Visualisation Solution Architect

Kantar is the world’s leading AI-native marketing data and analytics business and an indispensable brand partner to the world’s top companies. We combine the most meaningful attitudinal and behavioural data with deep expertise and advanced analytics to uncover how people think and act. We help clients understand what has happened and why and how to shape the marketing strategies that shape their future.

About the job

Do you want to be part of driving a technological revolution? We’re looking for a Product Solution Architect to connect business needs with technology to lead and build critical initiatives across a mix of bespoke and SaaS enabled solutions. You'll collaborate across teams, guide global development, and provide technical leadership from start to finish. Working across our global team, we’re looking to you to be a leading figurehead in our strategic vision for our technical platform based architecture.

Role Summary:

We are seeking a Visualisation & Front-End Data Architect to design and deliver scalable, secure, and high-performance user-facing analytics experiences for a data product organisation. This role focuses on embedded analytics, visualisation architecture, API-driven integration, and front-end analytics experiences, working closely with product, engineering, and data platform teams to translate data into actionable user experiences. The architect will define visualisation patterns, embedding standards, UI integration architecture, and governance for analytics across internal and customer-facing products.

Job Goals

• Design and architect embedded analytics solutions using Power BI Embedded and custom visualisation frameworks within web and SaaS applications.

• Define and oversee API integration patterns for visualisation embedding, including REST APIs, authentication flows, and downstream consumption patterns.

• Collaborate with data platform teams to define data contracts and semantic layer interfaces for visualisation and application workloads.

• Architect front-end integration of analytics into React/Angular/TypeScript portals, SaaS platforms, and custom applications.

• Design and guide implementation of custom visual components, including custom Power BI visuals and web-based visualisation frameworks (e.g., D3.js, Plotly).

• Define patterns for interactive analytics, guided workflows, and write-back scenarios within product applications.

• Produce and maintain architectural artefacts including solution diagrams, integration patterns, API specifications, and visualisation reference architectures.

• Collaborate with senior partners to define requirements and coordinate detailed business analysis.

• Identify technical risks, propose Proofs of Concepts (POCs) to capture evidence, and influence final designs.

• Engage with wider Architecture team and tech leads to ensure solutions align with our overall strategy.

• Coordinate with service operations to set up support models and assess designs for alignment with our standards.

Ideal Skills & Capabilities

• Proven experience architecting enterprise Power BI solutions, including semantic models, dashboards, and governed BI environments.

• Deep hands-on experience with Power BI Embedded, embedding models, authentication flows, and multi-tenant architectures.

• Strong proficiency in REST APIs, OAuth/OpenID Connect, and integration architecture patterns for analytics and front-end applications.

• Experience with at least one modern frontend stack (React, Angular, TypeScript, or similar) for embedding analytics and building portals.

• Experience with custom visualisation frameworks (Power BI custom visuals, D3.js, Plotly, web components).

• Solid understanding of modern data platforms (Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL, Lakehouses, etc.) and how they serve analytics and application consumption (without owning backend engineering).

• Strong understanding of analytics security, governance, and compliance, including identity integration, access control, and multi-tenant isolation.

• Experience in implementing a wide range of technology solutions, including data centric solutions across both structured and non-structured data.

• Broad technical knowledge, with expertise in Service Orientated Architecture and microservices.

• Good knowledge of at least one cloud platform, such as Azure.

• Ability to break down complicated problems into manageable phases and explain them to non-technical colleagues.

What’s in it for you

On top of all your normal benefits like holiday, meal cards and life assurance, we also offer:

• Five days of Life Leave per year; for those days when life just…gets in the way.

• Birthday leave – one extra day of holiday taken on the nearest workday to your birthday

• Two days a year to give back and volunteer with an organisation of your choice.

• Enhanced primary and secondary carer leave for however you choose to grow your family.

• The chance to hit the beach on your lunch break (yes, we have somewhere you can store your surfboard!)

Please be aware, the majority of our roles are hybrid, working three days a week in our office.

We’re not able to offer visa sponsorship or help with relocation support for this role. Please make sure you’ve got the right to work in the country where this role is located before applying.

What part of Kantar might I be joining?

You’ll be joining our Insights division, the masters of using data to resolve challenges. They help brands define what they should stand for, how to reinvent and renew their offer, how to better reach audiences, and how to win with consumers. By blending human insights expertise with the latest technology advances, Insights make sure we can deliver innovative information to brands everywhere.

Why join Kantar?

We shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere. By understanding people, we can understand what drives their decisions, actions, and aspirations on a global scale. And if we combine the expertise of our people with the latest AI technology, we can really help brands discover some amazing insights.  

And because we know people, we like to make sure our own people are being looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for everyone is our highest priority and we support our colleagues to work in a way works for them. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of society. Even if you feel like you’re not an exact match, we’d love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.

Privacy and Legal Statement

At Kantar, the diversity of our employees provides a richer environment for our employees and broader depth and breadth of thinking for our clients. Kantar is committed to inclusion and diversity; therefore, we welcome applications from all sections of society and do not discriminate based on age, race, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristics.

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We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes. 

Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights and consulting company. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, Kantar’s 30,000 people help the world’s leading organisations succeed and grow.