AI Solution Architect

Company Description

Version 1 has celebrated over 29 years in Technology Services and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver solutions that drive customer success. Our expertise enables our customers to navigate the rapidly changing Digital‑First world we live in. We foster strong partnerships with leading technology giants including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, Out Systems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services.

• UK & Ireland’s premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner
• 3300+ strong, €350/£300m revenue business
• 10+ years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK
• Best Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland by GPTW
• Best Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK by GPTW

We’re an award‑winning employer reflecting how our employees are at the very heart of Version 1 and what we do. We’re a core‑values driven company, we hire people who share our values, and we reward those who display and foster them. It’s deeply embedded within our DNA. Invest in us and we’ll invest in you!

As an AI Solution Architect, you’ll work with our government, financial services, and private sector clients to design and deliver AI solutions that solve real business problems. You’ll bring together AI capabilities, sound solution design, and practical engineering experience to create production‑grade systems that deliver measurable value — not proofs of concept that gather dust. Your work sits at the intersection of software engineering and AI, focusing on building scalable, secure systems that consume and orchestrate AI services rather than training foundation models from scratch.

One week you might be designing a RAG architecture for a government department’s knowledge‑management platform, the next you could be working with a financial services client to integrate agentic workflows into their existing operations, or guiding a delivery team through implementing responsible AI patterns on a live service. You’ll establish architecture patterns and standards that accelerate AI adoption across our client base, embedding governance frameworks and security controls into solution designs from the outset.

Whether that’s evaluating the right AI platform for a client’s use case, designing data pipelines to support model deployment, or presenting your solution approach to an architectural review board, you’ll bring both hands‑on AI engineering experience and sound architectural judgement to every engagement.

Your background in solution architecture and building digital services means you understand how enterprise systems work in practice — and you’ve applied that foundation to designing and delivering AI‑powered solutions  know how to move from experimentation to production — designing integration patterns for AI services, building reliable pipelines, and ensuring solutions meet the non‑functional requirements that enterprise clients demand around performance, security, and compliance.

You’ll bring systems thinking that connects AI architectural decisions to broader service and business contexts, combined with a strong understanding of responsible AI principles including bias mitigation, transparency, and appropriate human oversight. You collaborate effectively with diverse teams including data scientists, software engineers, product managers, and senior business stakeholders, translating complex AI concepts into language that supports informed decision‑making at all levels.

As part of our central architecture team, you’ll work alongside experienced Technology Principals and Solution Architects who share your drive to solve complex challenges. This gives you a strong support network to collaborate with, learn from different perspectives, and tackle problems together. AI is moving fast, and we recognise that staying current matters — you’ll contribute to and shape our AI architectural approaches, share knowledge through internal sessions and technical documentation, and help build reference architectures that the wider organisation can draw on.

Your expertise helps our clients adopt AI with confidence, building solutions that are not only technically sound…