Senior Manager, AI Solution Architect, SG&A, Engineering, AI & Data, Technology & Transformation

Basic information

Location
Manchester
Business Line
Technology \& Transformation
Job Type
Permanent / FTC
Date published
03\-Jun\-2026
Req \#
23760

Job description

Connect to your Industry

Do you want to be at the heart of some of the biggest and most ambitious AI \& Data projects?

Technology \& Transformation: How do you make intelligent, future\-proof decisions in a world where change is the one constant? That's exactly what you'll help our clients to do. You'll build trusted relationships with business stakeholders \- and use the most exciting new technologies available \- to create data\-driven programmes that transform their organisations.

Your advice will help clients position their organisations to succeed in an ever\-evolving marketplace.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

Connect to your opportunity

Take your career to the next level by joining one of the world's best and most recognized professional services firms. Within Deloitte's AI\&D operating unit, we imagine, deliver and run innovative solutions to help our clients solve complex challenges and maximize the value of their data. At Deloitte, you will be able to build your career, access the best training and learning opportunities, and develop new skills and hone existing ones. We work for a huge variety of interesting, international, and world\-leading clients on exciting next generation technology\-enabled projects. We are looking for candidates with AI/GenAI Architect based expertise to join us, working in fast\-paced teams with other highly talented, fun and motivated colleagues.

We encourage consideration of flexible ways of working, both formal and informal arrangements that allow for the best outcomes for our people and our clients. If this opportunity is of interest to you with some flexibilities, please do discuss it with us.

Your role

As a practitioner in AI\&D, you are responsible for delivering AI Solution Architecture projects. You are encouraged to devise innovative solutions to help our clients address their biggest data challenges including developing modern analytics platforms.

We are seeking a talented and experienced AI/GenAI Architect to join our team. In this role, you will lead the delivery of GenAI projects from conception to production and provide technical pre\-sales support for new opportunities. You will work closely with clients, project managers, solution architects, engineers and data scientists to ensure project goals are met on time, on budget, and to the highest standard.

In your role, you will have responsibility for deliverable and client stakeholder relationships and will be delivering solutions for our clients using agile methodologies. You will often be working in multi\-disciplinary teams across a range of industries, subject matters and locations.

As a Senior Manager, you will play a critical role in leading, defining, designing, and optimising the end\-to\-end functional data journey for our diverse portfolio of clients’ functions. You will work closely with senior stakeholders, translating business vision and requirements into robust, scalable, and functionally sound data and technology solutions.

Your role could include and may need you to:

• Lead the delivery of generative AI projects especially from an architecture perspective from inception to production, ensuring all project goals are met on time, on budget, and to the highest standard.


• Work closely with clients to understand their requirements and objectives and translate these into actionable project plans and roadmaps.


• Collaborate with project managers, solution architects, engineers, and data scientists to ensure project tasks are being executed and delivered on time and within budget.


• Review and provide feedback on project deliverables to ensure quality and accuracy.


• Identify and mitigate project risks, and escalate issues as needed to ensure project success.


• Communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels of the organisation to ensure project progress is understood and milestones are achieved.


• Provide technical pre\-sales support, including participating in client meetings, preparing technical proposals, and presenting solutions to clients.


• Stay up to date with the latest generative AI technologies, trends, and best practices.

Candidates must have experience in AI/ML Engineering involving some or all the following areas:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.


• Experience leading the delivery of both generative \& traditional AI projects across the end\-to\-end SDLC process.


• Proven experience in leading development teams across different geographical locations using offshore or near\-shore delivery models.


• Proficiency in project management methodologies, including Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall.


• Strong leadership and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross\- functional teams and stakeholders.


• Excellent problem\-solving, critical thinking, and analytical skills.


• Proficiency in object orientated programming languages such as Python, Java, or Scala.


• Contributing to the solution architecture of an enterprise data lake to cater to a client's data storage needs for structured and unstructured data, to enable analytics across global clients using modern data tools like MS Fabric, Databricks, or similar


• Designing, architecting and implementing a real\-time data solution using streaming ingestion and delivering real time analytics, to help our clients respond to customer behaviour as it happens using Confluent, Apache Kafka, Spark, Flink or similar


• Ability to conduct a full technical assessment of existing platform as\-is architecture and identify the to\-be landscape


• Providing subject matter expertise and collaborating closely with data engineers to translate architectural designs into efficient and maintainable data pipelines and solutions on cloud data platforms using native and open\-source technologies.


• Proven experience working in agile delivery teams with DevOps ways of working to continuously deliver iterative deployments with experience in using Git, Jira, Confluence, or similar


• Building and maintaining strong relationships with key technology vendors through Community of Practices, staying abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies and bringing the learnings back into both Crafts and OU capability.


• Develop and iterate new and/or existing thought leadership content around data design, architecture and engineering like collateral and playbooks on KX, improving our artefacts and strategies.


• Knowledge of generative AI architectural patterns including RAG \& fine tuning.


• Experience training \& deploying machine learning models using a range of techniques (e.g. Classification, Regression, Neural Networks, etc).


• Experience with developing and deploying applications in cloud environments, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.


• Understanding of how to design and implement RESTful APIs for generative AI applications.


• Familiarity with web development technologies, such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and React.


• Proficiency in database management systems and SQL.


• Experience developing ETL pipelines using distributed computing and parallel processing frameworks, such as Spark.


• Knowledge of Data Architecture \& Data Modelling techniques.


• Experience working with modern data \& AI platforms such as Databricks, Dataiku, DataRobot, etc.


• Knowledge of containerization platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes.


• Familiarity with software development tools, such as JIRA, Confluence, and Git.

Distinctive thinking, deep expertise, innovation and collaborative working. That’s what connects us. That’s what makes us Deloitte. If you want to help solve some of the biggest tech and transformational challenges around, join us. Together, we’ll make an impact that matters.

Engineering, AI and Data

We lead transformation at the heart of our clients; re\-engineering the core of our clients’ organisations, helping to unleash growth, and creating better futures for their customers, citizens and employees.

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