Richard Stewart

Lead Solutions Architect, Global Solutions at LiveRamp

London Area, United Kingdom

About

Experienced Solutions Architect specialising in AI-powered marketing technology, data collaboration, identity resolution, clean rooms, retail media, and measurement solutions across EMEA, LATAM, MENA, and APAC. Partnering with enterprise customers to design and deliver scalable, privacy-first data and AI solutions that drive activation, interoperability, measurement, and business growth. Strong background in solution architecture, technical pre-sales, cloud data platforms, operational leadership, and executive stakeholder engagement, with experience delivering complex global projects and supporting high-performing international teams. Specialties: Solutions Architecture, Solutions Engineering, AI & Data Collaboration, Identity Resolution, Clean Rooms, Retail Media, Enterprise Data Platforms, Cloud Architecture, Technical Pre-Sales, Cross-Market Delivery Technical Skills: AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Snowflake, Databricks, SQL, ETL, PL/SQL, Linux/Unix Shell Scripting, Data Warehousing, Cloud Data Platforms

Experience

  • LiveRamp (8 yrs 4 mos)
    • Lead Solutions Architect
      Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos

      Lead solution architecture for enterprise customers across global markets, driving adoption of LiveRamp’s data collaboration, identity, clean room, and measurement platforms. • Design end-to-end solutions for complex, multi-market engagements, including first-party data activation, retail media, clean rooms, and advanced measurement • Guide customers on LiveRamp integrations with cloud and data platforms, providing senior-level advice on architecture, security, privacy, and data governance (AWS, GCP, Snowflake, Databricks) • Partner with sales, product, and engineering to translate business objectives into scalable, compliant solutions • Lead executive and security conversations with customer data, technology, and privacy teams • Deliver demos, proofs of value, and data discovery workshops to accelerate adoption

    • Expert Solutions Architect
      Jul 2023 - Jun 2025 · 2 yrs

      Provided solution architecture and technical support for enterprise customers in UK and LATAM markets helping them adopt LiveRamp’s data collaboration, identity, clean room, and measurement platforms. • Delivered end-to-end solutions for multi-market engagements, including first-party data activation, retail media, clean rooms, and measurement • Supported customers in understanding LiveRamp integrations with cloud and data platforms (AWS, GCP, Snowflake, Databricks) • Worked closely with sales, product, and engineering to ensure solutions met business and compliance requirements • Participated in executive and security discussions with customer data, technology, and privacy teams • Conducted demos, proofs of value, and data discovery workshops to support adoption

    • Product Expert, EU Identity
      Nov 2020 - Jul 2023 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Acxiom ()
    • European Data Products Technical Team Manager
      Apr 2007 - Mar 2018 · 11 yrs

      Lead the European data warehouse build services solutions that are designed and developed within the team. Direct Reports including other team leads in both the UK and Poland locations. Support and Delivery of UK, French and Poland Data services for users including - Data warehousing development and maintenance - ETL data engineering and support - Customer Data Integration implementation and support - Development and maintenance for datamart building - Consultation with client account teams to provide data to subscription based clients - Data Quality Best practises Role and Responsibilities of Team - Integrate Software and Data to create solutions to business problems defined by specific business requirements typically using a standardised delivery methodology - Combine technical and data processing knowledge to solve moderately complex marketing and data warehousing problems on very large volumes of data - Develop automation to tie components together, develop custom application code to accommodate specific business requirements or collaborate with others to add extensions - Productivity Improvements to maximize data profitability and optimise usage of products for stakeholders - Effective management of both Product implementation and on-going maintenance resource and hardware budgets. Teaming Responsibilities - Team Vision, Scope, Objectives - Personal Development - Performance Management - Career Development

    • UK Data Products and Metrics Team Manager
      Apr 2006 - Mar 2007 · 1 yr

      Responsible for UK Product Build implementation, Design, Metric Reporting and Data QA. Team lead for 7 direct reports based in UK and Poland. Learnt fundamental skills in how to manage conflict and leverage wider team to collaborate and solve complex business problems

    • Lead Developer - Data Operations
      Oct 2004 - Mar 2006 · 1 yr 6 mos

      Responsible for designing / developing and supporting production data services for UK data business. Working with large base of analysts, product owners and users of services I learnt first hand how to successfully capture business requirements and deliver to them.

  • Production Programmer - Data Operations at Acxiom
    Oct 2000 - Apr 2004 · 3 yrs 7 mos

    Responsible for:- - Database selections and Reporting - Telephone database updates / extraction - Maintain Data Product Delivery Reports - General customer database – extraction and transformation Technical Languages - Linux / Unix Tru64 - Perl - SQL - Selcopy

  • Production Programmer at Harte-Hanks, Inc.
    Mar 1998 - Sep 2000 · 2 yrs 7 mos

    Responsible for:- - Data Tape Librarian booking in system - Data formatting / standardisation for client data files Technical Languages - Unix Shell Programming - Selcopy