Cloud Architect

Role type: Perm

Location: UK

Preferred start date: ASAP

LIFE AS A SATALIAN

As an organisation, we push the boundaries of data science, optimisation and artificial intelligence to solve the most complex problems in industry. Satalia, a Wunderman Thompson Company, is a community of individuals devoted to working on diverse and challenging projects, allowing you to flex your technical skills whilst working with a tight knit team of high performing colleagues.

Led by our founder (who is also WPP’s Chief AI Officer), Satalia’s ambition is to become a decentralised organisation of the future. Today this involves developing tools and processes to liberate and automate manual repetitive tasks, with a focus on freedom, transparency and trust. At the core of our thinking is an approach to wellbeing and inclusivity. We unpack human behaviour and unpick prejudice to ensure a safe and inviting environment. We offer true flexible working and allow our employees to find the working practice that makes them most productive. At Satalia, your opinion matters and your achievements are celebrated.

THE ROLE

We are investing massively in developing next generation generative AI tools, including workstreams covering text, image, video, audio, and research. We are building large scale, enterprise grade solutions and serving these innovations to our clients and WPP agency partners.

ROLE DESCRIPTION

You will be responsible for creating enterprise quality AI, ML and Data Science based solutions. You will be involved in technology selection, API design, and establishing core patterns within our products and client projects. You will consider the functional and non-functional requirements to inform these decisions and lead our development team in implementing them. You will work with our world class Data Science and Data Engineering teams to provide robust, high quality, performant cloud based solutions for our customers.

This is not a role for someone who doesn’t love development. Our technical architects are expected to prove solutions and contribute to the development team, as well as reviewing code and driving improvement to our development practice and processes. At the same time, you need to be a great communicator: the role includes direct interaction with our clients and business stakeholders, which are a mixture of technical and non-technical audiences.

The world of AI is evolving at a staggering pace, and we keep our knowledge fresh by continually looking for fresh technologies and sharing what we’ve learned. As an architect you would be expected to exemplify this both by bringing new ideas to our projects, but also listening to and assessing ideas from the team.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Writing enterprise quality solutions, with extensive experience and familiarity with how enterprise software solutions fit into a wider technical landscape
• Creating cloud IaC deployment code
• Creating serverless solutions to execute data science and ML models
• Leading a team comprised of Data Science, Data Engineering, Cloud Engineering and QA
• Understanding and relating customer/business needs to the technical solutions we create
• Liaising with the customer, product owners and business analysts to ensure that the work we are doing is correct and architecturally sound
• Making technology and approach choices to meet NFRs whilst delivering good value for money

MINIMUM SKILLS

• Having an excellent understanding of Typescript and/or Python, currently our core cloud languages
• Experience writing enterprise quality solutions, with extensive experience and familiarity with how enterprise software solutions fit into a wider technical landscape
• Having a solid understanding of traditional Design Patterns and the ability to adapt these to the AI world
• Having in-depth knowledge of at least one cloud platform (e.g. GCP, AWS, Azure), including an understanding of appropriate technologies for a given use case.
• Being a strong proponent for rigorous quality processes, automated testing and IaC principles
• Having excellent written, spoken and diagrammatic communication skills, with the ability to convey technical and abstract principles to technical and non-technical audiences
• Industry experience with an Infrastructure-as-Code platform (e.g. Cloudformation, Terraform)
• Experience of creating robust CI/CD pipelines that fully automate testing and release processes
• A strong understanding of both serverless development and containerisation approaches to deploying software to the cloud

NICE TO HAVE QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS

• A strong understanding of event driven architectures
• Terraform experience
• Good working knowledge of Azure
• Experience with or knowledge of data engineering platforms and principles
• Experience with or knowledge of data science platforms and technologies
• Working knowledge of Rust

If you feel like you don’t tick all our boxes but know you’d make a fantastic Cloud Architect at Satalia, please do apply! We know the value of transferable skills and experiences and would love to hear about these in your cover letter. As an equal opportunity employer we welcome applications that reflect the diversity of our wider community. Please let us know at any time if you require reasonable adjustments to your interview process and feel free to let us know the pronouns you use

WE OFFER

• Development- annual development budget to upskill yourself
• Benefits -enhanced pension, life assurance, income protection, private healthcare
• Annual bonus - when Satalia does well, we all do well
• Remote working - café, bedroom, beach - wherever works
• Impactful projects - focus on bringing meaningful social and environmental change
• People oriented culture - wellbeing is a priority, as is being a nice person
• Truly flexible working hours - school pick up, volunteering, gym - no problem
• Generous leave - 27 days’ holiday plus bank holidays and enhanced family leave
• Transparent and open culture - you will be listened to and heard

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