Senior Solutions Architect (Data & AI)

Location: Remote in the United Kingdom; Leeds or Manchester

Company

A data and AI platform company serving more than 20,000 organizations worldwide with solutions for analytics, data applications, AI agents, lakehouse architecture, and governance.

What you will do

• Drive technical and consumption strategies for complex enterprise customer engagements.
• Own senior technical relationships and advise executives on long-term data and AI strategy.
• Lead architecture engagements involving multi-workload platforms, enterprise migrations, real-time systems, and AI/ML at scale.
• Develop competitive strategies and lead platform evaluations and displacements.
• Orchestrate DSAs, SSAs, partners, and product teams to deliver enterprise-grade solutions.
• Mentor junior solutions architects and contribute to customer-facing thought leadership, workshops, and community content.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in solutions architecture, principal engineering, technical pre-sales leadership, or a senior customer-facing technical role.
• Expert coding proficiency in Python and SQL; Spark or PySpark experience is preferred for the role.
• Deep expertise in enterprise data architecture, distributed systems, streaming and real-time systems, lakehouse patterns, data governance, and cloud-native platforms.
• Expert-level knowledge of the Databricks Platform or equivalent expertise with competing platforms.
• Recognized technical specialization in areas such as real-time architectures, ML/AI platforms, data governance, large-scale migrations, or industry-specific solutions.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a quantitative discipline, or equivalent experience.

Nice to have

• Databricks certifications.
• Experience at Databricks, Snowflake, AWS, Google, Microsoft, or another leading data and AI company.
• Published thought leadership, conference talks, or open-source contributions.
• Retail or Consumer Packaged Goods experience with executive-level domain credibility.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote contract arrangement within the United Kingdom.
• Comprehensive regional benefits and employee perks.
• Inclusive hiring practices and a focus on diversity and equal employment opportunity.
• Collaboration with a global organization operating across more than 30 offices.

Hiring process

• Recruiter screen followed by a hiring manager screen.
• Design and architecture interview, live coding assessment, and build, demo, and pitch presentation.
• Reference check.