Data Solution Designer

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Job Title: Data Solution Designer

Job Type: Permanent

Location: Norwich

Hours: 40 hours per week – Full time

Are you looking to apply your expertise in data engineering and analytics to design scalable and enterprise‑grade data solutions?

We have an exciting opportunity for you – Data Solution Designer!

Careers at TCS: It means more

TCS is a purpose-led transformation company, built on belief. We do not just help businesses to transform through technology. We support them in making a meaningful difference to the people and communities they serve - our clients include some of the biggest brands in the UK and worldwide. For you, it means more to make an impact that matters, through challenging projects which demand ambitious innovation and thought leadership.

• Build scalable data platforms and advanced analytics solutions.
• Work within a collaborative and forward‑thinking data engineering environment.
• Support leading organisations as they transform their data and analytics capabilities.

The Role

As a Data Solution Designer, you will design and deliver end‑to‑end data science and advanced analytics solutions that translate complex business challenges into scalable, secure, and high‑performance data products. You will work across business, data engineering, and architecture teams to ensure solutions are production‑ready and aligned to enterprise standards.

Key responsibilities

• Designing end‑to‑end data science and analytics solutions, including data ingestion, feature engineering, model development, deployment, and monitoring.
• Defining logical and physical architectures for analytics platforms, machine learning pipelines, and AI products.
• Ensuring solutions are scalable, reusable, secure, and cost‑effective.
• Selecting appropriate machine learning and AI techniques such as regression, classification, NLP, forecasting, and clustering.
• Defining data models, schemas, data quality rules, and ETL or ELT pipelines in collaboration with data engineering teams.
• Designing feature stores, training datasets, and inference pipelines.
• Providing guidance on model selection, evaluation strategies, experiment tracking, and reproducibility.
• Designing MLOps frameworks including CI/CD pipelines, model versioning, governance, and monitoring for drift and performance.
• Defining standards for programming frameworks, deployment models, and cloud or on‑premise architectures.
• Ensuring compliance with data governance, security, regulatory, and risk management standards.
• Producing high‑level architecture diagrams, low‑level design documents, and non‑functional requirement specifications.
• Establishing best practices and reusable design patterns across data and AI solutions.

Your Profile

Essential skills/knowledge/experience

• Background in data science, machine learning, and advanced analytics solutions.
• Proficiency in Python, including libraries such as NumPy, Pandas, and scikit‑learn.
• Working knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases.
• Familiarity with big data frameworks such as Spark, Hive, or Databricks.
• Understanding of MLOps practices, including model lifecycle management and CI/CD pipelines.
• Exposure to containerisation and deployment technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes.
• Ability to design and deploy solutions on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Familiarity with tools such as MLflow, Azure ML, SageMaker, or Vertex AI.
• Solid analytical and problem‑solving capabilities.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to business stakeholders.
• Comfortable working within Agile or Scrum environments.
• Effective stakeholder engagement and collaboration skills.

Desirable skills/knowledge/experience

• Experience within the BFSI domain, including areas such as risk, fraud, AML, or customer analytics.
• Experience with regulatory data modelling and explainable AI approaches.
• Exposure to generative AI, large language models, or vector databases.
• Certifications in cloud or enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF.

Rewards & Benefits

TCS is consistently voted a Top Employer in the UK and globally. Our competitive salary packages feature pension, health care, life assurance, laptop, phone, access to extensive training resources and discounts within the larger Tata network.

We offer health & wellness initiatives and sports events; we are the proud sponsor of the London Marathon.

Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing

Tata Consultancy Services UK&I is committed to meeting the accessibility needs of all individuals in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010 and the UK Human Rights Act 1998.

We welcome and embrace diversity in race, nationality, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender identity, age, physical ability, gender reassignment, sexual orientation. We are a disability inclusive employer and encourage disabled people to apply for this role.

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Next Steps

Application Process

1. Online application: You can apply directly through LinkedIn/ by uploading your CV. In case you wish to submit your application via another format like audio/video, please, contact - ***email_hidden***
2. Skill-Based discussion: This will be a level 1 interview with the project team, it can be via video or in-person. Details will be confirmed by your recruiter.
3. Managerial discussion: This discussion will focus on behavioural aspects and person-organisation fit.
4. HR Discussion: This will be with one of the members of the HR team and will cover your career journey, aspirations for growth, compensation and any other questions you may have.

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