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# ClickHouse Solutions Architect - Contract

- **Company:** Xpertise Recruitment
- **Location:** UK (Remote available)
- **Salary:** £260,000.0
- **Contract:** Temporary to permanent
- **Skills:** Continuous Integration, Data Architecture, Shard (Database Architecture), Query Optimization, Performance Testing, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Vertica
- **Published:** August 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerboard.com/pt/en/find-jobs-in-United-Kingdom/-BAB7D4BF3E6F0F1E11/

## About the Role

This is not simply a Data Architect role where ClickHouse is one technology amongst many. We need someone with deep, hands-on experience designing and operating ClickHouse at significant production scale.

Ideally you will have experience across:

 * Distributed ClickHouse architecture, including cluster topology, sharding and replication
 * MergeTree engines, partitioning, primary/sort keys, projections and materialized views
 * High-throughput streaming ingestion, ideally using Kafka and/or ClickPipes
 * Query optimisation and performance benchmarking
 * Large-scale observability or time-series workloads
 * OpenTelemetry, particularly logs, metrics and traces
 * Multi-tenancy, workload isolation, quotas and resource management
 * Object storage and hot/cold data tiering
 * Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD
 * Sizing, capacity planning and cost modelling

You should be comfortable operating as both an architect and hands-on technical authority - working directly with client stakeholders, making architectural decisions, building a reference environment and validating the design through real-world performance testing.

## Description

We are looking for an experienced ClickHouse Solutions Architect to support the design and implementation of a greenfield, enterprise-scale observability platform for a global banking client.

This is a genuine greenfield engagement with significant scale and complexity. You will take a leading role in defining the ClickHouse architecture from first principles, before helping prove and implement the solution.

The environment

The platform will provide a central repository for logs, metrics and traces, with requirements including:

 * Sustained ingestion of approximately 3 million events per second
 * Around 1,000 concurrent users and hundreds of Real Time dashboards
 * Hundreds of application tenants requiring workload isolation, throttling and quotas
 * OpenTelemetry-native architecture
 * High-volume hot storage with longer-term object storage tiering
 * Enterprise-grade resilience, security, DR and governance


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