Lead AI Architect

2 weeks ago

GB, UK Sopra Steria Full time
Do you have a strong interest in shaping the future with advanced AI and data solutions? As the Lead AI Architect within our AI Practice, you'll play a key role in technological advancement, leading a team and spearheading 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, 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:
  • Lead a high-performing team and foster relationships within Sopra Steria.
  • Support and contribute to the development of business requirements.
  • Propose optimal solutions and lead the design and creation of design artefacts across pre-sales, delivery and as repeatable blueprints.
  • 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.
  • Build and the support the development of compelling propositions to take to market.
  • Leading technical design and authoring on bids and proposals.
  • Maintain customer relationships and make sure the right skills are maintained in the architecture function.

What you'll bring:
  • Experience in complex architecture solutions and consultancy.
  • Strong knowledge of AI, ML (e.g., AWS Sagemaker, Azure AI), GenAI (e.g., ChatGPT, OpenAI), and intelligent document processing including OCR.
  • Digital assistant solutions enhanced by AI such as Microsoft Copilot.
  • Data architectures including data integration, management, reporting and analytics, simulation and digital twins.
  • Data pipeline development including data and AI Operations using tools such as Argo, AirFlow, MIFlow, Superset and DebiAI.
  • Cloud native delivery engineering such as Containers / 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: up to £101k

Benefits: up to 7.5%, £6,600 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical (couple), 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 improves 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.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?

We support the UK Government to tackle today's biggest challenges. We combine technical expertise and delivery capability with vision to accelerate change and reinvent the way that Public Services are designed and delivered. We work with energy and integrity to build intelligent, highly secure, joined-up solutions that make a difference to everyday lives. We've been helping Government to make a difference for 50 years, creating common systems and approaches, enabling government to work across multiple agencies and radically transform how Public Services are delivered. Empowering Government to make a difference to everyone, every day.

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida , the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.

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