Data & ML Architect

Company: WhiteCrow Research
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Location: Newcastle under Lyme
Job Description:

We are committed to fostering equal opportunities, with diversity, inclusion, and fairness forming a fundamental part of both our client engagements and internal workplace culture.

As a Data & ML Architect, you will be responsible for…

Strategic Leadership:

  • Setting the vision and direction for data and AI architecture for project and client.
  • Influencing enterprise data and AI strategies, driving adoption of best practices in data, ML, and AI architecture.
  • Mentor and develop junior architects and engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and innovation.

Architectural Excellence:

  • Architecting and designing enterprise-scale data platforms and ML/AI solutions for scalability, reliability, and performance.
  • Defining and enforcing data and ML architecture standards, patterns, and governance frameworks for data pipelines, ML workflows, and analytics platforms.
  • Leading solution design for integrating data from diverse sources (streaming, batch, cloud, on-premises) using Azure, AWS, and GCP services.
  • Architect advanced Data Science, ML and AI solutions, including NLP, RAG LLM and Agentic AI systems.
  • Overseeing the implementation of MLOps frameworks, ensuring robust deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management of ML models.
  • Evaluating and recommending emerging AI/ML technologies and platforms, driving innovation in intelligent data products.
  • Providing Ethical AI leadership to ensure intelligent solutions are implemented when required and in safe methods.

Technical Leadership:

  • Overseeing data modelling (e.g. medallion architecture), data governance, and quality frameworks.
  • Implementing technical reviews and driving high standards.
  • Collaborating with engineering and DevOps teams to establish CI/CD and MLOps architectures using Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
  • Guiding the selection and implementation of visualization and analytics tools (Power BI, Tableau, PowerApps).

Stakeholder Engagement:

  • Engaging with senior stakeholders to translate complex business requirements into technical solutions and strategic roadmaps.
  • Ensuring all solutions meet security, compliance, and performance standards, and align with enterprise architecture principles.
  • Applying modern data and AI architecture patterns (Cloud Native, Steaming/batch ingestion, Agentic AI Design) and leveraging platforms such as AI/ML, Big Data, and Data Lakehouse.

What you already have…

  • Minimum 8 years’ experience client facing roles specializing in Data and Architecture roles.
  • Experience in both Agile and Waterfall project environments.
  • Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
  • Security and compliance awareness.
  • Industry certifications (e.g., AWS Solution Architect, Azure Data Engineer, GCP Data Engineer).
  • Experience mentoring or managing technical teams.

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Posted: May 22nd, 2026