Location: UK - London Job-ID: 218099 Contract type: Standard Business Unit: IT Consulting

What you’ll do

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Data and AI Technical Architect to join our Data & AI Consultancy Practice within Computacenter. In this role, you will work with a range of enterprise customers to lead both pre- and post-sales engagements in complex design, consulting and deployment projects, working individually and within a team of highly skilled architects, consultants, and project managers.

Reporting directly to the Practice Leader, you will join a strong and growing team. Due to continued pipeline growth, we are looking to expand with additional talented individuals.

This position requires the ability to work as part of a team, but also as an individual contributor. You will work in both pre- and post-sales consulting environments, developing strong relationships with clients and coordinating multiple client activities at the same time.

This role will be mainly based from our London office, with UK-wide travel expected for meetings and project engagements.

This customer centric role involves working with our clients and partners to help architect and support implementation efforts of solutions to client use cases, defining solutions for the analysing of large datasets, and optimising performance of both new and incumbent technologies. You will work closely with our technical and sales teams to drive innovation and deliver cutting edge solutions that leverage the full potential of data technologies into our customer base.

• Form and work deep relationships with the Solution Sales community to ensure practice integration at presales stages, working directly with customers to understand requirements and offer ideal solutions.
• Consult and deliver on Design, implement, and optimise data architectures for a variety of applications.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to integrate DR capabilities into our solutions and services, contributing to the overall strategy and service development.
• Stay abreast of the latest in the subject field area.
• Customer facing skills with the ability to propose solutions to improve efficiency and scalability.
• Excellent presentation and documentation skills
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship in areas of expertise, including guiding junior team members and participating in knowledge sharing activities.

What you’ll need

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in data technologies, with a particular focus on Data Protection and Business Continuity.

Required Skills

• 5+ years of experience in technical consulting, specifically in Data technologies.
• Strong client facing, communication and interpersonal skills, capable of conveying complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven Pre Sales and delivery experience in the area of enterprise data and AI technologies.
• Data Governance, Data Health & Data Hygiene.
• Strong theoretical and practical knowledge of Data Protection solutions including Cohesity, Rubrik, Commvault, Veeam and more.
• Detailed knowledge of DSPM products, such as Varonis, Cyera, Securitii.ai.
• Understanding of Modern Data Platforms.
• Edge, Datacenter, and cloud architectural knowledge relating to Data and AI use cases.
• Excellent problem solving skills, with the ability to work independently and in a team environment.
• Data Lake/Lakehouse :

Data Lake/Lakehouse

• Starburst

• Snowflake

• Databricks

• Nvidia OEM partner knowledge and awareness

• Intel / AMD knowledge and awareness

Accreditations

Must be security clearable to a high level.

Technical certifications on any of the following vendors would be beneficial

• Modern Data Platforms: Snowflake; DataBricks; Starburst; Microsoft Fabric
• RDBMS: Microsoft SQL Server; Oracle
• DSPM: Varonis; Cyera
• Datacenter: Nvidia; Dell; HP; IBM
• Storage: NetApp; Pure; Vast; Weka

As an equal opportunities employer, we’re committed to ensuring fair and equal access to opportunities for all. Your application will be considered on its merits, regardless of your age, disability, ethnicity, gender identity, or any other characteristics protected by law. What matters most to us is that you share our vision and values, and bring the experience and skills we’re looking for.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We welcome applications from disabled people and accept applications in alternative formats. We also guarantee to interview applicants who have a disability.