Principal Solutions Architect - AI customer facing products
£875-£900/day Inside IR35
6 Month Contract
London (preferred) | Bristol or Manchester considered
Up to 2 days per week on site
I'm supporting a search for a senior technical leader to head Technical AI Solutions Architecture for a major UK Government AI programme, responsible for shaping and delivering AI-powered digital products used by millions of citizens.
This role would suit a Principal Solutions Architect, Senior Technical Architect, AI Solutions Architect, Head of Technical Architecture, Head of Solutions Architecture with a strong background delivering large-scale digital products.
Key Requirements Extensive experience as a Technical Architect or Solutions Architect (not Enterprise Architecture focused).
Proven track record designing, building and launching user-facing digital products , apps and web services.
Experience leading architecture functions and managing teams of architects (4-8+ people).
Strong experience delivering AI-enabled products , ideally where AI functionality has reached end users rather than purely internal/back-office use cases. Example: website and mobile application chat bots
Deep AWS expertise, including: AWS Serverless technologies
AWS Bedrock
Cloud-native architecture
Strong software engineering and application architecture background.
Experience defining technical strategy, governance, standards and best practice across complex organisations.
Knowledge of modern engineering practices including DevOps, CI/CD, TDD and Agile delivery.
Experience building secure services, ideally aligned to NCSC Secure by Design principles and/or Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) .
Ability to operate at organisational leadership level while remaining technically credible.
Ideal Background Delivery of products at national or enterprise scale .
Multiple major product launches/releases with clear ownership of technical architecture decisions.
AI, machine learning or data-intensive product delivery experience.
Public sector experienc...
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