London | Hybrid (3 days/week onsite)
Permanent FTE or contract option (6 months/inside IR35) available for this role
Sponsorship is not available
A leading consulting organisation is expanding its Data & AI practice and is looking for an experienced Data & AI Platform Architect.
What you’ll be doing
* Designing modern cloud‑centric data, analytics and AI platform architectures
* Advising clients on best‑practice approaches to data strategy, governance, ML and GenAI adoption
* Leading small delivery teams or workstreams, ensuring high‑quality solution implementation
* Staying hands-on enough to guide build, tooling choices and platform engineering decisions
What you’ll bring
* 5+ years' experience designing and delivering data, analytics or AI solutions
* Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture and modern engineering practices
* Solid grounding in data management across the full lifecycle
* Good knowledge of CI/CD, automation and contemporary infrastructure approaches
* Ability to articulate ML, Generative AI and LLM concepts
* Experience in regulated or public‑sector environments is beneficial