AI Solutions Architect – Senior Manager

Anson McCade; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical cover

24/7 virtual GP access

Six volunteering days per year

Flexible hybrid working

Financial, wellbeing and lifestyle ben

Job summary

Anson McCade is partnering with a leading global consulting firm to recruit a Senior Manager – Solution Architect for its Technology and AI practice in the UK. This senior role shapes architecture for AI-enabled digital products and platforms, guiding from discovery through to live deployment.

You will lead architecture across complex programmes, influencing strategy and ensuring production-ready solutions while collaborating with security, data, and cloud teams. Hybrid working is offered.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing and delivering enterprise solutions from discovery through to production.
• Cloud-native architecture across Azure, AWS or GCP.
• Knowledge of APIs, integration, security, identity, DevSecOps, observability and resilience.
• Experience designing and delivering AI solutions, including RAG, AI models, agents and orchestration.
• Background in AI platforms, software engineering, cloud modernisation or distributed technologies.
• Strong architectural judgement and experience leading complex technical programmes.
• Excellent stakeholder management, with the ability to influence senior business and technology leaders.
• Proven experience mentoring technical teams and contributing to proposals and solution shaping.
• Flexible hybrid working.
• Private medical cover and 24/7 virtual GP access.
• Six volunteering days per year.
• Additional financial, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end architecture across AI-enabled products, platforms and digital services.
• Provide senior technical leadership across engineering teams and complex programmes.
• Oversee architectural decisions, managing technical risks, dependencies and trade-offs.
• Design production-ready AI solutions, including AI models, RAG, agents and orchestration.
• Establish reusable architecture patterns, standards and reference architectures.
• Work closely with Enterprise Architecture, Security, Data and Platform teams.
• Support client engagements, proposals and RFP/RFI activity.
• Mentor and develop Solution Architects, Engineers and wider technical teams.

Skills

Cloud-native architecture

Stakeholder management

Mentoring teams

Solution architecture

APIs and security

Tools

DevSecOps

Job description

We are working with a leading global consulting firm looking to appoint a Senior Manager – Solution Architect to join its growing Technology and AI practice.

This is a senior leadership opportunity to shape and oversee the architecture of innovative, AI-enabled digital products and platforms, helping clients deliver secure, scalable and business-critical technology solutions.

The Role

You will take ownership of solution architecture across complex programmes, leading from initial discovery and design through to engineering delivery and live deployment.

Working with senior stakeholders and multidisciplinary teams across engineering, product, data, security and cloud, you will provide architectural direction, influence technical strategy and ensure solutions are robust, scalable and production-ready.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end architecture across AI-enabled products, platforms and digital services.
• Provide senior technical leadership across engineering teams and complex programmes.
• Oversee architectural decisions, managing technical risks, dependencies and trade-offs.
• Design production-ready AI solutions, including AI models, RAG, agents and orchestration.
• Establish reusable architecture patterns, standards and reference architectures.
• Work closely with Enterprise Architecture, Security, Data and Platform teams.
• Support client engagements, proposals and RFP/RFI activity.
• Mentor and develop Solution Architects, Engineers and wider technical teams.

What We're Looking For

• Extensive experience designing and delivering enterprise solutions from discovery through to production.
• Strong cloud-native architecture experience across Azure, AWS or GCP.
• Knowledge of APIs, integration, security, identity, DevSecOps, observability and resilience.
• Experience designing and delivering AI solutions, including RAG, AI models, agents and orchestration.
• Background in AI platforms, software engineering, cloud modernisation or distributed technologies.
• Strong architectural judgement and experience leading complex technical programmes.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior business and technology leaders.
• Proven experience mentoring technical teams and contributing to proposals and solution shaping.
• Flexible hybrid working.
• Private medical cover and 24/7 virtual GP access.
• Six volunteering days per year.
• Additional financial, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits.