Senior Data Architect: AI Platforms & Data Foundations

Sure Exec Search; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Sure Exec Search is seeking an experienced Data Architect in London. The role is hybrid with a minimum on-site presence and an ASAP start.

You will shape data foundations to enable secure, scalable AI products, balancing architectural principles with practical delivery across data, applications, models, APIs and shared components. Reporting to the in‑house AI leadership, you will work across security, governance and observability while mentoring engineers and contributing to implementation where

Qualifications

• 6+ years of relevant experience in data architecture, solution architecture, data engineering or a related technical role.
• Strong experience designing scalable data and application architectures in cloud environments, with Microsoft Azure particularly relevant.
• Experience designing data models, APIs, integrations and data flows across databases, SaaS applications and enterprise systems.
• Good working knowledge of SQL and modern data engineering approaches, including Python.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve the data and technical architecture underpinning a portfolio of proprietary AI products.
• Define scalable patterns for how applications, data sources, models, APIs and enterprise systems connect and interact.
• Design approaches to data modelling, access, storage, movement and governance, with particular care for sensitive and business‑critical information.

Skills

Data architecture

Azure

SQL

Python

SDLC

Security governance

Tools

Azure

SQL

Python

Job description

Sure Exec Search is seeking an experienced Data Architect in London. The role is hybrid with a minimum on-site presence and an ASAP start.

You will shape data foundations to enable secure, scalable AI products, balancing architectural principles with practical delivery across data, applications, models, APIs and shared components. Reporting to the in‑house AI leadership, you will work across security, governance and observability while mentoring engineers and contributing to implementation where