Gen AI Solution Architect — Cloud-Native Data & AI Systems

Consult; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Consult is seeking a Data/AI Solutions Architect based in Edinburgh to design scalable, secure data and AI systems. You will drive machine learning initiatives, LLMOps, RAG and GCP cloud migration, bridging business needs with technical execution while ensuring governance and ethical AI standards.

You will lead architecture discussions, define end-to-end patterns, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver compliant, cloud-native solutions using GCP services and modern patterns.

Qualifications

• Proven experience with major clouds (GCP/Azure).
• Deep data architecture, ML/AI tooling, large migrations helpful.
• Ability to design agentic AI, LLM-based systems and RAG patterns.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end AI, ML and data architectures on Google Cloud Platform.
• Lead design decisions and govern technical direction; articulate trade-offs.
• Architect GCP workloads using BigQuery, Cloud Run, GKE, Dataflow, Pub/Sub and Vertex AI.
• Implement secure, compliant designs with governance in mind.
• Collaborate with engineering, data science and business teams to translate requirements.

Skills

Cloud Expertise

Data & AI Knowledge

Architecture & Leadership

Communication

Job description

Consult is seeking a Data/AI Solutions Architect based in Edinburgh to design scalable, secure data and AI systems. You will drive machine learning initiatives, LLMOps, RAG and GCP cloud migration, bridging business needs with technical execution while ensuring governance and ethical AI standards.

You will lead architecture discussions, define end-to-end patterns, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver compliant, cloud-native solutions using GCP services and modern patterns.