Principal Solution Architect

KX; United States; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Employee assistance programme

Maternity/paternity package

Training and skills development

Job summary

KX is seeking a Principal Solution Architect to lead the KX Services technical delivery function, overseeing architects, developers and DevOps. You will work with customer executives and senior technical stakeholders to ensure delivery supports adoption, measurable outcomes and lasting trust.

A major part of the role is advancing the AI-led delivery practice, turning successful experiments into repeatable patterns and reusable assets, while maintaining high technical standards across the wider

Qualifications

• Lead and develop senior technical professionals and teams.
• Deep expertise in q/kdb+ with ability to extend to KDB-X and wider KX stack.
• Design and govern complex, data-intensive systems with performance, resilience and security.
• Experience working with clients in a professional-services context and building trusted relationships.
• Lead complex customer engagements through definition, delivery, adoption and issue resolution.
• Translate technical decisions into business implications and communicate with executives.
• Shape scopes, estimates, and Statements of Work for engagements.
• Turn delivery experience into reusable architectures and standards.
• Understand AI-assisted engineering and responsible deployment patterns.

Responsibilities

• Lead the KX Services technical delivery function, including architects, developers and DevOps.
• Set the function's technical direction, engineering standards and reference architectures.
• Advise customer executives and senior technical stakeholders on architecture and roadmaps.
• Partner with Customer Success, account teams and Delivery Managers to maintain alignment and outcomes.
• Provide technical leadership during complex engagements and escalations.
• Shape scopes, estimates, options and Statements of Work.
• Turn delivery experience into structured product feedback for KDB-X.
• Mature the AI delivery strategy into repeatable AI-led development and deployment patterns.
• Develop organizational capability through coaching and collaborations with Product, R&D and Developer Relations.
• Govern methodologies and quality standards for architectural reviews and health checks.

Skills

Leadership

q/kdb+

System design

Client relationships

Solution delivery

Communication

Architectural reuse

AI deployment

Cross-org influence

Tools

KDB-X

Cloud architecture

CI/CD

Container deployments

Job description

Our mission is to accelerate data and AI-driven innovation with high-performance analytics solutions, enabling our customers to transform into AI-first enterprises. KX is trusted by the world's top investment banks and hedge funds, aerospace and defence, life and health sciences, semiconductor, telecommunications, and advanced manufacturing companies.

Time series and vector data analytics and management are at the heart of our products, independently benchmarked as the fastest on the market. They help our customers process data at unmatched speed and scale and empower LOB leaders, developers, data scientists, and data engineers to build high-performance data-driven applications and turbocharge their favourite analytics tools in the cloud, on-premise, or at the edge.

KX technology enables the discovery of richer, actionable insights for faster, better-informed decision-making, driving competitive advantage and transformative growth for our customers. KX operates across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.

Role Overview

We are hiring a Principal Solution Architect to lead the KX Services technical delivery function, including architects, developers and DevOps. As a member of the KX Services Leadership Team, you will be accountable for the function's people, technical direction, engineering practices and contribution to customer outcomes.

You will bring deep credibility in kdb+ and use that foundation to lead its evolution into KDB-X across KX Services. Working directly with customer executives and senior technical stakeholders, you will ensure our technical delivery supports successful adoption, measurable customer outcomes and lasting customer trust.

A major part of the role is to take the existing KX Services AI delivery strategy from early adoption to a mature, repeatable AI-led development and deployment practice. You will turn successful experiments into standard ways of working, reusable assets and responsible deployment patterns that improve productivity, quality and reuse.

This is a management and leadership role. You will lead through people managers, Team Leads and senior technical professionals while remaining sufficiently hands-on to guide complex engagements, resolve critical issues and set the technical standard for the wider function.

Location & Workplace Type

This position follows a hybrid working model. The primary location will be confirmed.

Required Skills & Experience

• A sustained record of leading and developing senior technical professionals, including people managers or Team Leads.


• Deep expertise and established credibility in q/kdb+, with the ability to apply that foundation to KDB-X and the wider KX product stack.


• Strong experience designing and governing complex, data-intensive systems, including architecture, performance, resilience, deployment, integration, security and operability.


• A sustained record of working directly with clients in a professional-services environment and building trusted relationships with senior technical and business stakeholders.


• Experience leading complex customer engagements through solution definition, delivery, adoption and resolution of critical issues.


• The judgement and communication skills to advise customer executives, challenge constructively and translate technical decisions into business implications.


• Experience shaping complex scopes, estimates, technical propositions and Statements of Work.


• A strong record of turning delivery experience into reusable architectures, technical standards and improved ways of working.


• Practical understanding of AI-assisted engineering and agentic systems, including the controls required for responsible customer deployment.


• Experience leading across organisational boundaries and influencing product, engineering, commercial and customer-facing stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with KDB-X or other current KX products; existing KDB-X mastery is beneficial but not a prerequisite.


• Experience with cloud architecture, distributed systems, DevOps, CI/CD and container is deployments.


• Experience working with high-performance time-series, vector real-time analytics solutions.


• Knowledge of financial services, aerospace and defence, life sciences, telecommunications, manufacturing or other data-intensive industries.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop the KX Services technical delivery function, including architects, developers and DevOps.


• Set the function's technical direction, engineering standards, reference architectures and reusable delivery patterns.


• Advise customer executives and senior technical stakeholders on architecture, transformation roadmaps and the business implications of technical decisions.


• Partner with Customer Success, account teams and Delivery Managers throughout the customer lifecycle to maintain technical alignment, remove adoption barriers and support intended customer outcomes.


• Deploy appropriate technical leadership to complex engagements and escalations, intervening personally where senior judgement or management authority is required.


• Shape technical scopes, estimates, solution options and Statements of Work, translating architectural choices into customer value, technical risk and delivery assumptions.


• Turn customer and delivery experience into structured product feedback, informing KDB-X priorities, release readiness and future Services offerings.


• Mature the KX Services AI delivery strategy into a repeatable AI-led development and deployment practice that improves productivity, quality and reuse.


• Build organisational capability through coaching, succession planning, communities of practice and collaboration with Product, R&D and Developer Relations.


• Govern technical methodologies and quality standards for specialist services such as architectural reviews, performance assessments and health checks.

Why Choose KX?

Data Driven: We lead with instinct and follow fact.

Naturally Curious: We lean in, listen and learn fast.

All In: We take ownership, take on challenges and give it our all.

• Individually tailored training and skills development


• Private healthcare package and Employee Assistance Programme


• Enhanced maternity and paternity package