Solution Architect (Data and AI Platform)
Are you passionate about shaping the future of enterprise data platforms and enabling innovative, AI-powered solutions at scale?
Do you enjoy defining architecture strategies that deliver secure, governed, and high-performing data platforms that create real business impact?
About our Team
The TIO Architecture Team is the design and architecture function of Elsevier's Technology Infrastructure and Operations organization and is responsible for architectural design and consultancy across a multitude of Technology areas. This includes our extensive cloud-based technology footprint, the user experience across the company (including our large developer community), as well as the central tooling and development platforms that enable the company to rapidly advance. The team is particularly strategically focussed on today's business need on various aspects of AI (both AI developer tooling and end user GenAI technologies).
About the Role
This Solution Architect role is an exciting opportunity to lead the design and evolution of Elsevier’s Operational Data Platform. You will work alongside an embedded engineering team to architect Snowflake-based data warehouse solutions and related systems, develop AI-enabled capabilities, and work with engineering, data, and business stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, and compliant data platform capabilities that support strategic business outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture and design of Snowflake-based data warehouse solutions and dependent systems
- Develop next-generation platform capabilities, including real-time ingestion, AI-driven insights and API-led integration
- Design data structures and interfaces that enable natural-language querying and GenAI use cases
- Support the adoption of modern data-engineering methods and best-in-class tooling
- Integrate data toolchains with internal systems using API-driven approaches, including MCP
- Establish secure, standardised best practices across data warehousing, integration and AI tooling
- Define inter-system data flows, architectural roadmaps and governance standards
- Ensure solutions comply with Elsevier and RELX policies and standards
- Problem-solve, involving leading teams in identifying, researching, and coordinating the resources necessary to effectively troubleshoot/diagnose complex system issues
- Drive technical direction and architecture evolution via reviews, roadmaps and on-floor leadership
Requirements
- Significant experience in software development, solution architecture or data-platform architecture
- Strong experience designing Snowflake data warehouse solutions and working across the Snowflake ecosystem
- Understanding of operational technology data, technology assets, dependencies, relationships and end-to-end flows within a large enterprise
- Solution architecture across Snowflake, DBT and SqlDBM, including data modelling and schema design
- AWS architecture, including EC2, RDS, databases, SQS, Kinesis, S3 and Lambda, plus familiarity with Azure
- Experience with real-time ingestion, streaming and processing technologies, API design, graph databases, and AI-enabled solutions including MCP
- Familiarity with Tableau, GitHub, Jira, CI/CD and Agile delivery
- Strong knowledge of architectural governance, requirements gathering and end-to-end data-flow design
Non-Technical requirements:
- Strong organisational, project planning and time management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, complex projects and change initiatives across diverse teams.
- Excellent problem-solving abilities, including identifying issues, assessing risks, developing solutions and coordinating resources to drive successful outcomes.
- Excellent communication, presentation and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, concise messaging for audiences ranging from engineers to senior executives.
Work in a Way That Works for You
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance, and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.
Working Pattern
Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.
About the Business
A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world's grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.
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Skills Required
- Significant experience in software development, solution architecture, or data-platform architecture
- Strong experience designing Snowflake data warehouse solutions and working across the Snowflake ecosystem
- Understanding of operational technology data, technology assets, dependencies, relationships, and end-to-end enterprise flows
- Solution architecture experience across Snowflake, dbt, and SqlDBM, including data modeling and schema design
- AWS architecture experience with EC2, RDS, databases, SQS, Kinesis, S3, and Lambda
- Familiarity with Azure
- Experience with real-time ingestion, streaming and processing technologies, API design, graph databases, and AI-enabled solutions including MCP
- Familiarity with Tableau, GitHub, Jira, CI/CD, and Agile delivery
- Strong knowledge of architectural governance, requirements gathering, and end-to-end data-flow design
- Strong organizational, project planning, and time management skills
- Excellent problem-solving abilities, including risk assessment, solution development, and resource coordination
- Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills
RELX Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about RELX and has not been reviewed or approved by RELX.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as a meaningful part of total rewards through a 401(k) plan with matching contributions, alongside other financial protections such as life and disability coverage. Tuition reimbursement and share purchase access further broaden the financial value of the package beyond base salary.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave and time off breadth appears strong, with generous vacation allowances, mental health days, and options like sabbaticals and tiered PTO by tenure. Parental and caregiving leaves are described in detail, reinforcing time-away benefits as a standout component of the overall package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle benefits are supported by offerings such as mental health support (e.g., app access), EAP resources, gym-related perks, and wellness incentives. Flexible working hours and related work-life supports add to the perceived day-to-day value of benefits.
RELX Insights
What We Do
RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics for professional and business customers across industries. We help scientists make new discoveries, doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients and lawyers win cases. We prevent online fraud and money laundering, and help insurance companies evaluate and predict risk. Our events enable customers to learn about markets, source products and complete transactions. In short, we enable our customers to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive. We do this by leveraging a deep understanding of our customers to create innovative solutions which combine content and data with analytics and technology in global platforms. RELX serves customers in more than 180 countries and has offices in about 40 countries. It employs approximately 30,000 people of whom almost half are in North America. We operate in four major market segments: Scientific, Technical & Medical; Risk & Business Analytics; Legal; and Exhibitions.
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