Senior Data & AI Platform Architect (Snowflake & GenAI)

RX Brasil; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Elsevier is seeking a Solution Architect to lead the design of an enterprise Snowflake-based data platform that supports AI-enabled insights and compliant, scalable data services. The role partners with engineering, data and business stakeholders to build secure, governed architectures and to drive cloud-first data integration strategies.

You will shape data structures, real-time ingestion and API-led workflows, enabling GenAI use cases while aligning with governance standards across the

Qualifications

• Significant experience in software development, solution architecture or data-platform architecture.
• Strong experience designing Snowflake data warehouse solutions across the Snowflake ecosystem.
• Understanding of operational technology data, assets, dependencies and end-to-end flows in a large enterprise.
• Solution architecture across Snowflake, DBT and SqlDBM, including data modelling and schema design.
• AWS architecture including EC2, RDS, databases, SQS, Kinesis, S3 and Lambda; familiarity with Azure.
• Experience with real-time ingestion, streaming and processing, API design and AI-enabled solutions including MCP.
• Familiarity with Tableau, GitHub, Jira, CI/CD and Agile delivery.
• Strong knowledge of architectural governance, requirements gathering and end-to-end data-flow design.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and design of Snowflake-based data warehouse solutions and dependent systems.
• Develop next-generation platform capabilities including real-time ingestion, AI-driven insights and API-led integration.
• Design data structures and interfaces enabling natural-language querying and GenAI use cases.
• Support modern data-engineering methods and tooling adoption.
• Integrate data toolchains with internal systems using API-driven approaches, including MCP.
• Establish secure, standardised best practices across data warehousing, integration and AI tooling.
• Define inter-system data flows, roadmaps and governance standards.
• Ensure solutions comply with Elsevier and RELX policies and standards.
• Drive technical direction and architecture evolution via reviews and leadership.

Skills

Snowflake architecture

Data platform architecture

API design

Stakeholder management

Tools

Snowflake

DBT

SqlDBM

EC2

RDS

S3

Lambda

Job description

Elsevier is seeking a Solution Architect to lead the design of an enterprise Snowflake-based data platform that supports AI-enabled insights and compliant, scalable data services. The role partners with engineering, data and business stakeholders to build secure, governed architectures and to drive cloud-first data integration strategies.

You will shape data structures, real-time ingestion and API-led workflows, enabling GenAI use cases while aligning with governance standards across the