Solutions Architect - Manager (AI)

Location: Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, London, or Manchester, United Kingdom; London, Ontario, Canada. Hybrid working is split between the office, home, and client site.

Company

hirify.global delivers managed operational solutions and technology-powered services for organisations worldwide through its Operate business.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end architecture for AI-enabled products, platforms, and services from discovery through live service.
• Provide technical leadership to multidisciplinary engineering teams and guide design decisions and trade-offs.
• Manage architectural risks, constraints, dependencies, technical debt, security controls, and non-functional requirements.
• Design responsible, production-ready AI solutions with evaluation and monitoring for quality, safety, privacy, security, explainability, traceability, and human oversight.
• Develop reusable architecture patterns, reference architectures, and blueprints with Enterprise Architecture, Security, Engineering, Data, and Platform teams.
• Support proposals, RFPs, RFIs, and customer-facing discussions while mentoring technical practitioners.

Requirements

• Experience designing and delivering enterprise solutions end-to-end, from discovery and solution shaping through engineering delivery and live service.
• Strong architectural judgement and the ability to manage ambiguity, technical trade-offs, risks, and non-functional requirements.
• Experience with cloud-native architecture and engineering, ideally Azure or a comparable cloud platform.
• Understanding of APIs, integration, security, identity, DevSecOps, observability, and resilience.
• Experience designing AI solutions involving AI models, retrieval/RAG, agents, and orchestration, including responsible AI, evaluation, performance, security, and cost considerations.
• Practical technology delivery experience in areas such as AI platforms, software development, cloud modernisation, distributed technologies, or productionising AI solutions.
• Experience providing technical leadership, influencing senior stakeholders, coaching technical teams, and contributing to solution shaping, proposals, RFPs, or RFIs.

Culture & Benefits

• Empowered flexibility with a working week split between office, home, and client site.
• Private medical cover and 24/7 access to a qualified virtual GP.
• Six volunteering days per year.
• Inclusive culture with workplace and recruitment adjustments available where needed.