Lead AI Solutions Architect

As the Lead AI Architect within our AI Practice, you'll play a key role in technological advancement, developing a team and leading successful projects in government, transport, and technology sectors.

You will have the opportunity to create and take ownership of technical solutions, promote our AI and data platform offerings, and provide guidance on technology strategies, roadmaps, and business plans. Your role will extend beyond our organisation, representing us at conferences and establishing market presence. Join us and become the driving force behind innovative solutions that redefine the future of technology.

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that values diversity and champions equality. We believe that a diverse team brings a wealth of perspectives and ideas, driving innovation and excellence. We actively welcome applications from all sections of the community and encourage candidates from underrepresented groups to apply.

We can offer great career progression opportunities, the ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs, and training and development opportunities.

What you'll be doing:

1. Lead a high-performing team and foster relationships within Sopra Steria.
2. Support and contribute to the development of business requirements.
3. Propose optimal solutions and lead the design and creation of design artefacts across pre-sales, delivery and as repeatable blueprints.
4. Make day to day decisions regarding the setup and priorities for the architecture community along with their required leadership team to govern and direct resources within it.
5. Build and support the development of compelling propositions to take to market.
6. Lead technical design and authoring on bids and proposals.
7. Maintain customer relationships and ensure the right skills are maintained in the architecture function.

What you'll bring:

1. Pre-sales experience.
2. Strong knowledge of AI and Machine Learning, for example, AWS Sagemaker, Azure AI, GenAI, and intelligent document processing including Optical Character Recognition.
3. Digital assistant solutions enhanced by AI such as Microsoft Copilot.
4. Data architectures including data integration, management, reporting and analytics, simulation, and digital twins.
5. Data pipeline development including data and AI Operations using tools such as Argo, AirFlow, MIFlow, Superset, and DebiAI.
6. Cloud native delivery engineering such as Kubernetes, event-driven architecture, microservices, and Prometheus.

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we're looking for, please do apply; we'd love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Permanent.

Location: UK.

Security Clearance Level: SC Eligible.

Internal Recruiter: Annecia.

Salary: dependent on experience.

Benefits: up to 7.5%, £6,600 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund.

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress, and improve performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.