AI Solution Architect

Project overview

AI Solutions Architect

Edinburgh - 6 month contract

£450 per day (inside IR35)

On behalf of a Global Leading organisation, I am seeking an experienced AI Solution Architect to join this team on a 6-month initial contract. As a Data/AI Solutions Architect, you will be responsible for designing scalable, highly secure, and resilient data and AI systems, while driving strategic initiatives including Machine Learning, LLMOps, RAG, and GCP cloud migration. This role bridges business needs with technical execution, involving stakeholder management, cloud-native architecture development, and ensuring compliance with data governance, security, and ethical AI standards.

I am pleased to offer this role on a hybrid working basis, with 2 days required in their Edinburgh offices, therefore you must be within commutable distance to this location.

PLEASE NOTE: I am unable to offer visa sponsorship at this time.

Responsibilities

Required Skills & Experience

Beneficial Skills:

Understanding of enterprise integration and event architecture.

• Define end to end architectures for AI, ML, data, and agentic AI solutions running on Google Cloud Platform.
• Develop and maintain iterative designs aligned to modern engineering practice.
• Ensure alignment to platform strategy, technology standards, and security controls.
• Deliver high-quality, secure solutions using GCP cloud-native services, and event-driven patterns.
• Architect GCP workloads using services such as BigQuery, Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud Storage, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Vertex AI, Looker, and Cloud Composer.
• Apply strong understanding of Kubernetes, service mesh, ingress, workload identity, and network/security boundaries.
• Design and implement API and service integration patterns using Istio, Apigee, and modern microservice standards.
• Integrate enterprise AuthN/AuthZ patterns (OIDC, IAM roles, workload identities, Apigee security policies).
• Ensure solutions meet strict regulatory, risk management, and security standards.
• Work with engineering, data science, and business teams to translate requirements into actionable, high-level designs.
• Proven experience with major Cloud platforms like GCP/Azure.
• Deep understanding of modern data architecture, Machine Learning, and AI tools.
• Experience in largescale data migrations with ETL toolsets, DataStage decommissioning paths, or modern data movement patterns is beneficial.
• Design orchestrations and technical patterns for agentic AI, LLM based systems, RAG, and workflow orchestration.
• Ability to articulate trade-offs, lead design decisions, and shape technical direction.
• Strong ability to communicate complex technical concepts in the design forums and participate in architectural governance (ARC, AWG) and represent the lab's technical direction.
• Experience in the banking or financial industry is beneficial.
• Experience with Vertex AI or other model lifecycle tooling.
• Knowledge of LangChain/LangGraph, RAG patterns, and AI workflow orchestration.
• Experience in multi cloud (GCP/Azure/AWS) or hybrid environments.

Project details

• Start: ASAP
• Duration: 6-months
• Location: Edinburgh, UK, GB
• Rate: 56-56 EUR/h