About the Role

Irwin Mitchell is investing significantly in its data and analytics capability and is looking for an experienced Solutions Architect to play a pivotal role in shaping our data architecture.

This role will initially focus on the architectural design and evolution of our Lakehouse platform, before broadening into how data services, APIs, and emerging AI capabilities sit on top of that foundation. It’s a genuinely strategic opportunity to help move the organisation beyond reporting, enabling automation, insight‑led workflows, and AI‑driven decision‑making across the business.

You’ll operate as a design authority rather than a hands‑on developer, working closely with Architecture, Data Engineering, Analytics, Insight, and senior stakeholders across the firm.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the solution and architectural design of the firm’s Lakehouse platform, ensuring it supports core management systems and other large‑scale enterprise platforms
• Design how data is exposed and consumed through API‑led architectures, enabling scalable data sharing and automation across the business
• Shape the future data ecosystem, integrating new internal and external data sources into the Lakehouse
• Work with data analytics, engineering, and insight teams to ensure architecture supports advanced analytics, Power BI, and operational use cases
• Define how data outputs embed into downstream systems and workflows (e.g. Microsoft Dynamics, 3E, SuccessFactors)
• Act as a key advisor to system owners across the business, helping them access and leverage data safely and effectively
• Partner with Procurement to ensure any new technology aligns with the Lakehouse and wider architectural standards
• Contribute to future‑state thinking around AI‑enabled solutions, including automation, recommendations, and insight‑driven workflows
• Produce high‑quality architecture artefacts (logical, physical, integration designs) and present them clearly to technical and non‑technical stakeholders

This is a design‑led Solutions Architect role — you’ll guide and assure solutions rather than write production code.

The Technology Environment

• Lakehouse architecture (Databricks)
• Azure‑based data platform
• API‑led integration and API Management
• Power BI built directly on the Lakehouse
• Strong alignment with the Microsoft ecosystem (Dynamics, Azure DevOps, enterprise platforms)

What We’re Looking For

Essential Experience

• Proven experience in a Solutions Architect role, ideally within large, complex organisations
• Strong understanding of modern data architectures, including:
  • Data pipelines and data at scale
  • API‑based data integration
  • Lakehouse concepts and platforms (e.g. Databricks)
• Experience designing solutions within regulated environments
• Comfortable working across business and technology teams, influencing senior stakeholders
• Experience producing clear architectural designs and governance artefacts

Desirable Experience

• Exposure to AI, machine learning or automation use cases, such as recommendation engines, next‑best‑action, or GenAI
• Experience within professional services or similarly complex, knowledge‑led organisations

Team & Stakeholders

You’ll join a well‑established architecture community, working alongside:

• Architecture Team including Solutions and Enterprise Architects, all with a strong cloud focus
• Data Analytics, Data Engineering, and Insight leaders
• System owners, senior business stakeholders, and Procurement teams