Job Specifications
Who We Are
At VML, we are a beacon of innovation and growth in an ever-evolving world. Our heritage is built upon a century of combined expertise, where creativity meets technology, and diverse perspectives ignite inspiration. With the merger of VMLY&R and Wunderman Thompson, we have forged a new path as a growth partner that is part creative agency, part consultancy, and part technology powerhouse.
Our global family now encompasses over 30,000 employees across 150+ offices in 64 markets, each contributing to a culture that values connection, belonging, and the power of differences. Our expertise spans the entire customer journey, offering deep insights in communications, commerce, consultancy, CRM, CX, data, production, and technology. We deliver end-to-end solutions that result in revolutionary work.
Cloud Architect required to join Satalia our AI division at VML Enterprise Solutions
The Opportunity
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.
What You'll Be Doing
Creating enterprise-quality solutions, with extensive experience and familiarity with how enterprise software solutions fit into a wider technical landscape
Creating serverless solutions to execute data science and ML models
Creating cloud IaC deployment code
Guiding a team of Optimisers, Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Cloud Engineers and QA Engineers.
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
What We Want From You
Having an excellent understanding of Java, Typescript and/or Python, currently our core cloud languages
Industry experience with an Infrastructure-as-Code platform (e.g. Cloudformation, Terraform)
A strong understanding of both serverless development and containerisation approaches to deploying software to the cloud
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.
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
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
Experience of creating robust CI/CD pipelines that fully automate testing and release processes
If You Know Some Of This, Even Better
A strong understanding of event-driven architectures
Working knowledge of Rust
Experience with or knowledge of data engineering platforms and principles
Experience with or knowledge of data science platforms and technologies
What We Can Offer You
Alongside the opportunity to work with some of the most exciting brands around the world, we'll also prioritise your career development and help you grow your skills. We'll empower you to make a difference, allow you to be yourself, and respect who you are.
Opportunity to work at the forefront of AI technology
A chance to contribute to groundbreaking commerce AI solutions
Competitive Benefits package
Remote working and much more!
Satalia, a VML Enterprise Solutions Company, is a community of individuals devoted to working on diverse and challenging projects, allowing you to flex your technical skills whilst working with
About the Company
VML Enterprise Solutions brings together all of VML’s technology and data groups to form a single operating unit that services complex business challenges using the agency’s combined consulting, data, technology, and innovation capabilities.
Over 7,000 employees across VML’s key offices and local markets around the world contribute to the Enterprise Solutions offering to deliver on the increasing market demand for applications of AI, technology-driven transformation, and operational efficiencies brought to life via robust t...
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