About this role
Salary: £61,000 - 101,000 per year
Requirements
- Strategic thinking with an analytical and creative mindset
- Experience building AI-enabled data architecture
- Commercial experience with one or more major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure); relevant certifications are preferred
- Competency in AI and/or Agentic AI
- Background in software development, data engineering, or data science, and an interest in moving into AI and Data Architecture
- Expertise across key data domains, including data modelling, pipelining, governance, and data consumption
- Working knowledge of platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, or Palantir
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Experience in client-facing environments and a track record of architecting complex data solutions
- Experience leading technical teams and coordinating across project streams to deliver high-quality Data and AI solutions
Responsibilities
- Assist client teams in designing and implementing scalable data solutions using modern technologies, with guidance from senior colleagues
- Identify gaps and inefficiencies in clients existing architectures and support analysis and solution development
- Help shape strategies and roadmaps to improve clients AI and Data architectures
- Provide architectural support to delivery teams, ensuring solutions are technically sound, scalable, and aligned with agreed principles throughout delivery
- Participate in client workshops, supporting preparation, documentation, and follow-up
- Gather client requirements and help ensure project deliverables meet their needs
- Share ideas on innovation, emerging technologies, and modern data and AI architecture patterns in client and internal forums
- Learn from and collaborate with experienced colleagues, and participate in internal networks and special interest groups
- Lead and mentor junior architects on architectural patterns, standards, and best practices, supporting their professional development
- Prototype new technologies and develop proofs of concept to validate ideas and inform recommendations
- Build and maintain relationships with client architecture and technology stakeholders, advising them and aligning objectives, architectural direction, and delivery outcomes
Technologies
- Agentic AI
- AI
- AWS
- Azure
- Cloud
- Databricks
- GCP
- Support
- Network
- Snowflake
- Architect
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We are recruiting an AI & Data Architecture Associate Manager for our AI & Data practice, based in Bristol or Edinburgh. We are a global professional services and technology consultancy, working with organizations around the world across strategy and consulting, technology, operations, engineering, and creative services. Our AI & Data teams deliver scalable, business-critical solutions, design modern AI-ready data platforms, and help clients use cloud and AI technologies to create new business opportunities. This role offers exposure to generative AI, agentic technologies, emerging tools, innovative projects, training, mentorship, and a global network of experts.
We offer a competitive salary based on experience, 25 days of vacation, a gym subsidy, private medical insurance, and three additional days of leave per year for charitable work. Flexibility and mobility are required, including time onsite with clients and partners. Applications close on 22 January 2027; we may close the role earlier if we find a suitable applicant. We are committed to inclusion and diversity and make employment decisions without discrimination on grounds protected by applicable law.
last updated 46 week of 2026