Senior Data & AI Solutions Architect

CO2007 CDW Limited; Greater London; Vor Ort; GBP 90.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

CDW UK is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect, Data to lead technical responses on data platform opportunities within the Data & AI practice. You will design data platforms ( lakehouse, warehouse or federated ), enabling secure, scalable, and cost-efficient data foundations for analytics and AI.

The role involves pre-sales activity, requirements gathering with business and IT stakeholders, and delivering credible technical designs across Databricks, Snowflake, Fabric and Starburst.

Qualifikationen

• Typically 5+ years in data architecture, data engineering or analytics platforms, including at least 3 years in a customer-facing pre-sales, consulting or solution architecture role.
• Proven track record of designing enterprise data platforms with clear examples of architectural decisions and trade-offs.
• Experience leading data estate modernisation and moving to modern cloud/hybrid platforms.

Aufgaben

• Advise customers on data strategy and target-state architecture, linking business priorities to a practical data platform roadmap.
• Lead technical case for modernising legacy data warehouses and fragmented estates; define migration approaches and roadmaps.
• Design end-to-end data platform architectures including lakehouse and data products; apply modelling patterns.
• Design ingestion and integration patterns across batch, streaming and CDC; define ETL/ELT and orchestration approaches.
• Design the logical storage layer, open table formats and lifecycle management in collaboration with Hybrid Platforms.
• Incorporate governance, discovery, quality and security into every solution with cross-functional teams.
• Design the semantic layer for BI and AI; guide analytics and visualization choices without building dashboards.
• Ensure AI-ready data with quality, context, access and governance for ML use cases.
• Provide independent platform viewpoints across Databricks, Snowflake, Fabric and Starburst; tailor recommendations to client needs.
• Lead discovery workshops, capture business and technical requirements, and contribute to RFP responses and commercials.

Kenntnisse

Data architecture

Data engineering

Analytics platforms

Pre-sales

Solution architecture

SQL

Ausbildung

Degree in CS/Data

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Microsoft Fabric

Starburst

Power BI

Jobbeschreibung

CDW UK is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect, Data to lead technical responses on data platform opportunities within the Data & AI practice. You will design data platforms ( lakehouse, warehouse or federated ), enabling secure, scalable, and cost-efficient data foundations for analytics and AI.

The role involves pre-sales activity, requirements gathering with business and IT stakeholders, and delivering credible technical designs across Databricks, Snowflake, Fabric and Starburst.