Senior Data & AI Architect - Azure, Power BI, Analytics

Sword Services Greece S.A.; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Pension scheme

Private health

Job summary

Sword is seeking a senior data & AI consultant in the UK to shape, design, and deliver modern data and AI solutions across diverse client engagements. You will cover the full lifecycle from discovery to optimisation using Azure, Fabric, Power BI, and AI capabilities.

As a trusted advisor, you will influence data & analytics strategy, mentor junior colleagues, support pre-sales activities, and help grow the data & AI consultancy capability.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and delivering data & analytics solutions on Azure and Fabric.
• Ability to translate business requirements into scalable data architectures.
• Strong client-facing consultancy background and pre-sales involvement.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver end-to-end data & analytics solutions using Azure, Microsoft Fabric, and Power BI.
• Act as trusted advisor translating business needs into scalable data architectures.
• Lead data engineering and architecture across ingestion, storage, transformation, and analytics layers.
• Build and optimise Power BI reports and semantic models for insights.
• Integrate Azure AI/ML capabilities into solutions, including predictive analytics and automation workflows.
• Drive pre-sales activities, including proposals and solution design.
• Ensure solutions meet data governance, security, and compliance standards.
• Stay updated with AI innovations and advise on adoption and improvements.
• Hands-on experience with Azure data services (e.g. ADF, Synapse, Data Lake, SQL).
• Experience with Microsoft Fabric (Lakehouse, Warehousing, Data Engineering, Real-Time Analytics).
• Advanced skills in Power BI semantic modelling (DAX) and enterprise-scale deployments.
• Data architecture background including modeling and integration patterns.
• Experience building data pipelines with SQL, Python, or Spark.
• Knowledge of AI on Azure (ML, Cognitive Services, Fabric AI).
• Experience integrating AI-driven insights into data platforms and reporting solutions.
• Understanding of data governance, RBAC, and data quality frameworks.
• Familiarity with DevOps/CI-CD for data platforms (Azure DevOps, Git, automation).
• Experience in consultancy environments delivering across multiple stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of cloud cost management, performance tuning, and scalability.

Skills

Azure Data Services

Power BI

Microsoft Fabric

Data Modelling

Data Architecture

Python

Spark

Pre-sales

Client facing

Tools

Azure Data Factory

Azure Synapse

Azure Data Lake

SQL

Power BI

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Sword is seeking a senior data & AI consultant in the UK to shape, design, and deliver modern data and AI solutions across diverse client engagements. You will cover the full lifecycle from discovery to optimisation using Azure, Fabric, Power BI, and AI capabilities.

As a trusted advisor, you will influence data & analytics strategy, mentor junior colleagues, support pre-sales activities, and help grow the data & AI consultancy capability.