Junior Solutions Architect

Job title: Junior Solutions Architect

Location: Edinburgh

Hybrid role working 2 days a week in the office

Salary: £40,000 to £50,000 pa

Contract: 6-month fixed term contract

Overview

Our market-leading financial services client is seeking a motivated, detail-focused Junior Solutions Architect to join the Business Transaction Banking division.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategy & Design: Define end-to-end architectures for AI, ML, data, and agentic AI solutions running on Google Cloud Platform. Ensure alignment to platform strategy, technology standards, and security controls.
• Technical: Deliver high-quality, secure solutions using GCP cloud-native services and event-driven patterns. Architect GCP workloads using BigQuery, Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud Storage, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Vertex AI, Looker, and Cloud Composer.
• Cloud, Platform & Integration: Apply understanding of Kubernetes, service mesh, ingress, workload identity, and network/security boundaries.
• Design Patterns: Design and implement API and service integration patterns using Istio, Apigee, and modern microservice standards.
• Governance & Compliance: Ensure solutions meet strict regulatory, risk management, and security standards.
• Collaboration: Work with engineering, data science, and business teams to translate requirements into actionable, high-level designs.

Skills and Experience

• Experience using cloud platforms such as GCP or Azure.
• Data & AI knowledge: understanding of modern data architecture, machine learning, and AI tools.
• Experience in large-scale data migrations with ETL toolsets.
• Knowledge of designing orchestrations and technical patterns for agentic AI, large language model-based systems, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and workflow orchestration.
• Experience communicating technical concepts in design forums representing the Lab’s technical direction.
• Great attention to detail, analytical mindset, and a methodological approach to completing tasks.
• Resilient, confident, professional, and able to work effectively with multiple teams.

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