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Join us as an Enterprise Architect Lead, Data Science & AI

• Join a team that is shaping the future of the bank’s data science and AI architecture and governance and help us unlock the full potential of our data
• You'll be defining the intentional architecture for your assigned scope in order to ensure that the current architecture being delivered by engineers best supports the enterprise and its long term strategy
• With valuable exposure, you’ll be building and leveraging relationships with colleagues across the bank to ensure commercially focused decisions and to create long term value for the bank

What you'll do

We’re embarking on a new and exciting phase of the bank’s transformation agenda, data science and AI architecture play a crucial role in achieving our mission to simplify, reduce risk and enable customer engagement and personalisation. Supporting the development of architectures and roadmaps of innovative data solutions, leveraging data science and AI, is critical to driving simplification, improving data efficiency, and ensuring data risk stays within tolerance.

In this key role, you’ll be defining and communicating the current, resultant and target state architecture for your enterprise solutions using data science & AI. You’ll also be making sure that the architecture links to, and is informed by, our overall strategy and architecture, and produces the architecture outcomes.

We’ll look to you to influence the development of business strategies at an organisational level, identifying transformational opportunities for our businesses and technology areas associated with both new and existing technologies. You’ll manage and mentor a team of specialist and senior data architects dedicated to supporting architectures for solutions using data science and AI fostering a collaborative, high performance culture that encourages innovation.

As well as this, you’ll:

• Translate architecture roadmaps into packages of work that allow frequent incremental delivery of value to be included in product backlog
• Define, create and maintain architecture models, roadmaps, standards and outcomes, using architecture strategies to ensure alignment to adjacent and higher level model
• Work closely with business owners, portfolio managers, product managers and release managers to define the target intentional architecture
• Lead complex and technically challenging architectural transformations, coordinating design and platform teams across domains
• Stay abreast of the commercial and emerging data technology offerings that may influence current and target Data Science and AI architectures and their governance
• Seek out and utilise continuous feedback, fostering adaptive design and engineering practices to drive the collaboration of programmes and teams around a common technical vision

The skills you'll need

We’re looking for someone with a background in defining business and application architectures and roadmaps for data science and AI based solutions. You’ll bring expert knowledge of enterprise data architecture, solution data architecture, architecture for data science and AI with knowledge of industry architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or ArchiMate.

In addition, you’ll be a thought leader of architecture for data science and AI solutions and enterprise design in the bank influencing business and technology teams. You’ll have excellent communication skills with the ability to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to colleagues up to senior leadership level, along with a good understanding of Agile methodologies with experience of working in an Agile team.

You’ll also have:

• Experience of developing, syndicating and communicating architectures, designs and proposals for action
• Experience of working with business solution vendors, technology vendors and products within the market
• Experience as an enterprise architect with focus on architecture advisory along with experience in AI or ML and Data Science solutions and patterns
• Experience with developing, data exploration, visualisation and statistical analysis technologies
• Experience with developing, data exploration, visualisation and statistical analysis technologies
• An understanding of neural networking, deep learning and LLM architectures
• Knowledge of Data Science lifecycle, MLOps, model management and automation
• Knowledge of data, architecture frameworks such as DAMA and DCAM as well as data related regulations such as GDPR, CCPA,PCI DSS and BCBS 239
• Architecture knowledge of Tableau, AWS data stack, SageMaker, Python, EMR or Spark, Kafka and Snowflake

Job Description

Corporate Services

Engineer – Street Lighting Design
Road Services, Bankhead Depot

Salary: £37,626 - £44,257
Hours: 36 per week

An opportunity has arisen within the Council’s Street Lighting Design Team for the post of Engineer, based at Bankhead Depot.

The post is a key position within the Roads and Infrastructure function of Operational Services, supporting the effective delivery of the Council’s street lighting service.

The Engineer will initiate, develop and manage street lighting maintenance and improvement projects.

We are seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic individual to undertake this challenging but highly rewarding role. The successful candidate must have extensive experience and a proven track record of delivering complex projects on budget and to challenging deadlines.

In addition, the post holder will be required to develop and maintain effective relationships with a diverse range of people and organisations. Contacts will include senior colleagues across the Council, elected members, external contractors, public utility companies as well as the general public.

Full information is given in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

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Grade UE07: £40,247.00 - £47,874.00 per annum

School of Engineering/College of Science & Engineering

Institute/Discipline: Integrated Micro and Nano Systems

Full-time: 35 hours per week

Fixed-term: for up to 5 years



The Opportunity:

This position is affiliated with the UKRI APRIL AI Hub that aspires to develop AI tools to accelerate innovation across semiconductor technologies, novel microchip designs and system architectures – leading to faster, cheaper, greener and overall, more power-efficient electronics. As one of nine UKRI funded AI Hubs, this is a highly visible programme both nationally and internationally.



The post-holder will work closely with a team of talented researchers and the APRIL operations team to support the development of novel AI capabilities, tools and methodologies that can enhance the productivity of engineers in designing, developing and testing advanced electronic devices and systems. More specifically, the post-holder will be able to develop and introduce AI tools into commercially available circuit design tools that can autonomously synthetise circuits and systems architectures. The aim is to drastically reduce the design time and optimise the transfer of known topologies into new CMOS technologies.



The post-holder will have the ability to engage with world-leading experts across AI and electronics both at Edinburgh and in other UK higher education (HE) institutions but also industrial partners to ensure relevance of their Research in addressing state-of-art challenges in electronics.



The successful candidate will have excellent communication, organisation, and technical skills. They will enjoy working in a dynamic environment and be able to work on their own initiative as well as being an active team member. The role will report to the APRIL Hub Director (Principal Investigator), with on-going engagement with other researchers in the Hub as well as academic leads.

This role is UE07 and is available on a fixed term basis for up to 60 months.



A full list of main responsibilities and the knowledge, skills and experience required for the role can be found in the full job description below.



Your skills and attributes for success:

A 1st class undergraduate degree and a PhD in Electronics or AI, or a clearly related area, with a proven contact with Circuits and Systems Design, or a closely related area or equivalent industry experience.
Experience in AI tools for Circuits and Systems Design automation; Experience with EDA tools.
A track record of research in AI, with a specific focus on Circuits and Systems Design or a closely related area.
Experience in delivering research project results in a Circuits and Systems Design and/or AI context; i.e. a record of peer-reviewed journal and conference papers in a relevant area.
Ability to be adaptive and accepting of new ideas and a willingness to approach new challenges and adjusts plans to meet new priorities.