Senior HPC Architect & Strategy Lead

Viridien; Crawley; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Bonus scheme

Pension

Initial 22 days annual leave

Flexible benefits platform

Cycle purchase scheme

Wellbeing app Unmind

Job summary

Viridien is seeking an experienced HPC Architecture Leader to shape the strategy, roadmap and delivery of our high-performance computing platforms. You will lead end-to-end architecture for next-gen systems, aligning engineering, operations, vendors and clients to deliver secure, scalable workloads.

This hands-on leadership role requires 8+ years in HPC design, 3+ years managing teams, and deep Linux and GPU/CPU HPC expertise.

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing HPC compute/storage architectures in production.
• 3+ years leading an HPC technology team and mentoring staff.
• Deep knowledge of CPU/GPU HPC stacks and Linux environments.
• Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional leadership.
• Experience with HPC benchmarking and performance tuning.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end architecture for next-gen HPC systems.
• Shape strategy, roadmap, and delivery of HPC platforms.
• Align engineering, operations, vendors and clients for secure, scalable solutions.
• Drive cost optimization, reliability and performance improvements.

Skills

HPC architecture

Leadership

Linux

CPU/GPU

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Tools

Lustre

Ceph

BeeGFS

InfiniBand

Job description

Viridien is seeking an experienced HPC Architecture Leader to shape the strategy, roadmap and delivery of our high-performance computing platforms. You will lead end-to-end architecture for next-gen systems, aligning engineering, operations, vendors and clients to deliver secure, scalable workloads.

This hands-on leadership role requires 8+ years in HPC design, 3+ years managing teams, and deep Linux and GPU/CPU HPC expertise.