Data and AI Data Architect or Engineer

Wavestone is seeking a Data Architect or Data Engineer to support the design and delivery of innovative data solutions for clients operating in complex regulated environments including Banking Insurance Wealth & Asset Management and Life Sciences.

In this client-facing role you will work with business and technology stakeholders to define data architectures build scalable data platforms and pipelines and establish strong data governance practices. You will help organisations unlock the value of their data by enabling advanced analytics AI and data-driven decision-making while contributing to the successful delivery of large-scale transformation programmes.

This is an ideal role for someone who combines:

• Strong data architecture and engineering expertise with the ability to communicate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience designing and delivering modern data platforms pipelines and integration architectures.
• A solid understanding of data governance operating models metadata lineage and data quality frameworks.
• The ability to operate across the full data lifecycle from strategy and architecture through to delivery adoption and optimisation.

As a member of the Data & AI Practice your key responsibilities will cover client delivery business development thought leadership and people development. Depending on your level of experience you will be expected to:

• Lead & Deliver Engagements: Take a leading role in delivering complex data transformation programmes helping clients define data strategies design enterprise data architectures and implement modern cloud data platforms. You will provide architectural leadership across delivery teams translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions and ensure successful outcomes from strategy through to implementation.

• Data Strategy Architecture & Platform Advisory: Advise clients on enterprise data strategies target operating models governance frameworks and modern architecture patterns including data lakes data warehouses lakehouses and data mesh. You will conduct architecture assessments and provide vendor-independent guidance on platform and technology choices.

• Data Engineering & AI Enablement: Support the design of scalable data pipelines integration frameworks and cloud-native data solutions that enable trusted high-quality data across the organisation. You will help establish the data foundations required for advanced analytics machine learning AI and GenAI use cases.

• Business Development: Act as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert during sales and pre-sales activities helping shape solution approaches contribute to proposals and RFP responses and identify opportunities to grow Wavestones Data & AI footprint across strategic accounts.

• Thought Leadership & Proposition Development: Contribute to the evolution of Wavestones data propositions by bringing innovative perspectives on data architecture cloud platforms governance and AI-ready data ecosystems. You will support the development of thought leadership methodologies accelerators and market-facing insights.

• People Development: Help grow Wavestones Data & AI community through coaching mentoring and knowledge sharing. You will support the development of consultants and engineers contribute to internal capability building and promote best practices across the practice.

• Maintain Expertise: Stay at the forefront of developments in data architecture engineering cloud technologies analytics and AI enablement. You will continuously develop your expertise and bring emerging trends technologies and best practices into client engagements and internal initiatives.

Qualifications :

Core Skills & Experience

• Significant experience in consulting client-facing roles or equivalent industry experience delivering data engineering and architecture solutions.
  
• Strong understanding of data engineering principles including pipeline design ETL/ELT ingestion patterns orchestration and integration approaches.
  
• Experience designing or governing modern data architectures (lakehouse warehouse data mesh data fabric).
  
• Hands-on experience with one or more cloud data ecosystems:
  • Azure (Data Factory Synapse Fabric ADLS Databricks)
  • AWS (Glue Redshift EMR)
  • GCP (BigQuery Dataflow)
  • Databricks (Spark/PySpark)
  • Snowflake (SQL Snowpark performance tuning)

Desirable Experience

• Strong SQL and/or Python capability and familiarity with tools such as dbt Git CI/CD or MLOps frameworks.
  
• Understanding of BI/visualisation principles (Power BI/Tableau) and downstream analytics requirements.

Additional Information :

Our commitment:Wavestone values and Positive Way

• Elevateclient satisfactionby impacting high-growth business across US UK and Europe. Shape culture enhance value propositions and foster business development.

• Nurtureemployee growthwith Wavestone horizon career path competitive compensation transparent salary policy tailored training and internal mobility.

• Embrace acollective mindsetwithin a barrier-free collaborative team. Engage in vibrant people culture through regular events meetings and committees.

• Experienceethical responsibilitywith flexible work options strong CSR commitment and a culture promoting work-life balance and time-off.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and bonus scheme.

• Income protection insurance 5% company pension private health and dental cover life insurance company share scheme.

• Additional flexible benefits you can select from such as additional holidays additional pension contributions subsidized gym subscriptions to wellbeing apps Netflix retail vouchers.

• 25 days annual leave.

Travel and Location

• Employees are not required to work in a Wavestone office on a full-time basis but are required to commute to the office /client site whenever necessary. Wavestone UK office is in the heart of the city of London.

• Note: Mandatory 2-3 days per week in Wavestone office / client site during probation.

Diversity and Inclusion

At Wavestone we celebrate diversity and inclusion. We have a strong global CSR agenda and an active Diversity & Inclusion committee with Gender Equality LGBTQ Disability Inclusion Social Mobility and Anti-Racism networks.

If you need flexibility assistance or an adjustment to our recruitment process due to a disability or impairment please reach out to us to discuss this.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time

Experience: years
Vacancy: 1