Senior Data Platform Architect - API, AI & Cloud

Comply; York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Comply is seeking a Data Platform Architect to shape the next generation of our enterprise data platform in the United Kingdom. You will design end-to-end platform solutions, set interoperability standards, and define scalable integration patterns across API, streaming, and batch channels.

You will collaborate with product, technology, and customer teams, driving reuse, extensibility, and AI readiness while balancing security and governance in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in R&D Architecture.
• Proven success designing enterprise data platforms that drive adoption and business value.
• Deep understanding of APIs, event-driven architecture, and distributed systems.
• Experience integrating complex SaaS platforms into cohesive architectural solutions.
• Cloud-native architecture experience, ideally within AWS environments.
• Strong understanding of data products and modern data architecture patterns.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence both technical and executive audiences.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end platform solutions connecting data pipelines, data products, APIs, and analytics platforms.
• Establish architectural standards for interoperability, including APIs, event contracts, data exchange, versioning, and access controls.
• Define scalable integration patterns for customers, partners, and enterprise systems across API, streaming, batch, and self-service access.
• Create interfaces for human users, analytics tools, applications, AI agents, and LLM-powered experiences.
• Partner with Product, Technology, and Customer teams to align with platform architecture and goals.
• Identify opportunities to consolidate capabilities and increase platform reuse across the organization.
• Guide architectural decisions with engineering teams balancing scalability, governance, observability, security, and maintainability.
• Contribute to the long-term technology strategy focusing on extensibility, modularity, and AI readiness.

Skills

APIs

Event-driven

Distributed systems

AWS

Data platforms

Stakeholder mgmt

Job description

Comply is seeking a Data Platform Architect to shape the next generation of our enterprise data platform in the United Kingdom. You will design end-to-end platform solutions, set interoperability standards, and define scalable integration patterns across API, streaming, and batch channels.

You will collaborate with product, technology, and customer teams, driving reuse, extensibility, and AI readiness while balancing security and governance in a fast-moving environment.