GCP AI Platform Architect - Hybrid (Edinburgh)

Consult; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 101,000 - 132,000; Full time

Job summary

Norton Blake is partnering with an established consulting practice to recruit a Data & AI Solutions Architect for an enterprise-scale programme in Edinburgh. The role focuses on designing scalable, secure data and AI platforms on GCP, bridging business needs with engineering execution.

You will lead end-to-end architectures, drive governance, and collaborate with data science, engineering, and commercial teams.

Qualifications

• Proven enterprise cloud architecture experience on GCP.
• Deep understanding of data and ML lifecycles.
• Experience with LLM-based systems, RAG, and agentic AI.
• Strong cross-team communication and governance.
• Experience in regulated sectors is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end architectures for AI, ML, data and agentic AI on GCP.
• Lead secure, high-performance workloads with Vertex AI, BigQuery, etc.
• Design integration patterns using Istio and Apigee with IAM controls.
• Apply Kubernetes and network security to resilient hosting.
• Represent technical direction in governance bodies and collaborate with teams.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Data & AI

Generative AI

Agentic AI

Stakeholder management

Financial services exposure

Tools

Vertex AI

BigQuery

Looker

GKE

Dataflow

Pub/Sub

Cloud Run

Apigee

Istio

Kubernetes

LangChain

LangGraph

Job description

Norton Blake is partnering with an established consulting practice to recruit a Data & AI Solutions Architect for an enterprise-scale programme in Edinburgh. The role focuses on designing scalable, secure data and AI platforms on GCP, bridging business needs with engineering execution.

You will lead end-to-end architectures, drive governance, and collaborate with data science, engineering, and commercial teams.