Senior AI-Enabled Digital Experience Architect

European Molecular Biology Laboratory; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 47,000 - 58,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working arrangements

Private medical insurance

30 days annual leave

Relocation package

On-site facilities

Job summary

EMBL-EBI is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to lead Digital Experience initiatives. You will guide architecture across web apps, APIs and AI-enabled services, while hands-on in discovery and development.

You will mentor teams and collaborate with UX, product and IT stakeholders across EMBL-EBI. You will shape AI-enabled digital services, ensure accessible, scalable architectures, and drive modern software delivery practices.

Qualifications

• Senior role in solution and digital architecture, plus software engineering leadership.
• Experience designing AI-enabled digital services and modern apps.
• Strong understanding of APIs, cloud and containerised architectures, CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead solution architecture for web apps, APIs, content platforms, AI-enabled services and new channels.
• Shape AI-enabled digital services using LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, agents and semantic search.
• Bridge UX and engineering by translating user needs into sustainable technical architectures.
• Provide technical leadership through discovery, prototyping, implementation and production, guiding decisions.
• Lead and develop the development team with mentoring and capability building.
• Design integrations across APIs, data sources and enterprise systems.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across EMBL-EBI to balance technical, user and organisational requirements.
• Shape future capabilities with reusable architecture patterns and best practices.

Skills

Solution architecture

Digital architecture

Software engineering lead

AI-enabled apps

APIs

Cloud architecture

CI/CD

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Job description

EMBL-EBI is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to lead Digital Experience initiatives. You will guide architecture across web apps, APIs and AI-enabled services, while hands-on in discovery and development.

You will mentor teams and collaborate with UX, product and IT stakeholders across EMBL-EBI. You will shape AI-enabled digital services, ensure accessible, scalable architectures, and drive modern software delivery practices.