Enterprise Data Architect

Role Overview

• Do you want to boost your career and collaborate with expert, talented colleagues to solve and deliver against our clients' most important challenges? We are growing and are looking for people to join our team.
• You'll be part of an entrepreneurial, high-growth environment of 300.000 employees.
• Our dynamic organization allows you to work across functional business pillars, contributing your ideas, experiences, diverse thinking, and a strong mindset.
• Enterprise AI is forcing organisations to rethink their data estates.
• Data platforms designed mainly for reporting are often not enough for GenAI, semantic search, agentic workflows and AI-enabled decision-making.
• Clients now need data that is trusted, governed, contextualised and consumable by both people and intelligent systems.
• We are looking for client-facing Enterprise Data Architects to join our growing Enterprise AI practice.
• You will help clients transform fragmented data estates into AI-ready foundations, advising on architecture decisions across cloud data platforms, lakehouse and warehouse patterns, data products, semantic layers, metadata, lineage, governance, knowledge graphs and GenAI retrieval patterns.
• This is a consulting role, not a purely internal architecture role.
• You will diagnose ambiguous client problems, shape options, make trade-offs explicit, and translate complex data architecture issues into clear decisions for both technical teams and executive stakeholders.
• You will work in cross-functional teams alongside product owners, data scientists, ML and GenAI engineers, data engineers, business analysts and client stakeholders.
• Typical outputs may include target-state architectures, maturity assessments, platform option appraisals, data product designs, governance models, lineage maps, ontology and semantic models, integration patterns, GenAI data-readiness assessments and implementation roadmaps.
• We are hiring across several levels.
• At earlier levels, we expect strong architecture delivery experience and hands-on platform understanding.
• At senior levels, we expect the ability to shape enterprise data strategy, influence senior stakeholders, lead complex architecture decisions and guide multi-disciplinary delivery teams.
• We do not expect every candidate to be a specialist in every aspect of AI-ready data architecture.
• We are looking for architects with strong core data architecture experience and credible depth in some of the areas that matter for AI-enabled data estates, such as governance, semantic modelling, lakehouse architecture, data products, metadata management, knowledge graphs, RAG or enterprise data strategy.

Requirements

• 5–10+ years, depending on level, in data architecture, enterprise architecture, solution architecture or senior data engineering roles.
• Demonstrable experience designing modern data architectures for analytics, AI, ML or GenAI consumption.
• Strong understanding of enterprise data architecture patterns, including cloud data platforms, lakehouses, warehouses, data integration, data modelling and metadata management.
• Experience contributing to or leading data governance initiatives, including catalogues, lineage, ownership, stewardship, data quality and metadata management.
• Practical understanding of semantic layers, ontologies or knowledge graph concepts, with hands-on experience in at least one of these areas.
• Deep experience with at least one major cloud data platform, such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, and familiarity with leading lakehouse or warehouse technologies.
• Understanding of how data architecture decisions affect AI and GenAI outcomes, including data quality, provenance, context, retrieval, security, privacy and semantic consistency.
• Familiarity with GenAI data patterns such as retrieval-augmented generation, vector search, embedding pipelines, chunking strategies or enterprise search.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to present complex technical trade-offs clearly to non-technical sponsors and senior executives.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; quantitative, technical or analytical disciplines are an advantage.
• Willingness to travel, up to around 60% depending on project requirements, across the UK and internationally.

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud

Benefits

• About your team
• About Enterprise AI
• Our Enterprise AI practice supports large global organisations to find and deliver business value from data and AI. We work within the broader Infosys ecosystem, partnering with deep industry and domain experts to identify transformational opportunities and help clients bridge from strategy through to implementation. We collaborate closely with our global delivery organisation to turn ideas into scalable solutions. Examples of our work include developing AI transformation roadmaps, setting up AI Centres of Excellence, data strategy and readiness assessments, automating complex workflows with multi-agent systems and intelligent document processing with generative AI. We always bring a human-centred and value-led approach to technology transformation.
• About Infosys Consulting
• Be part of a globally renowned management consulting firm on the front-line of industry disruption and at the cutting edge of technology. We work with market leading brands across sectors. Our culture is inclusive and entrepreneurial. Being a mid-size consultancy within the scale of Infosys gives us the global reach to partner with our clients throughout their transformation journey.
• Our core values, IC-LIFE, form a common code that helps us move forward. IC-LIFE stands for Inclusion, Equity and Diversity, Client, Leadership, Integrity, Fairness, and Excellence. To learn more about Infosys Consulting and our values, please visit our careers page.
• Within Europe, we are recognized as one of the UK’s top firms by the Financial Times and Forbes due to our client innovations, our cultural diversity and dedicated training and career paths. Infosys is on the Germany’s top employers list for 2023. Management Consulting Magazine named us on their list of Best Firms to Work for. Furthermore, Infosys has been recognized by the Top Employers Institute, a global certification company, for its exceptional standards in employee conditions across Europe for five years in a row.
• We offer industry-leading compensation and benefits, along with top training and development opportunities so that you can grow your career and achieve your personal ambitions. Curious to learn more? We’d love to hear from you.... Apply today!