Solution Architect - Senior Manager (AI)

Location: Belfast, Birmingham, Edinburgh, London or Manchester, United Kingdom; working week split between 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 and solution shaping through engineering delivery, release and transition to live service.
• Provide technical leadership to multidisciplinary engineering teams, review design decisions and resolve technical trade-offs.
• Manage architectural risks, constraints, dependencies and technical debt while aligning solutions with non-functional requirements, security controls and architecture standards.
• Design responsible, production-ready AI solutions with evaluation and monitoring for quality, performance, safety, data quality, privacy, security, explainability, traceability and human oversight.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Security, Engineering, Data and Platform teams to develop reusable patterns, reference architectures and blueprints.
• Communicate architecture decisions to senior stakeholders, support RFPs, RFIs and proposals, and mentor architects, engineers and other 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 handle ambiguity, technical trade-offs, risks and non-functional requirements while keeping solutions practical and deliverable.
• Experience with cloud-native architecture and engineering, ideally using Azure or a comparable cloud platform.
• Understanding of APIs, integration, security, identity, DevSecOps, observability and resilience.
• Experience designing AI solutions, including knowledge of AI models, retrieval/RAG, agents and orchestration, as well as responsible AI, evaluation, performance, security and cost considerations.
• Practical technology delivery experience involving AI platforms, software development, cloud modernisation, distributed technologies or taking AI solutions into production.
• Experience providing technical leadership, influencing senior stakeholders, supporting and coaching technical teams, and contributing to solution shaping, proposals, RFPs or RFIs.

Culture & Benefits

• Empowered flexibility with work across office, home and client sites.
• Private medical cover and 24/7 access to a qualified virtual GP.
• Six volunteering days per year.
• Inclusive culture focused on belonging, diverse perspectives and professional development.