Solutions Architect - Applied AI & Software
Who is Parser?
Technology alone does not create impact—the right teams do. Founded in 2018, Parser is a boutique technology services and consulting firm helping global organisations solve complex business challenges through digital transformation, product development and AI enablement.
We are a fast-growing team of 340+ engineers and consultants across Europe (UK, Spain, Portugal), the Americas (US, Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia), and the Middle East. We combine global reach with a mindset focused on agility, senior expertise, and close collaboration.
We work as an extension of our clients’ teams, helping them define the right problems, shape solutions, and deliver technology-driven outcomes that create measurable business value. Our expertise spans software engineering, AI & data, product development, and customer experience, delivered by teams that combine strong technical depth with a consulting mindset.
Why Join Us?
If you are looking for a place where you can think beyond execution, take true ownership of outcomes, influence decisions, and continuously learn alongside top-tier specialists in a truly global environment, we’d love to meet you.
How will you impact?
As a Solutions Architect, you’ll play a key role in shaping and delivering the technical architecture behind an AI-driven investment platform, spanning applications, data, AI, integrations, and cloud infrastructure.
This is a hands-on architecture role, combining strategic technical direction with practical engineering. Working closely with engineering teams, you’ll take complex and ambiguous challenges from architecture through to production, writing production-quality code, building prototypes and reference implementations, reviewing designs, and solving complex technical problems.
The role will shape target-state architecture, reusable patterns, and technical standards across the platform, with a particular focus on production-grade AI and RAG systems, data architecture, integrations, security, and Azure cloud infrastructure. Success will require strong architectural judgement and hands-on engineering expertise to create solutions that are scalable, secure, cost-effective, and built for production.
Your key responsibilities:
Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:
- Own end-to-end architecture and implementation across AI, data, and application initiatives, from current-state assessment and target-state design through to production delivery.
- Stay hands-on with engineering, building prototypes and production-quality solutions in Python and TypeScript, reviewing code, and resolving complex technical challenges.
- Design production-grade AI architectures across LLM/RAG, retrieval, agentic workflows, evaluation, guardrails, tool calling, observability, and cost/latency optimisation.
- Define reference architectures, reusable patterns, and technical standards across applications, data, integrations, security, and cloud infrastructure.
- Translate requirements from investment, portfolio, risk, finance, and corporate teams into scalable technical solutions, leading build-vs-buy assessments and technology evaluations where required.
- Own integration architecture and non-functional requirements, including security, entitlements, resilience, scalability, performance, data residency, auditability, and regulatory alignment.
- Work closely with engineers and senior stakeholders to drive technical decisions, document architectural standards, and mentor engineering teams, raising architectural and engineering standards across the wider technology group.
What You’ll Bring to the Role
Essential Requirements:
- 10+ years of software engineering and architecture experience, with substantial recent hands-on development experience and a track record of personally delivering production systems.
- Strong hands-on expertise across Python, SQL, backend, frontend, data, and infrastructure, with the ability to take solutions from design through code, deployment, and production.
- Proven experience designing and building
production AI/LLM architectures, including RAG, retrieval, agentic workflows, evaluation, guardrails, and AI integrations. - Extensive cloud architecture experience, ideally Azure, spanning networking, identity, security, infrastructure, deployment, and cost optimisation.
- Deep data and integration architecture expertise, including data modelling, lakehouse/warehouse architectures, data quality, governance, and complex system integrations.
- Proven knowledge of security, compliance, and non-functional architecture within regulated or data-sensitive environments, combined with the ability to influence engineers, vendors, and senior stakeholders.
Desirable Requirements:
- Experience within asset management, sovereign wealth, private equity/credit, banking, fintech, or capital markets, with an understanding of investment workflows and data.
- Experience integrating financial data providers (Bloomberg, LSEG/Refinitiv, FactSet, S&P Capital IQ, PitchBook, Preqin, MSCI), large-scale document processing, and/or enterprise streaming and data platforms.
- Experience establishing architecture standards or design authority, relevant cloud/architecture certifications, and/or experience working with distributed international teams.
- Industry-recognised architecture or cloud credentials, such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert or TOGAF.
Location & Work Model
London UK: Hybrid model, requiring 2-3 days per week in the office in Covent Garden.
You will receive:
- The chance to join an organization with triple-digit growth that is changing the paradigm on how software products are built.
- The opportunity to be part of an amazing, multicultural community of tech experts.
- A highly competitive compensation package.
- A flexible and hybrid working environment.
- Private medical insurance.
Parser is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace and providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants regardless of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
If you require reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know and we will work with you to support your participation.
By applying to this role, you acknowledge that your personal data will be processed in accordance with Parser’s Privacy Notice for recruitment purposes.
Parser may use AI-assisted tools during certain stages of the recruitment process to support operational efficiency. Our recruiting teams use AI to streamline note-taking and scheduling.
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Skills Required
- 10+ years of software engineering and architecture experience, including substantial recent hands-on development and personal delivery of production systems.
- Hands-on expertise across Python, SQL, backend, frontend, data, and infrastructure, with experience taking solutions from design through deployment and production.
- Experience designing and building production AI and LLM architectures, including RAG, retrieval, agentic workflows, evaluation, guardrails, and AI integrations.
- Extensive cloud architecture experience, ideally with Azure, including networking, identity, security, infrastructure, deployment, and cost optimization.
- Deep data and integration architecture expertise, including data modeling, lakehouse or warehouse architectures, data quality, governance, and complex system integrations.
- Knowledge of security, compliance, and non-functional architecture in regulated or data-sensitive environments.
- Ability to influence engineers, vendors, and senior stakeholders.
- Experience in asset management, sovereign wealth, private equity or credit, banking, fintech, or capital markets.
- Experience integrating financial data providers such as Bloomberg, LSEG/Refinitiv, FactSet, S&P Capital IQ, PitchBook, Preqin, or MSCI.
- Experience with large-scale document processing, enterprise streaming, or data platforms.
- Experience establishing architecture standards or serving on a design authority.
- Relevant cloud or architecture certifications, such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert or TOGAF.
- Experience working with distributed international teams.
What We Do
At Parser we help organisations leverage on digital to advance their business strategy. For us, creativity, talent, and passion are indispensable to succeed. This is why we are committed to building, nurturing, and empowering a diverse, multi-disciplinary environment, where every team member can grow professionally and achieve their ambitions, while helping our clients deliver amazing digital products. Thanks to our flexible, distributed model of global operation and the high calibre of our experts, we have enjoyed triple digit growth over the past five years, creating amazing career opportunities for our people across 4 continents. Our services: - Digital Strategy & Transformation We help you understand market trends, relevant technologies, and aligned with your business strategy we create your vision and set the digital direction. This enables you to focus efforts and integrate business and technology across your organisation. - Digital Portfolio Management Based on a clear vision and direction, we help you assess your position, execute your digital strategy and manage your portfolio. We do this by integrating a range of diverse business and technical practises, transforming your organisation in the process. - Product & Service Development We help you create new experiences by designing user journeys that bridge all of the relevant departments of your organisation. By harnessing our ecosystem of specialised talent, we can provide relevant and focused expertise on demand.
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