AI Solution Architect - Senior Manager/Associate Director Capital Markets

<p><b>AI Solution Architect - Senior Manager/Associate Director Capital Markets</b></p> <p><b>Location:</b> Edinburgh</p> <p><b>Working pattern:</b> Hybrid</p> <p><b>Salary:</b> Compensation aligned to experience and seniority</p> <p><b>Ref:</b> J13118</p> <p>Senior AI Solution Architects are required to support the design, implementation and scaling of advanced AI solutions within financial services and capital markets environments.</p> <p>This role would suit an experienced professional with a strong background in AI, cloud and data architecture, with experience designing enterprise AI solutions and translating business requirements into scalable technical architectures. You will play a key role in shaping AI architecture strategy, leading technical teams and supporting organisations as they move from strategy and experimentation through to enterprise deployment.</p> <p>You will work closely with AI Engineers, Data Scientists, Enterprise Architects, MLOps teams, business stakeholders and senior leadership to design, deliver and scale AI solutions that drive measurable business outcomes.</p> Key responsibilities: <ul> <li>Translating business objectives into AI architecture strategies, roadmaps and scalable solution designs</li> <li>Designing and implementing end to end AI and ML architectures across enterprise environments</li> <li>Defining scalable, performant and cost optimised deployment patterns across cloud, containerised and GPU enabled environments</li> <li>Supporting AI implementation programmes from proof of concept through to enterprise deployment and optimisation</li> <li>Evaluating and selecting technologies across open source and commercial platforms</li> <li>Designing and integrating AI solutions into existing enterprise systems and applications</li> <li>Working with AI Engineers, Data Scientists and technical teams to support AI delivery and scaling initiatives</li> <li>Supporting AI governance, security, risk and regulatory considerations throughout the delivery lifecycle</li> <li>Supporting architecture governance, technical review boards and design authorities</li> <li>Building relationships with technical and business stakeholders across large scale transformation programmes</li> <li>Producing solution design documentation, implementation plans and technical proposals</li> <li>Providing technical leadership and mentoring within multidisciplinary teams</li> </ul> Experience Required: <ul> <li>Experience designing AI, ML or modern data architectures within enterprise environments</li> <li>Strong understanding of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, Databricks or similar technologies</li> <li>Experience architecting scalable AI and ML solutions across serverless, containerised or GPU enabled environments</li> <li>Experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, embeddings, semantic search and RAG patterns</li> <li>Exposure to vector databases and agent frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph or similar technologies</li> <li>Understanding of MLOps, LLMOps and model lifecycle management principles</li> <li>Experience designing APIs and integrating AI solutions into enterprise environments</li> <li>Strong understanding of modern data architectures and platform design principles</li> <li>Experience presenting architectural designs to technical and business stakeholders</li> <li>Financial services experience within capital markets or broader banking environments</li> </ul> <p>This is a strong opportunity for an AI architecture professional who wants to work on high impact AI and data transformation programmes within complex financial services environments.</p><img src="https://www.jobg8.com/Tracking.aspx?BYYZSi1VQS9%2fbFoCVPsGYJ6QUfIKaQV5b" width="0" height="0" />