Technical Solutions Architect - Contract UK

Role overview

Design and build cloud based solutions that apply AI, machine learning and data science to complex customer problems. You’ll shape technical direction, work hands-on alongside development and data teams, and explain architectural choices to both technical and business stakeholders. This is a UK remote contract role inside IR35.

Responsibilities - Select technologies, design APIs and establish reusable architectural patterns for products and client projects. - Translate functional and non-functional needs into solutions, then guide the development team through implementation. - Collaborate with data science and data engineering colleagues to deliver robust, performant cloud solutions. - Build and validate technical approaches, contribute code, review changes and improve engineering practices. - Communicate decisions and trade-offs clearly to clients, stakeholders and teammates, while bringing in and assessing new ideas.

Requirements - Experience delivering enterprise-grade software and understanding how it fits into a wider technical environment. - Knowledge of established design patterns and how to apply them to AI-oriented systems. - Commitment to quality practices, automated testing and infrastructure as code. - Experience building CI/CD pipelines that automate testing and releases. - Strong written, spoken and diagrammatic communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice to have - Understanding of event-driven architecture. - Working knowledge of Rust. - Familiarity with data engineering or data science platforms and practices.