4 lead ai architect jobs found in Manchester, Greater Manchester

Contract, outside IR35. Manchester-based client, starting as soon as possible. The engagement You'll lead engineering on a high-volume online marketplace, part-way through a major, multi-year technology transformation. A version 2 build is underway, and a move to AWS is under active evaluation as part of that. The current client-facing platform runs on PHP and Laravel. The direction of travel is a service-based architecture built in TypeScript and Node, with PHP likely retained in places. You'll set technical direction across that shift while keeping delivery moving. You'll need to be hands-on and broad: someone who understands cloud, architecture, data, auth, front-end and APIs, and has built service-based platforms in AWS before. In an older structure this person would have carried an architect title. This is a demanding, fast-paced environment. You'll need to be productive quickly without a long ramp. Location and basis Our client is based in Manchester....

Tech Lead (AWS / TypeScript) Contract, outside IR35. Manchester-based client, starting as soon as possible. The engagement You'll lead engineering on a high-volume online marketplace, part-way through a major, multi-year technology transformation. A version 2 build is underway, and a move to AWS is under active evaluation as part of that. The current client-facing platform runs on PHP and Laravel. The direction of travel is a service-based architecture built in TypeScript and Node, with PHP likely retained in places. You'll set technical direction across that shift while keeping delivery moving. You'll need to be hands-on and broad: someone who understands cloud, architecture, data, auth, front-end and APIs, and has built service-based platforms in AWS before. In an older structure this person would have carried an architect title. This is a demanding, fast-paced environment. You'll need to be productive quickly without a long ramp. Location and basis Our...

Tech Lead (AWS / TypeScript) Contract, outside IR35. Manchester-based client, starting as soon as possible. The engagement You'll lead engineering on a high-volume online marketplace, part-way through a major, multi-year technology transformation. A version 2 build is underway, and a move to AWS is under active evaluation as part of that. The current client-facing platform runs on PHP and Laravel. The direction of travel is a service-based architecture built in TypeScript and Node, with PHP likely retained in places. You'll set technical direction across that shift while keeping delivery moving. You'll need to be hands-on and broad: someone who understands cloud, architecture, data, auth, front-end and APIs, and has built service-based platforms in AWS before. In an older structure this person would have carried an architect title. This is a demanding, fast-paced environment. You'll need to be productive quickly without a long ramp. Location and basis Our...

Solutions Architect The engagement We're building out a team to work with a client on a major data and cloud migration for their marketplace platform. You'll be the Solutions Architect on it: owning the target-state data architecture on AWS, and the plan to get there without disrupting a live platform running at serious volume. That means owning the migration end to end: how the data moves, in what order, how it's cleaned and reconciled along the way, and how you cut over with as little downtime as possible. The platform This is a genuinely large-scale marketplace. Very few platforms handle a product catalogue or transaction volume at this level. The roadmap includes agentic AI workflows built into the platform, retail media integrated directly into the marketplace, and infrastructure work targeting cost and performance at high volume. A lot of this is being attempted at volumes that have rarely been tested in a marketplace before, so the work leans research-led...