Lead Data Architect - #2082366

£Up to £160,000 GBP

Bonus

Remote WORKING
Type: Permanent

Lead Data Architect - Healthcare (Data & AI)

London | Permanent | Hybrid Working

Our client is a leading digital and technology consultancy delivering large-scale transformation across the UK public sector, with a strong presence in healthcare. The organisation focuses on building data platforms, analytics capabilities, and AI-enabled services that improve operational performance, research, and patient outcomes.

This opportunity sits at the intersection of data architecture, AI, and consulting, playing a ???? role across a growing healthcare portfolio. The position combines pre-sales engagement, solution design, and delivery leadership, working closely with senior stakeholders to shape and deliver complex Data and AI initiatives.

You'll have the opportunity to:

• Shape Data & AI opportunities across complex healthcare environments
• Engage senior stakeholders to define problems and design solution approaches
• Influence bids, proposals, and go-to-market offerings
• Lead the design and assurance of large-scale data and AI solutions
• Contribute to thought leadership in healthcare data and AI
• Mentor and develop consultants within a growing practice

Your Responsibilities

Client Engagement & Pre-Sales

• Lead discovery sessions and exploratory workshops with senior stakeholders
• Shape early-stage opportunities and support qualification activities
• Develop compelling, solution-led proposals and presentations
• Act as a trusted advisor across healthcare organisations

Data Architecture & Delivery

• Lead or assure the design of complex data and AI solutions
• Take ownership of data architecture across delivery programmes
• Define data models, data flows, governance frameworks, and transformation strategies
• Provide technical leadership and assurance across delivery teams
• Advise on platform selection and data operating models

Offerings & Thought Leadership

• Develop reusable accelerators and offerings aligned to healthcare data and AI
• Support go-to-market proposition development
• Contribute to industry engagement and knowledge sharing

Innovation & Leadership

• Track emerging trends in healthcare data and AI
• Apply new tools and approaches to improve solution quality
• Lead and mentor individuals across the Data & AI practice

Key Requirements

• Experience operating as a Data or AI consultant in client-facing environments, including pre-sales and opportunity shaping
• Strong expertise across core data architecture disciplines, including:
• Data modelling
• Data transformation and migration
• Metadata management
• Data governance
• Proven track record delivering or assuring large-scale Data or AI programmes within healthcare or the public sector
• Experience providing technical leadership across complex delivery environments
• Strong stakeholder engagement experience up to Director and C-suite level
• Broad understanding of modern data platforms, cloud ecosystems, analytics, and AI/ML
• Experience across the full sales lifecycle, from shaping through to proposal and close

You will gain exposure with:

• National-scale healthcare data and AI transformation programmes
• Healthcare data standards and interoperability (e.g. FHIR, HL7, SNOMED)
• Secure and research-focused data environments
• Practical applications of AI, including emerging GenAI use cases
• Large-scale public sector delivery and procurement models
• Development of reusable assets, accelerators, and go-to-market offerings

This environment blends strategic consulting, technical architecture, and hands-on programme delivery, creating a genuinely end-to-end role across Data and AI.

Why Join?

• Play a leading role in shaping Data & AI across UK healthcare
• Influence programmes with real-world clinical and operational impact
• Work across strategy, architecture, and delivery
• Build a strong profile in a growing and high-demand sector
• Progress within a high-growth Data & AI capability