Senior Data & AI Architect – Strategy & Delivery

Kainos; Belfast City District; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Kainos is seeking a Principal Architect for Data & AI to deliver modern data/AI solutions across multiple customers. You will influence senior stakeholders and guide architectural decisions with gravitas in the data community.

You will lead and mentor architects and engineers, shape standards, and advocate for new technologies while supporting career growth and knowledge sharing within agile teams.

Qualifications

• Broad knowledge of a spectrum of current and emerging data and AI technologies, and able to communicate clearly and influence C-level stakeholders (IOT, edge processing, event driven data architectures, serverless processing, file system, object, document, key-value, search, RDBMS, graph, cognitive services, machine learning).
• Proven experience designing, building and productionising modern data or AI intensive applications, including distributed and scalable systems.
• Experience with public cloud data platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) including IaaS, SaaS and PaaS offerings.
• Familiarity with data integration techniques such as messaging, queuing, CDC or data virtualization.
• Ability to prioritise customer concerns and balance non-functional requirements across multiple major projects.
• Experience developing business understanding and commercial implications of decisions.
• Motivate and empower teams to foster an inclusive, creative culture with wellbeing focus.

Responsibilities

• Provide assurance and support to multi-skilled agile teams by understanding outcomes and complexity to guide design decisions.
• Lead development of policy and standards, build customer relationships, account strategies, and share knowledge.
• Mentor colleagues and help navigate career development while staying current with new technologies.

Job description

Kainos is seeking a Principal Architect for Data & AI to deliver modern data/AI solutions across multiple customers. You will influence senior stakeholders and guide architectural decisions with gravitas in the data community.

You will lead and mentor architects and engineers, shape standards, and advocate for new technologies while supporting career growth and knowledge sharing within agile teams.