- Day rate: £800-£900 (inside IR35)
- Location: London hybrid, about 6 office days a month
- Contract length: approx 6 months
Interested in setting the architecture on a live transformation programme? I’m working with a global commodities data and pricing business that needs an interim Solution Architect to own the Microsoft Azure side of its analytics platform.
Their analysts still forecast prices largely in Excel and on local drives, and the programme moves all of that onto an automated platform, with Azure running the operational services and Snowflake handling data and analytics. You’ll design how data is collected, enhanced and delivered to customers through APIs, dashboards and automated reports.
There’s little solution architecture in the business today, so the blueprint is yours. You’ll be an individual contributor reporting to the Director of Engineering, with no team to manage.
What They’re Looking For:
- Solution architecture: senior or lead, hands-on across front end, back end and APIs
- Microsoft Azure: cloud-native patterns and secure service design
- Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) platforms
- API design: framework redesign, versioning and security
- Identity: authentication, authorisation and entitlements
- Integration patterns and interface contracts with a cloud data platform
- Embedded analytics and data-visualisation foundations
- Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and handover documentation
What You’ll Work With:
- Azure services for market data ingestion, price capture and content authoring
- Customer-facing APIs, web and mobile apps
- Shared identity, entitlement and telemetry services
- A data and technology sharing layer into the analytics platform
- Architecture Review Board and programme steering group
Nice to Haves:
- Snowflake: integration level is plenty, not full data architecture
- AI-enabled automation, eg automated web data collection
- Commodities, financial or market-data domain
- External delivery partners or consultancies
- Sigma, RowZero, Coefficient or similar self-serve analytics tools
Why Join / Projects?
You’ll come in during mobilisation, so the patterns you set become the ones later product builds reuse. You’ll take your designs to the Architecture Review Board yourself and work alongside enterprise architecture, a data architect who owns the Snowflake side, cloud engineering, product teams and external delivery partners. The work covers:
- Redesigning the Analytics API framework for secure reuse across customer channels
- Foundations for embedded visual analytics in the customer dashboard
- The auth and entitlements model, built on shared identity services
- Collection and enhancement services on Azure, handing data on with provenance intact
- Where AI-enabled data collection fits, and which workloads stay on Azure
Happy to talk through the programme in more detail, so apply and I’ll give you a call.
Solution Architect | Azure, API Design, Integration Patterns | Global Commodities Data Business Moving Forecasting Off Excel
