Solution Architect (Data & AI Platform)

Salary: £65,000 - 105,000 per year

Requirements:

• Significant experience in software development, solution architecture, or data-platform architecture
• Strong experience designing Snowflake data warehouse solutions and working across the Snowflake ecosystem
• Understanding of operational technology data, technology assets, dependencies, relationships, and end-to-end flows within a large enterprise
• Solution architecture experience across Snowflake, DBT, and SqlDBM, including data modelling and schema design
• AWS architecture experience, including EC2, RDS, databases, SQS, Kinesis, S3, and Lambda, plus familiarity with Azure
• Experience with real-time ingestion, streaming and processing technologies, API design, graph databases, and AI-enabled solutions, including MCP
• Familiarity with Tableau, GitHub, Jira, CI/CD, and Agile delivery
• Strong knowledge of architectural governance, requirements gathering, and end-to-end data-flow design
• Strong organisational, project planning, and time management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, complex projects, and change initiatives across diverse teams
• Excellent problem-solving abilities, including identifying issues, assessing risks, developing solutions, and coordinating resources
• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to audiences from engineers to senior executives

Responsibilities:

• Lead the architecture and design of Snowflake-based data warehouse solutions and dependent systems
• Develop next-generation platform capabilities, including real-time ingestion, AI-driven insights, and API-led integration
• Design data structures and interfaces that enable natural-language querying and GenAI use cases
• Support the adoption of modern data-engineering methods and best-in-class tooling
• Integrate data toolchains with internal systems using API-driven approaches, including MCP
• Establish secure, standardised best practices across data warehousing, integration, and AI tooling
• Define inter-system data flows, architectural roadmaps, and governance standards
• Ensure solutions comply with our policies and standards
• Lead teams in identifying, researching, and coordinating resources to troubleshoot and diagnose complex system issues
• Drive technical direction and architecture evolution through reviews, roadmaps, and on-floor leadership

Technologies:

• AI
• API
• AWS
• Lambda
• Architect
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Data Warehouse
• EC2
• Embedded
• Flow
• GitHub
• Support
• JIRA
• MCP
• Snowflake
• Tableau
• dbt

More:

We are hiring a Solution Architect for our Operational Data Platform, working alongside an embedded engineering team to shape Snowflake-based data warehouse solutions, related systems, and AI-enabled capabilities. The role partners with engineering, data, and business stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, and compliant platform capabilities that support strategic business outcomes. Our TIO Architecture Team provides design and architecture consultancy across Elseviers Technology Infrastructure and Operations organization, including cloud technology, company-wide user experience, developer tooling, and development platforms, with a strategic focus on AI. We are a global leader in information and analytics, supporting researchers and healthcare professionals to advance science and improve health outcomes. The role is based at London Wall, United Kingdom, and is full time, with flexible working hours. We offer wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance, sabbaticals, and country-specific benefits. We are an equal opportunity employer and provide a fair and accessible hiring process.

last updated 40 week of 2026