Lead Architect AI / ML
£85,000 to 95,000 GBP
Bonus
Hybrid WORKING
Location: Manchester, North West – United Kingdom Type: Permanent
Role: Lead Architect – AI & ML
Work Type & Location: Hybrid – Greater Manchester
Role Type: Permanent
Start Date: Immediate
Anson McCade are proud to partner with a leading global institution known for investing heavily in digital transformation and AI innovation. We're looking for a talented and visionary Lead Architect – AI & ML to play a critical role in shaping their next-generation AI-powered customer experiences.
As a Lead Architect – AI & ML, you will:
• Design, develop, and deliver cutting-edge AI/ML solutions to complex business problems.
• Partner closely with data scientists, engineers, and business teams to create scalable, cloud-native AI architectures.
• Define workload placement strategies, including the use of containerisation, serverless, and elastic compute.
• Champion best practices in security (defence in depth, blast radius reduction) and resilient design.
• Provide architectural leadership across multiple squads while balancing delivery, risk, and governance.
• Stay ahead of emerging AI trends and technologies, ensuring the platform evolves in line with best practice.
• Mentor engineering teams and contribute to shaping the broader AI architecture vision.
A successful Lead Architect – AI & ML will have:
• Proven experience delivering large-scale architecture in complex, enterprise environments.
• Strong exposure to AI/ML technologies, cloud platforms (preferably Azure or AWS), and modern software delivery.
• Deep understanding of architecture governance, security, privacy, and risk management.
• Experience influencing across cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders.
• Exceptional communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ideally, background in financial services, platform architecture, or digital product engineering.
Lead Architect – AI & ML Key Benefits:
• Up to £94,000 base salary
• Annual bonus
• Pension, private healthcare & other corporate benefits
• Hybrid working – 2–3 days per week onsite in Greater Manchester
Not sure if you tick every box for this Lead AI Architect role? No problem — send over your CV anyway, and we can explore other relevant opportunities. Feel free to contact me at adam.quigley@ansonmccade.com or call +44 (0)20 7780 6706.
Reference: AMC-AQU- BAI
Postcode: Manchester (M1)
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