Senior Solution Architect (Data & AI Solution Specialist)

Senior Solution Architect (Data & AI Solution Specialist)

Our client, a leading global supplier for IT services, requires an experienced Senior Solution Architect to be based at their client’s office in London.

This is a hybrid role - you can work remotely in the UK and attend the London office 4 days per week.

This is a 12 month temporary contract to start asap

Day rate: Competitive Market rate

The Role:

A senior Solution architecture specialist focused on designing and championing cloud-native Data & AI solutions for Banking, Financial services and Insurance clients. This role translates complex business requirements into winning technical solutions - leveraging modern data & AI platforms and AI/ML services on cloud - and ensures proposals are compelling, feasible, and outcome-oriented. The Data & AI Solution Specialist works closely with Data & AI Practice, Onsite teams and customer teams and client stakeholders to drive deal success and leading delivery teams for execution.

Key Responsibilities

Client Consulting & Opportunity Shaping:

• Lead workshops and consultations with client business and IT stakeholders to uncover needs in areas like data modernisation, advanced analytics, AI/ML, and regulatory compliance.
• Translate business objectives (eg enhanced customer insights, automation of processes, risk analytics) into well-defined Data & AI use cases and solution approaches.

Solution Architecture & Design:

• Develop end-to-end cloud-native data & AI architectures - spanning data ingestion, storage (data lakes/warehouses/data integration, transformation and Data products), processing pipelines, analytics dashboards, and machine learning/AI platforms.
• Ensure designs meet non-functional requirements (scalability, security, resilience, performance) and align with BFSI regulatory and security standards.

Consulting Leadership:

• Own the technical solution in Consulting opportunities and RFP responses.
• Write and present the solution overview, methodology, delivery plan, and value proposition.
• Quantify business benefits (eg faster time-to-insight, cost savings through cloud, improved compliance through better data governance) and contribute to pricing and effort estimates.
• Ensure proposals clearly address client pain points and differentiate TCS’s Data & AI capabilities.

Demonstrations & Proof of Concept (PoC):

• Create and deliver impactful demos, proofs-of-concept, and prototypes using cloud data platforms (Data integration, Transformation and Data products) and AI services to validate solution feasibility and value.
• Tailor demo scenarios to BFSI use cases (like fraud detection, customer 360 analytics, regulatory reporting) to build client confidence.

Collaboration & Handover:

• Work closely with internal teams - sales, delivery managers, domain consultants, and cloud partners - to ensure proposed solutions are deliverable and aligned with available capabilities.
• Assist in a smooth transition from sales to delivery, briefing delivery teams on the designed solution, architecture decisions, and client expectations.
• Provide early-stage support to resolve any design challenges.

Thought Leadership & Best Practices:

• Contribute to the development of re-usable Data & AI accelerators, reference architectures, and best practice guides.
• Mentor junior solution architects and stay up to date with emerging cloud data technologies (eg Data Lakehouse, DataOps/MLOps, generative AI) to continuously enhance proposal quality.

Key Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, and analytics platforms
• Experience with AWS, GCP, Snowflake, Databricks and Azure data services
• Strong background in data integration, reporting, and big data ecosystems
• Very strong understanding and experience of Data products, data mesh and Medallion Architecture implementation
• Design and implement AI and Gen AI solution for data value chain
• Lead enterprise data platform modernization from on-prem to cloud for banking and insurance clients.
• Architect and implement scalable solutions using Snowflake and Databricks on AWS, GCP and Azure platforms.
• Design and implement AI and Gen AI solution for data value chain
• Design data integration pipelines (batch, real-time, big data) and analytics platforms
• Enable enterprise reporting and BI solutions for regulatory and business needs
• Define and implement data governance, quality, metadata, and lineage frameworks
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior business and IT stakeholders
• Mentor teams and contribute to solutioning and pre-sales activities
• Hands on experience with preparation for client presentations, Solution architecture, Proof of concepts development.
• Travel to other office locations for workshops/PI planning workshops (London/Hove/Cardiff based on customer requirements)

Desirable

• Consulting experience in large BFSI transformation programs (Banking, Financial Services & Insurance)
• Multi-cloud or hybrid data architecture exposure
• Cloud or data platform certifications - specially on cloud data technologies

Due to the volume of applications received, unfortunately we cannot respond to everyone

If you do not hear back from us within 7 days of sending your application, please assume that you have not been successful on this occasion.

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• 15+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, and analytics platforms
• Experience with AWS, GCP, Snowflake, Databricks and Azure data services
• Strong background in data integration, reporting, and big data ecosystems
• Very strong understanding and experience of Data products, data mesh and Medallion Architecture implementation
• Design and implement AI and Gen AI solution for data value chain
• Lead enterprise data platform modernization from on-prem to cloud for banking and insurance clients.

This is a hybrid role - you can work remotely in the UK and attend the London office 4 days per week.

This is a 12 month temporary contract to start asap

Day rate: Competitive Market rate

Our client, a leading global supplier for IT services, requires an experienced Senior Solution Architect to be based at their client’s office in London.