This hybrid role offers a great balance of home and office working. You’ll join your colleagues in your local office at least two days a week.
As the UK’s largest independent full fibre network and wholesale platform of choice, we’re busy setting new standards for what digital infrastructure can and should be.
Our network is greener, more reliable and designed for the future. The products we run over it lead the way on speed, value and service - helping businesses to innovate, communities to thrive, and people to live more connected digital lives.
At CityFibre, you’ll be part of something bigger, helping to build a better-connected Britain, together.
Joining us as a Data Solution Architect
You'll play a key role in designing and delivering modern enterprise data, analytics and Agentic BI solutions, helping to shape CityFibre's AI-powered data platforms and support business transformation through intelligent, trusted and scalable data products.
You’ll receive a competitive salary and a performance related bonus.
This is some of what you can expect to be doing:
- Lead the solution architecture and design of enterprise data platforms, data lakes, data warehouses and AI-enabled analytics solutions
- Design data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, ingestion frameworks and integration patterns across enterprise systems
- Define and implement BI and Agentic BI architectures using Snowflake Cortex, Snowpark, AWS Bedrock, SageMaker and LLM technologies
- Develop architecture patterns for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), vector search, semantic layers, knowledge graphs and enterprise AI assistants
- Establish governance, security, data quality and Responsible AI standards across data and AI solutions while providing technical leadership to delivery teams
- Create architecture roadmaps, reference architectures and technology standards while identifying opportunities to automate business processes through AI Agents and emerging technologies
What you’ll bring to the role
You'll be an experienced Data Solution Architect with a strong background in enterprise data architecture, cloud platforms, Business Intelligence and AI-enabled data solutions, combined with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into business value.
You’ll also have:
- Extensive experience designing enterprise data platforms, data warehouses, data lakes, data mesh or lakehouse architectures
- Hands-on experience with Snowflake, AWS data services, Python, Spark and data engineering frameworks
- Strong understanding of Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Agentic AI, intelligent automation and AI-powered analytics solutions
- Experience implementing AI technologies such as Snowflake Cortex AI, Snowpark, AWS Bedrock, SageMaker, vector search and semantic search architectures
- Experience delivering Business Intelligence platforms, self-service analytics solutions and working knowledge of DataOps, MLOps and LLMOps practices
- Demonstrable experience working in telecommunications and using industry best practice frameworks such as TM Forum, TOGAF, ITIL, BPMN and UML
Life at CityFibre
Everyone deserves to feel heard, valued and truly included. Working alongside our Employee Communities, we’re committed to creating a workplace where people feel a genuine sense of belonging and pride in what they do. That’s why we’re proud to be a Times Top 50 Employer for Gender Equality, endorsed by WORK180, a Disability Confident Leader, a Care Leaver Friendly Employer, and a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award.
We’ll support you to thrive inside and outside of work, with opportunities to grow your career and a flexible benefits package that adapts to your life – including generous annual leave (with an extra day off on your birthday), private medical insurance, health cash plans and family‑friendly policies.
Find out more about our culture, communities and benefits on our careers site.
We want to create a sense of belonging for everyone. We celebrate our differences and work to ensure everyone has the best chance to succeed, starting with our recruitment process. No matter your background, family or carer status, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, gender, or gender identity, we welcome your application. If you need any support or reasonable adjustments throughout the application process, please email us at careers@cityfibre.com. We want to help!