Senior AI-Driven Digital Experience Architect

European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL); Hinxton; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 53,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Financial incentives

Flexible working - hybrid

Private medical insurance

30 days annual leave

Relocation package

Campus facilities

Job summary

EMBL-EBI is seeking an experienced Senior Solution Architect to join the Digital Experience Team. You will shape AI-enabled digital services and guide a multidisciplinary team, bridging UX and engineering to deliver accessible, scalable systems.

You will lead architecture across APIs, content platforms and emerging digital channels, applying AI techniques while ensuring security, accessibility and responsible AI considerations.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in a senior solution architecture or digital architecture role.
• Strong software engineering background with modern digital applications.
• Practical experience designing AI-enabled services, with LLMs and AI orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Lead solution architecture for digital experience initiatives across web apps, APIs and AI-enabled services.
• Shape AI-enabled digital services applying LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation and semantic search.
• Bridge UX and engineering translating user needs into scalable architectures.
• Provide technical leadership through discovery, prototyping, implementation and production.
• Lead and develop the development team with mentoring and capability-building.
• Design integrations across APIs, data sources and enterprise systems.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to balance technical and user needs.
• Shape future technical capability with reusable architecture patterns.

Skills

Solution architecture

Digital architecture

Software engineering lead

APIs

Cloud

CI/CD

Security

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

EMBL-EBI is seeking an experienced Senior Solution Architect to join the Digital Experience Team. You will shape AI-enabled digital services and guide a multidisciplinary team, bridging UX and engineering to deliver accessible, scalable systems.

You will lead architecture across APIs, content platforms and emerging digital channels, applying AI techniques while ensuring security, accessibility and responsible AI considerations.