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

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

As a Solutions Architect, you will be responsible for designing scalable, highly secure, and resilient data and AI systems, while driving strategic initiatives including Machine Learning, and GCP cloud migration. This role bridges business needs with technical execution, involving stakeholder management, cloud-native architecture development, and ensuring compliance with data governance, security, and ethical AI standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategy & Design: Define end to end architectures for AI, ML, data, and agentic AI solutions running on Google Cloud Platform. Ensuring 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 services such as 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/Azure
• Data & AI Knowledge. An understanding of modern data architecture, Machine Learning, and AI tools. Experience in largescale data migrations with ETL toolset.
• 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 uses a methodological approach to complete tasks.
• Resilient Confident, professional, and able to work effectively with multiple teams.

You will be a valued member of our Adecco Emerging Talent function working onsite with a market-leading organisation, initially, the assignment is 12 months with scope for extension in the future, so you need to be someone with a permanent mindset!

If you have the experience and desire to work for a well-respected organisation offering personal and professional support, growth and development, then you could be a perfect fit for the team and we want to hear from you - APPLY NOW.

Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly.

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