Pre Sales AI Architect
- England
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 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
- Lead discovery sessions to uncover business drivers, pain points, and AI opportunities.
- Map business requirements to AI/ML use cases and define value-focused solution strategies.
- Architect end-to-end AI/ML solutions including model design, data pipelines, MLOps, and cloud integration.
- Leverage platforms like Azure ML, AWS SageMaker, Google Vertex AI, Databricks, Hugging Face, and LangChain.
- Lead technical contributions to RFPs/RFIs, creating compelling narratives, architecture diagrams, and cost estimates.
- Shape bid strategy and differentiation using innovations in GenAI, LLMs, NLP, and computer vision.
- Present complex technical solutions to business audiences in clear, value-driven terms.
- Build demos or PoCs that validate solution design and inspire client trust.
- Partner with data scientists, engineers, and delivery teams to ensure solutions are feasible, scalable, and aligned with client needs.
- Support commercial modeling alongside sales, legal, and pricing teams.
- Monitor advances in AI (e.g., RAG, vector databases, prompt engineering, Responsible AI).
- Educate internal stakeholders and apply emerging tools to strengthen proposals.
- Strong experience in AI/ML solution design, with a focus on pre-sales, consulting, or client-facing roles.
- Proven ability to align business problems with AI-powered solutions in cloud environments (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
- Deep knowledge of AI/ML techniques (e.g., GenAI, supervised/unsupervised learning, LLMs, MLOps, embeddings, vector search).
- Hands-on experience with modern AI tools/platforms such as Databricks, LangChain, Azure ML, and Hugging Face.
- Skilled in developing technical artefacts (e.g., HLDs), estimating effort/cost, and contributing to winning proposals.
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills; able to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience collaborating in bid teams or with account executives, ideally in a consultancy or solutions environment.
- Awareness of data governance, security standards, and ethical AI considerations.
- Versatility to adapt solutions across industries such as public sector, utilities, health, and finance.
- Share in our success with our Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme, where employees collectively benefit from a share of our company's profits.
- Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme.
- Flexible/remote working, Version 1 is tremendously understanding of life events and people's individual circumstances and offer flexibility to help achieve a healthy work life balance.
- Financial Wellbeing initiatives including; Pension, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financial advice and an Employee Discount scheme.
- Employee Wellbeing schemes including Gym Discounts, Bike to Work, Fitness classes, Mindfulness Workshops, Employee Assistance Programme and much more. Generous holiday allowance, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies.
- Educational assistance, incentivised certifications, and accreditations, including AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat.
- Reward schemes including Version 1's Annual Excellence Awards & 'Call-Out' platform.
- Environment, Social and Community First initiatives allow you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion and belonging schemes.