovereign data spaces.
• Deep expertise in data lakes, lakehouses, data warehouses, ETL/ELT, data federation, data virtualization, APIs, event-driven architectures, and distributed data systems.
• Strong understanding of AI-ready data architectures supporting analytics, machine learning, generative AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), vector databases and knowledge graphs.
• Experience with sovereign data ecosystems and interoperability frameworks such as GAIA-X, IDSA and DSIF, with ability to innovate beyond reference implementations.
• Broad knowledge of modern cloud, hybrid and enterprise technologies; quick to learn and adopt emerging tools.
• Experience with containerization, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, DataOps/MLOps, observability and secure-by-design practices.
• Excellent consulting, communication, stakeholder management and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Engage with customers to identify business challenges, data opportunities, and AI use cases.
• Assess enterprise data ecosystems, applications, infrastructure, and digital maturity.
• Define roadmaps for AI-native transformation, focusing on AI-ready data platforms and sovereign data spaces.
• Design, develop, and deploy production-ready data platforms, data spaces, and rapid PoVs.
• Architect modern data solutions including data lakes, lakehouses, data warehouses, and federated data spaces.
• Design scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, API-driven integrations, streaming architectures, and AI-ready data layers.
• Build data space solutions that extend GAIA-X, IDSA and DSIF standards for client needs.
• Recommend technologies and architectures while remaining technology-agnostic and leveraging AI-assisted development.
• Ensure solutions are secure by design, scalable, maintainable and compliant.

Skills

Data architectures

AI-ready data platforms

Sovereign data spaces

Data lakes & lakehouses

Data warehouses

ETL/ELT

APIs & integration

GAIA-X/IDSA/DSIF

Cloud & hybrid tech

MLOps/DataOps

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD

DataOps

Observability

Job description

NTT DATA is seeking a Forward Deployment Engineer specializing in AI data platforms and sovereign data spaces. You will work directly with clients to assess data ecosystems, design AI-ready platforms, and deliver production-ready solutions that accelerate AI transformation.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in enterprise data roles, strong experience with data lakes, lakehouses, data warehouses, ETL/ELT, APIs, and modern data architectures, in a cloud/hybrid environment.