Data & AI Architect Principal

Essential Skills / Experience

• Strategic architecture leadership - Proven ability to define a data and AI platform vision, with a track record of driving large-scale data transformation programmes.
• Data platform architecture - Deep expertise in modern data platform design, including data lakes, data warehouses, streaming architectures and data mesh patterns.
• AI and ML architecture - Strong understanding of machine learning systems, including feature engineering, model training, serving, monitoring and MLOps platforms.
• Technical depth - Hands-on coding capability in data languages such as Python, SQL and Spark, enabling credibility with engineering teams and active participation in data work.
• Data engineering patterns - Strong understanding of ETL and ELT patterns, data quality frameworks, schema evolution and data lineage tracking.
• Cloud-native data - Experience with cloud data services and platforms across multi-vendor environments, including data warehouses, data lakes and ML platforms.
• Platform engineering mindset - Ability to treat data and AI capabilities as platform products with clear service contracts and a strong developer-experience focus.
• Engineering background - Hands-on experience in data engineering or ML engineering, demonstrated through active contribution to data platforms and AI implementations.
• Enterprise-scale platforms - Extensive experience designing and building data platforms in large enterprise or telecommunications environments, including data ingestion, processing and analytics at scale.
• Production AI and ML - Proven track record of implementing AI and ML capabilities in production, including MLOps practices, model-serving infrastructure and support for data-science team autonomy.
• Product engineering collaboration - Significant experience working closely with product engineering teams to establish data-generation and consumption patterns.
• Modern data stack - Strong background in modern data-stack technologies, including cloud data warehouses, data-processing frameworks and ML platforms.
• Governance and compliance - Experience with data governance, privacy and regulatory compliance, balancing data accessibility with security requirements.
• Technology evaluation - Demonstrated success in evaluating emerging AI technologies and translating technical possibilities into practical implementations.
• Agentic AI - Emerging expertise in agentic AI systems, including LLM-based agents, tool use and reasoning frameworks for autonomous task execution.

Our Package

Tailored benefits make a real difference. That’s why we offer a comprehensive range to support your growth, wellbeing, and everyday life. You can design the package to suit you and your lifestyle. Your core benefits include:

• Company car scheme (or cash alternative)
• 15% on target annual bonus
• Private healthcare for you and your family
• Access to an online private GP 24/7 for you and your immediate family
• Market-leading paid carers leave with up to 2 weeks off
• Equalised maternity, paternity, and adoption leave – 18 weeks’ full pay and 8 weeks’ half pay
• Discounted EE and BT products, including mobile and broadband
• Market leading Pension scheme – 5% from you and 10% from us
• Holiday purchase scheme

You can select additional benefits, including healthcare, dental, gym memberships and more when you’re ready.

At BT International, our purpose is to keep the world connected. As part of BT, we build on almost 180 years of innovation and expertise to deliver secure connectivity and digital services to some of the world’s leading multinational businesses and organisations. Our customers trust us to safeguard their data, drive their digital transformation and keep their businesses running. With colleagues on the ground across the world and supporting customers wherever they need to operate, BT International offers a truly global experience. Whether it’s about providing cloud connectivity, helping organisations collaborate, or enabling innovation in cybersecurity and digital services, you’ll be part of a team that shapes how businesses succeed in a world that is being transformed by AI. If you have the drive and ambition to make an impact on a global stage, BT International is where it happens.