An exciting opportunity for a passionate HPC Architect to join a unique, multi‑national Information Management function. The role focuses on the future of software‑defined data centres and open‑source technologies, supporting our engineering community in a dynamic, fast‑paced development environment. The HPC Architect will define the long‑term roadmap of HPC environments within MBDA, ensuring alignment with business objectives in collaboration with business areas.
Responsibilities
* Define the long‑term HPC architecture roadmap aligned with organisational goals.
* Evaluate and select technologies across compute, storage, networking, and cloud HPC.
* Establish standards, reference architectures, and best practices.
* Architect large‑scale HPC clusters, including CPU, GPU, and accelerator‑based systems.
* Design high‑performance networking (InfiniBand, RDMA, high‑speed Ethernet).
* Define storage architecture (parallel file systems, object storage, tiered storage).
* Provide technical leadership and oversight to HPC engineering and operations teams.
* Ensure systems are designed for optimal throughput, latency, and scalability.
* Lead performance benchmarking, capacity planning, and workload modelling.
* Identify and eliminate architectural bottlenecks.
* Define strategies for workload orchestration (SLURM, Kubernetes for HPC, etc.).
* Guide software stack design (MPI, CUDA, compilers, libraries, containers).
* Ensure reproducibility, portability, and performance of workloads.
* Collaborate closely with team members and wider stakeholders across the organisation.
* Engage with multi‑national and multicultural teams to drive capability development cross‑functionally.
Salary: Up to £75,000 depending on experience.
Dynamic (hybrid) working: 2–3 days per week onsite as required by workload classification.
Security clearance: Entering this role requires DV clearance; all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS).
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