Solution Architect

Salary
: £80,000 - £110,000 (depending on experience)

Location
:
Remote – must be based within the UK. Occasional visits to see customers and the team.

Interview process:Two rounds. 1:

Get to know you chat with one of Talent Team;2:

Technical competency with two of the technical team; 3:
Final Interview with our Chief Architect

Our Values:Advancing, Come as you are, Zero burnout, We all level up together and Transparency

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Advancing Analytics are a market leader in delivering pioneering analytical solutions for customers all over the world. To thrive in today's market, businesses need to implement AI built on a solid, reliable Data Platform, and we are looking for you to help us build it!

The Solution Architect is a sales-focused role and you will own the technical win across our pipeline. You will work alongside Sales, Senior Leadership, and Delivery Leads to turn opportunities into signed work.

You will qualify opportunities, shape the solution, build the demo, and present it to the client. As the trusted Databricks expert in the room, you will guide clients from the first technical conversation to a signed SoW.

You will work closely with clients to understand their challenges, shape the right solutions, and help them make the most of modern data and AI technologies.

You will play a key role in our most strategic engagements, supporting complex programmes and influencing how we leverage Agentic AI, automation, data platforms, and self-serve analytics to drive client outcomes.

• Design and document end-to-end data and AI solutions using Azure, Databricks, and related services.
• Translate business and technical requirements into clear architecture designs that delivery teams can build.
• Apply our existing standards, patterns, and reference architectures.
• Identify technical risks early, own them on the project risk register and be accountable for their mitigation and resolution.
• Produce design artefacts and present them at architectural forums, from engineering teams through to senior executives.

• Shape and guide the design of intelligent data platform projects using Lakehouse architectures, making data available for reporting, AI, and analytics.

• Get involved early in client conversations to qualify opportunities and recommend the right approach.
• Run structured discovery workshops with data, analytics, and platform teams. Capture requirements, current state, workloads, governance constraints, and target outcomes.
• Shape the solution with subject matter experts across the business. Make designs scalable, supportable, cost-effective, and aligned with our standards.
• Own the technical content of RFP and RFI responses, proposals, architecture diagrams, and Statements of Work.
• Own the technical view on scope, effort, and delivery risk for opportunities.
• Run technical pitches and demos. Handle deep technical and business-value questions.
• Work with Databricks field teams on joint pursuits and co-selling.

• Build strong relationships with clients and become a trusted technical advisor.
• Take complex technical concepts and translate them into plain language and clear business outcomes for senior business leaders, technology leads, and internal sales teams.
• Hand each won opportunity to delivery with a clear, complete design. Walk the Solution Architect through scope, assumptions, risks, and estimates.

• Proven experience in technical pre-sales, designing cloud data architectures, with hands‑on consulting on Azure and Databricks.
• Working knowledge of data…