At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead technical delivery, coach teams, and shape innovative solutions for high-performance analytics.
- Company: KX, a leader in data and AI-driven innovation for top global enterprises.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, career growth, and the chance to work with cutting-edge technology.
- Other info: Join a dynamic team with opportunities for leadership and professional development.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by transforming AI delivery strategies and driving customer success.
- Qualifications: Experience in cloud architecture, DevOps, and high-performance analytics solutions.
The predicted salary is between 90000 - 110000 £ per year.
About KX 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 Dev Ops.
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 existing KDB-X mastery is beneficial but not a prerequisite.
Experience with cloud architecture, distributed systems, Dev Ops, 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 Dev Ops.
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
Principal Architect employer: KX
KX is an exceptional employer that fosters a collaborative and dynamic work culture, particularly for the Treasury & Inter-company Accounts Assistant role. With a hybrid working model based in Newry, Northern Ireland, employees benefit from flexible arrangements while being part of a supportive team that values accuracy and attention to detail. The company prioritises employee growth through continuous learning opportunities and offers a vibrant environment where individuals can thrive in their finance careers.
