Senior Data & AI Solutions Architect - Data Platforms

CDW; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

CDW UK is looking for a Senior Solutions Architect, Data to lead the technical response on data platform opportunities within our Data & AI practice. Working with the wider solution sales organisation, you design modern data platforms—unified or federated—that collect, store, integrate, process, govern and analyse data to enable data-driven decisions and AI.

Modernisation is central: help customers move from legacy warehouses and fragmented estates toward lakehouse, warehouse, and federated

Responsibilities

• Enterprise Data Strategy - Advise customers on data strategy and target-state architecture, linking business priorities to a practical data platform roadmap that supports analytics, operational decisions and AI.
• Data Estate Modernisation - Lead the technical case for modernising legacy data warehouses, databases and fragmented data estates. Assess the current state, define migration approaches and phased roadmaps, and identify risks, dependencies and quick wins.
• Data Architecture & Modelling - Design end-to-end data platform architectures, including lakehouse, warehouse, federated and data-product approaches. Apply appropriate modelling patterns such as medallion, dimensional and domain-oriented designs.
• Data Integration & Engineering - Design ingestion and integration patterns across batch, streaming and change data capture (CDC). Define ETL/ELT, transformation and orchestration approaches suited to the customer's scale, skills and operating model.
• Data Storage & Management - Design the logical storage layer, including open table formats, database selection, partitioning, retention and lifecycle management. Work with Hybrid Platforms architects, who own physical storage and infrastructure.
• Data Governance, Discovery & Quality - Design governance into every solution, covering cataloguing, lineage, ownership, business classification, data quality and access policy. Work with Security architects, who own data protection and data loss prevention.
• Semantic Layer & Analytics - Design the semantic and business-model layer that provides consistent, trusted definitions for BI, self-service analytics and AI. Guide analytics and visualisation choices without building dashboards or reports.
• AI-Ready Data - Make sure data platforms provide the quality, context, access and governance that AI and machine learning need. Work with the Principal AI Architect on AI use cases that depend on the data foundation.
• Security, Observability & FinOps by Design - Build security, privacy, monitoring, reliability and cost management into every layer of the architecture. Give customers a clear view of consumption-based platform

Job description

CDW UK is looking for a Senior Solutions Architect, Data to lead the technical response on data platform opportunities within our Data & AI practice. Working with the wider solution sales organisation, you design modern data platforms—unified or federated—that collect, store, integrate, process, govern and analyse data to enable data-driven decisions and AI.

Modernisation is central: help customers move from legacy warehouses and fragmented estates toward lakehouse, warehouse, and federated