Analytics Solutions Architect

What You’ll do

Your key accountabilities will include

• Lead the design of end-to-end analytics and AI solutions across Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Power Platform and Copilot, guiding delivery teams from architecture through to production and ensuring solutions are scalable, secure and business aligned.

• Partner with data and analytics engineering teams to design AI-ready data architectures, including data structures, metric layers, semantic models and ontologies, while developing and evaluating proof of concepts to validate emerging technologies, architectural patterns and AI capabilities.

• Define and champion enterprise-wide standards, governance and best practices for analytics and AI platforms, creating reusable patterns, blueprints and playbooks that improve quality, consistency and delivery speed across federated teams.

• Drive platform strategy and optimisation across Power BI, Databricks, Copilot Studio, Power Platform and AI/BI workloads, shaping roadmaps and contributing to governance, monitoring, performance and cost management frameworks in partnership with platform engineering teams.

• Build organisational capability in analytics and AI through mentoring, training and hands-on solution leadership, supporting adoption of emerging technologies, while helping modernise the analytics estate through ongoing maintenance, re-platforming and decommissioning of legacy platforms.

Who you are

Your skills and experience will include

• An experienced Analytics Solutions Architect with a proven track record of designing and delivering enterprise-scale analytics and AI solutions, in a Microsoft-centric environment, using Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, Power Platform and Copilot Studio.

• Ability to be strategic and hands-on. Can translate complex business challenges into scalable, secure and maintainable solution architectures, while remaining comfortable working close to delivery teams.

• An influential communicator and collaborator with the ability to engage senior stakeholders, build trusted relationships and communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.