Lead AI Solutions Architect

Sopra Steria Group; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in technology seeks a Lead AI Architect to drive innovation in AI and data solutions. This role offers significant responsibilities in leading teams, proposing technical solutions, and shaping strategies for key government and technology sectors. Enjoy the opportunity for career progression and flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Career progression opportunities

Training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in complex architecture solutions and consultancy.
• Strong knowledge of AI and Machine Learning.
• Experience in developing data architectures and pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Lead a high-performing team and support business requirements.
• Propose optimal solutions and lead design artefacts.
• Build compelling propositions for market.

Skills

AI

Machine Learning

Optical Character Recognition

Data Integration

Cloud native engineering

Tools

AWS Sagemaker

Azure AI

Argo

AirFlow

Kubernetes

Job description

Do you have a strong interest in shaping the future with advanced AI and data solutions? As the Lead AI Architect within our AI & Data, you'll play a key role in technological advancement, leading a team and spearheading successful projects in government, transport, and technology sectors.

What sets this opportunity apart is the chance to contribute to high-profile projects and make an impact on key decision-makers in different industries. You will have the opportunity to create and take ownership of technical solutions, promote our AI and data platform offerings, and provide guidance on technology strategies, roadmaps, and business plans. . Working with the wider Group rAIse strategic AI initiative is a key aspect of the role to both leverage group AI IP and to contribute to the development of global offerings and capability.

Your role will extend beyond our organisation, representing us at conferences and establishing market presence. You will be an inspiring expert, collaborating closely with the office of the CTO and the broader architecture and technology practices. Join us and become the driving force behind innovative solutions that redefine the future of technology.

We can offer great career progression opportunities, ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs and training and development opportunities.

What you'll be doing:

• Lead a high-performing team and foster relationships within Sopra Steria.
• Support and contribute to the development of business requirements.
• Propose optimal solutions and lead the design and creation of design artefacts across pre-sales, delivery and as repeatable blueprints.
• Make day to day decisions regarding the setup and priorities for the architecture community along with their required leadership team to govern and direct resources within it.
• Build and the support the development of compelling propositions to take to market.
• Leading technical design and authoring on bids and proposals.
• Maintain customer relationships and make sure the right skills are maintained in the architecture function.

What you’ll bring:

• Experience in complex architecture solutions and consultancy.
• Strong knowledge of AI, Machine Learning (e.g., AWS Sagemaker, Azure AI), GenAI (e.g., ChatGPT, OpenAI), and intelligent document processing including Optical Character Recognition.
• Digital assistant solutions enhanced by AI such as Microsoft Copilot.
• Data architectures including data integration, management, reporting and analytics, simulation and digital twins.
• Data pipeline development including data and AI Operations using tools such as Argo, AirFlow, MIFlow, Superset and DebiAI.
• Cloud native delivery engineering such as Containers / Kubernetes, event driven architecture, microservices and Prometheus.

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Referral Bonus - £3,000.

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We support the UK Government to tackle today’s biggest challenges. We combine technical expertise and delivery capability with vision to accelerate change and reinvent the way that Public Services are designed and delivered. We work with energy and integrity to build intelligent, highly secure, joined-up solutions that make a difference to everyday lives. We’ve been helping Government to make a difference for 50 years, creating common systems and approaches, enabling government to work across multiple agencies and radically transform how Public Services are delivered. Empowering Government to make a difference to everyone, every day.