Solutions Architect (AI)

YTL UK; Bath; Hybride; GBP 90 000 - 130 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Pension up to 20%

Holiday entitlement 25–28 days

Five days of holiday sell-back

Electric car salary sacrifice

Healthcare package

Life assurance

Retail discounts

Volunteer day

Wellbeing platform access

Mental health support

Referral bonus £1,000

Résumé du poste

YTL UK seeks an experienced Solutions Architect to drive the technical foundations for product and service delivery. You will own the delivery stack end-to-end in Azure, govern CI/CD, and shape solutions to be secure, observable, and scalable for an AI-first delivery team.

You will lead design, governance and hands-on delivery across security, observability and performance, while tracking industry trends and applying advanced AI techniques to real-world deployments.

Qualifications

• Deep, current full stack engineering capability with hands-on delivery in a CI/CD ecosystem using infrastructure as code.
• Fluent Python and JavaScript/TypeScript across backend, frontend, and automation scripting.
• Strong design judgement for containers, virtualization, networking and Azure environments.
• Proven ownership of CI/CD pipelines, IaC, release governance and DORA metrics.
• Security, observability and test automation expertise.
• Experience with AI-first, agentic software delivery and skills libraries.
• Ability to codify standards as machine-readable scaffolding and balance governance with speed.
• Credibility to represent the team with enterprise architecture, security and assurance.
• Expertise in generative AI systems, including RAG pipelines and tool-use patterns.
• Broad knowledge of modern AI technologies, deep learning, and predictive ML.

Responsabilités

• Actively contribute hands-on towards ongoing deliveries.
• Own and version technical foundations across seven harness dimensions to ensure secure, observable defaults.
• Build and maintain shared CI/CD pipelines and release governance with automated standards.
• Own the light-touch technical governance model with automated gates.
• Ensure observability is instrumented from first commit through live running.
• Own end-to-end delivery stack design in Azure: architecture, containerisation, virtualization, networking and deployment topology.
• Shape deliveries as one of three leads, testing technical feasibility and setting no-gos.
• Represent the team's technical position in assurance, security and enterprise architecture discussions.
• Proactively track industry trends and apply new techniques in harnesses and skills library.

Connaissances

Full stack engineering

CI/CD pipelines

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

Azure

Security

Observability

Automation scripting

AI-first delivery

Engineering standards

Outils

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Kubernetes

Description du poste

As our Solutions Architect, you are an active contributor to our product/service deliveries. Using these delivery experiences to inform direction, you will own and evolve the technical foundations that underpin product and service delivery, including engineering standards, development patterns and frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, testing harnesses, observability, and operational practices.

Your focus will be on enabling a fast-moving, AI-first delivery team to consistently deliver high-quality, scalable, and supportable solutions without needing to rebuild core foundations for every delivery cycle.

What you'll do

In this varied role, you will:

• actively contribute hands-on towards ongoingdeliveries
• own and versiontechnical foundations across all seven harness dimensions (security, performance, coding style, UI/UX baselines, logging and observability, testing) so that every deliverable inherits secure, observable and tested defaults
• build and maintain the shared CI/CD pipelines and release governance so that standards are enforced automatically, and DORA metrics are produced from the pipeline itself
• own the light-touch technical governance model - automated gates over committee review
• ensure observability is instrumented from the first commit through to live running so that everything the team ships can be operated and handed over to a receiving product team
• own the design and hands-on running of the delivery stack end to end - application architecture, containerisation, virtualisation, networking and deployment topology - so that what the team builds can be stood up, scaled and supported in the Azure estate without external dependency
• shape deliveries as one of three leads, testing technical feasibility and setting the no-gos, so that committed work stays inside its appetite
• represent the team's technical position in assurance, security and enterprise architecture conversations
• proactively track industry trends, emerging tools and agentic engineering practice, and self-initiate the learning needed to apply them - trialling promising techniques and approaches in cooldown and sharing what works back into the harness, rules files and skills library.

What you'll need

We are looking for:

• deep, current full stack engineering capability with hands-on delivery in a CI/CD ecosystem using infrastructure as code approaches
• practical coding experience in Python and JavaScript/TypeScript, with enough fluency to workacross back-end services, front-end interfaces and automation scripting
• sound stack design judgement, with working knowledge of containerisation, virtualisation and networking sufficient to design, deploy and troubleshoot applications across Azure environments
• proven ownership of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, release governance and DORA-based delivery measurement
• strong grounding in security (secret management, dependency and static analysis scanning, least-privilege IAM), observability (structured logging, tracing and metrics) and test and evaluation automation
• practical experience of AI-first, agentic software delivery - rules files, known-good templates, curated skills libraries and evaluation harnesses for AI-generated output
• ability to codify standards as machine-readable scaffolding rather than documentation, and to balance light-touch governance against delivery speed
• credibility to represent the team's technical position with enterprise architecture, security and assurance functions
• expertise in designing and/or implementing generative AI systems, including agentic systems, RAG pipelines, tool-use patterns, and modeladaptation strategies
• breadth of knowledge across modern AI technologies, including generative models, deep learning, and predictive ML.

What you'll receive

• A combined pension contribution of up to 20%.
• Career progression and professional development opportunities.
• 25 days' holiday rising to 28 with length of service.
• The opportunity to sell up to five days of holiday every year.
• The opportunity to buy up to ten days of holiday each year (subject to conditions).
• A healthcare package that allows you to claim back healthcare costs.
• Life assurance of up to eight times your salary.
• The opportunity to lease a new electric car through salary sacrifice (subject to conditions).
• Cashback and discounts from more than 3,000 retailers.
• One paid volunteering day each year.
• Enhanced family leave and pay arrangements.
• Access to an interactive health and wellbeing platform.
• Support from trained mental health first aiders.
• A £1,000 referral fee if you recommend someone who is successfully recruited by us.

Who we are

YTL UK is part of the international YTL Group based in Kuala Lumpur. The UK companies include:

• Wessex Water – one of the top-performing water and sewerage companies in England and Wales, serving 2.9 million people across the South West
• YTL Developments – a major UK developer currently redeveloping a 450-acre former airfield into an award-winning, exciting mix of houses, apartments, schools, commercial space, restaurants and hotels, to make a truly sustainable new community
• YTL Construction UK – a top 20 UK contractor providing fully integrated services to infrastructure, residential, commercial, industry, energy and environmental sectors
• YTL Live – the development and operation of an entertainment complex that includes a 20,000 capacity arena, conferencing and exhibition space
• plus a number of other retail, environmental and specialist businesses.

Our people tell us that YTL UK is a great place to work, which is why so many of them stay with us! You will have a unique opportunity to develop and progress your career within such a diverse group.

We are passionate about diversity and inclusion – with that in mind, all applicants are welcome. We are delighted to have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and are a Disability Confident Employer.

If you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process, please inform a member of our Recruitment team.