Senior Data & AI Solutions Architect - Financial Services

AmazonWebServices; Greater London; On-site; GBP 63,000 - 103,000; Full time

Job summary

AWS in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced data and AI architect to lead data architectures, governance, and platform design for large financial services engagements. You will guide AI-ready data estates, real-time pipelines, and regulatory-compliant RAG patterns across multi-jurisdictional data ecosystems.

You will engage with executive stakeholders, shape long-term strategies, and publish thought leadership while aligning data investments with measurable AI value outcomes.

Qualifications

• Master's degree or above in CS/engineering/math or a related field.
• Experience in IT development or consulting in software or Internet industries.
• Experience in software/cloud/systems/infrastructure/security/data analytics domains.
• Experience with relational DBMS, Elastic-Search, and Big Data tools or ML deployment.
• Experience communicating with executive stakeholders and clients.
• Experience with Data & AI tech including AI/ML, GenAI, analytics, storage.
• PhD or AWS service experience (S3, Redshift, Sagemaker, EMR, Kinesis, Lambda, EC2).
• Knowledge of general AI tools.
• Knowledge of data engineering pipelines, ETL, databases, visualizations, analytics platforms.
• Experience with Power BI, Python, SQL, Tableau or large-scale data mining/tools.
• Experience developing, deploying, and managing AI products at scale.
• Experience with data governance, lineage, and quality in regulated industries.

Responsibilities

• Serve as trusted technical advisor for data and AI strategy in Global FS accounts.
• Design data architectures like lakehouses, knowledge graphs, vector stores, and real-time pipelines.
• Guide customers on AI-ready data estates including quality, lineage, governance, and retrieval frameworks.
• Advise on agentic system architecture including RAG, multi-agent orchestration, and guardrails.
• Collaborate with account teams and GenAI specialists to shape long-term AI value strategies.
• Engage at senior technical and executive levels translating complex concepts to business outcomes.
• Develop reference architectures for regulatory-compliant RAG and multi-jurisdictional data mesh.
• Publish thought leadership content on data foundations for AI and agentic design.
• Partner with service teams to influence roadmap priorities based on customer needs.
• Stay current on trends in data architecture, foundation models, and agentic AI frameworks.
• Design data platforms that underpin agentic AI workloads and governance models.
• Review retrieval and grounding architectures.
• Advise on governance models satisfying regulators while enabling AI innovation.
• Help customers connect data investments to AI outcomes leadership demands.

Skills

Advanced degree equivalency

IT development/consulting

Cloud/software systems

Data infrastructures & ML

Executive communication

Data & AI technologies

AWS services proficiency

AI tools knowledge

Data engineering pipelines

Analytics platforms (Power BI/Tableau)

AI products at scale

Data governance & quality in regulated

Education

Master's degree in CS/engineering/math

PhD in CS/ML/engineering or AWS experience

Tools

S3

Redshift

Sagemaker

EMR

Kinesis

Lambda

EC2

OpenSearch

Oracle

SAP

Power BI

Tableau

SQL

Job description

AWS in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced data and AI architect to lead data architectures, governance, and platform design for large financial services engagements. You will guide AI-ready data estates, real-time pipelines, and regulatory-compliant RAG patterns across multi-jurisdictional data ecosystems.

You will engage with executive stakeholders, shape long-term strategies, and publish thought leadership while aligning data investments with measurable AI value outcomes.