Solution Architect

Advancing Analytics; United States; Remote; USD 106,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote within the UK

Occasional customer visits

Salary £80k–£110k

Job summary

Advancing Analytics is seeking a lead for the technical solution in client engagements. You will design data and AI architectures, shape proposals, and guide opportunities toward a defined delivery scope. This role emphasizes pre-sales work, client-facing discovery, and clear architectural leadership.

Remote within the UK with occasional visits to customers and the team. Salary range £80,000–£110,000, depending on experience.

Qualifications

• Ability to design data and AI architectures and translate requirements into delivery plans.
• Client-facing discovery and presentation skills essential.
• Judgment to assess scope, effort, cost and delivery risk.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical solution for prospective client engagements with architecture design and pre-sales work.
• Discover client needs, shape data/AI proposals, demonstrate solutions, define delivery scope.
• Design end-to-end data and AI solutions using Azure, Databricks and related services.
• Translate business and technical needs into architecture designs for delivery teams.
• Shape Lakehouse data platforms supporting reporting, analytics and AI use cases.
• Identify technical risks early and drive mitigation and resolution.
• Run discovery workshops to understand current systems, workloads, governance, and outcomes.
• Lead technical contributions to proposals, RFP/RFI responses, architecture diagrams, and SOWs; present designs to engineers and executives.

Skills

Data/AI architecture design

Pre-sales & proposals

Client discovery & presentation

Risk assessment & mitigation

Job description

Role overview

Lead the technical solution for prospective client engagements, combining architecture design with pre-sales work. You will discover client needs, shape data and AI proposals, demonstrate solutions, and guide opportunities toward a clear delivery scope.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end data and AI solutions using Azure, Databricks, and related services, applying established standards and reference patterns.
• Translate business and technical needs into architecture designs that delivery teams can implement.
• Shape Lakehouse data platforms that support reporting, analytics, and AI use cases.
• Identify technical risks early, record them, and take responsibility for mitigation and resolution.
• Run discovery workshops to understand current systems, workloads, governance constraints, and desired outcomes.
• Lead technical contributions to proposals, RFP and RFI responses, architecture diagrams, and Statements of Work; present designs to audiences from engineers to executives.

Requirements

• The available source does not include a complete qualifications section, so specific required years of experience or certifications cannot be stated.
• The role calls for the ability to design data and AI architectures and turn requirements into practical delivery plans.
• It also requires client-facing discovery and presentation skills, plus the judgment to assess scope, effort, cost, and delivery risk.

Benefits and work setup

• Remote within the UK, with occasional visits to customers and the team.
• Salary range: £80,000–£110,000, depending on experience.