Solutions Architect in Basingstoke, Hampshire

Our client is a leading digital consultancy delivering complex, mission‐critical transformation programmes, and has featured in The Times' Top 100 Companies to Work For for seven years running.

As a Palantir Solution Architect, you will join a high‐performing data and engineering capability focused on designing and delivering modern, scalable data platforms. This role positions you at the forefront of architecting advanced, Palantir‐enabled solutions that unify data, logic, and operational workflows — helping organisations unlock real‐time insights and make high‐quality, data‐driven decisions.

You’ll have the opportunity to:

• Architect and deliver enterprise‐scale data platforms leveraging Palantir's ecosystem and capabilities
• Shape functional and non‐functional designs across large, interconnected systems
• Lead the production of robust, secure, and maintainable data solutions
• Work closely with customer architects to influence solution direction and ensure high‐quality design outcomes
• Drive technical decision‐making and balance trade‐offs in complex environments
• Contribute to architectural standards, technical policy, and internal best practices
• Support pre‐sales activities, including solution shaping, scoping, and technical roadmapping
• Mentor, develop, and support engineering teams, contributing to a strong data community
• Play a key role in building capability, sharing knowledge, and elevating delivery quality

Your Responsibilities:

As a Palantir Solution Architect, you will:

• Own the architecture of Palantir‐enabled data solutions, ensuring scalability, resilience, and long‐term maintainability
• Collaborate with operations and infrastructure teams to productionise cloud‐native, high‐availability platforms
• Provide architectural oversight throughout the delivery lifecycle, ensuring alignment with best practice
• Partner with stakeholders to challenge assumptions, guide technical direction, and influence design outcomes
• Establish architectural patterns, governance practices, and frameworks that scale across teams
• Shape technical proposals, feasibility assessments, and solution design artefacts in pre‐sales engagements
• Coach team members, support performance, and foster a culture of continuous learning
• Make significant contributions to the wider data capability and community of practice

Key Requirements:

As a Palantir Solution Architect, you should have:

• Demonstrable experience leading the architecture of at least one significant Palantir‐focused project, ideally involving Foundry or similar — with the ability to articulate design decisions, technical challenges, and impactful outcomes
• Experience leading multiple delivery teams as the architect across a complex system‐of‐systems landscape
• Proven background designing, and building modern, data‐intensive applications
• Broad expertise across the data ecosystem — ingestion, transformation, storage, modelling, presentation, and analytics
• Strong strategic design capabilities, including problem framing, roadmap definition, risk management, and architecture realisation
• Confidence with both traditional and contemporary data‐warehousing approaches
• Experience deploying data‐processing platforms on AWS, Azure, GCP, Databricks, or equivalent
• Hands‐on proficiency in Java, Scala, or Python, with the ability to support teams directly when needed
• Experience mentoring, coaching, and developing engineers or architects within a growing capability

You will gain exposure with:

Working as a Palantir Solution Architect gives you the opportunity to work across:

• Palantir‐enabled architectures integrating operational workflows and analytical insights
• High‐impact, enterprise‐scale data transformation programmes across multiple sectors
• Modern integration patterns including event streaming, messaging, CDC, and data virtualisation
• Broader architectural domains such as data governance, lineage, MDM, metadata management, and data quality
• Cloud‐native engineering practices, robust platform engineering, and large‐scale solution delivery

You’ll be part of a collaborative, ambitious technical community where your expertise directly shapes outcomes for high‐profile transformation programmes.

Why Join?:

• Work at the forefront of large‐scale data transformation using modern Palantir approaches
• Shape architectural strategy and influence technical direction across complex, high‐value programmes
• Develop your career as a Palantir Solution Architect in a supportive, people‐first culture
• Be part of a diverse and inclusive environment that values creativity, autonomy, and professional growth
• Access a comprehensive benefits package including: Contributory pension, 25 days' holiday plus public holidays, life assurance and critical illness cover, flexible benefits such as private health, dental, additional holidays, wellbeing contributions, charity donations, and more

Interested? Apply Now!