Posted: 18 June
The role
Digital Architect - Senior Manager - Permanent
Location: Flexible working model with occasional travel to client/home office site
Salary: Up to £103,000 per annum + Bonus - Depending on experience
Clearance: Candidates must be eligible for SC Clearance, have 5 years UK residency, and the correct right to work status in the UK.
A leading IT Consultancy and Transformation client is looking to onboard a Senior Consultant - Digital Architect to work across an exciting Private & Public Sector focused projects.
The focus of your role, as a Digital Solution Architect Senior Manager, will be to guide clients through technology enabled transformation, influencing and realising their business strategy. You will be responsible for identifying and implementing innovative solutions, particularly AI solutions, to achieve clients’ business objectives.
You will increasingly design solutions that incorporate AI and automation capabilities. This includes:
- Identifying opportunities to adopt AI into new or existing digital services
- Leading AI solution design using modern patterns such as retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG), multi-agent orchestration, vector search, prompt chaining, and model fine‑tuning.
- Demonstrating hands-on ability to assess technical feasibility of AI concepts through rapid prototyping, MVPs, cloud-native AI services, or open-source models.
- Explaining the limitations, risks and trade‑offs of AI models and designing mitigation strategies such as grounding, evaluation frameworks, guardrails and system prompts.
- Supporting clients to understand the business value of AI capabilities and the organisational, data and process changes required for successful adoption.
A significant aspect of your role will be to prove the value of new propositions and solutions to clients through prototyping, technical feasibility assessment and piloting. Working with cloud-based solutions to quickly implement MVPs or Spikes to prove the value of specific aspects of a solution to our clients. You will need to have hands-on experience to effectively work with UX and Service Designers and developers to design and implement solution and support rapid iterative development.
YOUR PROFILE
- Must have experience of delivering Digital Solutions on one or more cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Comfortable working in an Agile Environment balancing time-to-value and iterative delivery with governance and control processes.
- Experience and knowledge to quickly build and test applications, try out cloud native services, work alongside UX/UI or front end developers to build a prototype without hesitation
- A good understanding of Cloud Services and Solution Components covering PaaS, SaaS, ServerLess Computing and Micro-service based solution.
- Experience with AI either through AI tools to assist Architecture or Architecture for AI
- Ability to communicate complex AI concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders, grounding explanations in business value and real-world risk.
- Understanding of cloud-native AI services (e.g., Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Google Gemini) and how they integrate with enterprise services, security patterns and APIs.
- Ability to design an end to end solution that is cost effective, increases digital footprint, increases completion rates of a transaction, understand user centric design, meets business KPIs and user satisfaction
- Ability to define, mobilise and lead managed architecture services
- Understanding of the current and future technology trends. You must have worked in delivering digital applications or services, DevOps and waterfall environments before and know the challenges to bring the best of old and new world
- Ability to develop our next generation of digital architects through formal line management and informal mentoring, coaching and learning development
