Lead Solutions Architect: AI-Driven Cloud & Systems

hedgehog lab; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days holiday + bank holidays

5 Impact Days for learning/innovation/

2 wellbeing days and wellbeing budget

Learning budget for training and con­f

Enhanced sick pay and parental leave

Free counselling, Cycle to Work and a

Company laptop

Job summary

hedgehog lab, a digital product consultancy with 20 years in health tech, retail and financial services, seeks a senior software/cloud engineer in the UK. You will design and build client systems, guide architecture choices and develop cloud infrastructure, pipelines and environments.

You’ll lead technical workstreams and collaborate with engineers, QA and designers across multiple projects. You’ll work with AI agent prototypes, partner with delivery and product teams, and help estimate new

Qualifications

• Designed and built software on commercial projects
• Built cloud-native systems with architecture patterns
• Led technical workstreams and collaborated with architects
• Able to write production code in TS, Python or Node
• Able to explain complex decisions to non-technical stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Design the systems behind client projects using recognized architecture patterns
• Write production code with the engineering team
• Design and build the cloud infrastructure, pipelines and environments
• Lead the technical side of a workstream with tech leads and architects
• Build prototypes with AI agents to test ideas early
• Assist engineers with cloud experience
• Help estimate new work

Skills

Software design

Cloud architectures

AWS

TypeScript

Python

Node.js

Team leadership

Communicating decisions

Tools

AWS

TypeScript

Python

Node.js

Job description

hedgehog lab, a digital product consultancy with 20 years in health tech, retail and financial services, seeks a senior software/cloud engineer in the UK. You will design and build client systems, guide architecture choices and develop cloud infrastructure, pipelines and environments.

You’ll lead technical workstreams and collaborate with engineers, QA and designers across multiple projects. You’ll work with AI agent prototypes, partner with delivery and product teams, and help estimate new