Pre Sales AI Data Architect

1 Month ago • All levels • Data Analysis

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Pre-Sales AI Architect, you will identify and secure new AI opportunities by bridging the gap between complex customer challenges and transformative, AI-powered solutions. You will work closely with clients, account teams, and delivery leads to understand customer needs, design compelling AI solutions, and contribute to successful bid strategies and proposals. You will act as a trusted advisor to translate real-world challenges into scalable AI architectures. The role involves understanding client needs, designing AI architectures, supporting sales, prototyping solutions, and staying updated on industry trends.
Must have:
  • Experience in pre-sales roles involving AI, data science, or analytics.
  • Ability to elicit business needs and align them with AI/ML solutions.
  • Deep technical understanding of AI/ML concepts.
  • Experience designing solutions using relevant tools.
  • Ability to develop architecture artifacts and estimate effort and cost.
Good to have:
  • Strong storytelling and presentation skills.
  • Experience working in bid teams or with account executives.
  • Understanding of data governance and ethical AI practices.
  • Ability to adapt solutions across multiple sectors.
Perks:
  • Share in our success with our Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme.
  • Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching.
  • Flexible/remote working.
  • Financial Wellbeing initiatives (Pension, Healthcare, etc.).
  • Employee Wellbeing schemes (Gym Discounts, Mindfulness Workshops, etc.).
  • Generous holiday allowance and leave policies.
  • Educational assistance and incentivized certifications.
  • Reward schemes.
  • Environment, Social and Community First initiatives.

Job Details

Company Description

Version 1 has celebrated over 28 years in Technology Services and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver solutions that drive customer success. Version 1 has several strategic technology partners including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, OutSystems and Snowflake. We’re also an award-winning employer reflecting how employees are at the heart of Version 1. 

We’ve been awarded: Innovation Partner of the Year Winner 2023 Oracle EMEA Partner Awards, Global Microsoft Modernising Applications Partner of the Year Award 2023, AWS Collaboration Partner of the Year - EMEA 2023 and Best Workplaces for Women by Great Place To Work in UK and Ireland 2023. 

As a consultancy and service provider, Version 1 is a digital-first environment and we do things differently. We’re focused on our core values; using these we’ve seen significant growth across our practices and our Digital, Data and Cloud team is preparing for the next phase of expansion. This creates new opportunities for driven and skilled individuals to join one of the fastest-growing consultancies globally. 

Job Description

Role Overview

As a Pre-Sales AI Architect, you will play a pivotal role in identifying, shaping, and securing new AI opportunities by bridging the gap between complex customer challenges and transformative, AI-powered solutions. This highly consultative role requires a strong blend of technical expertise, business acumen, and communication skills. You will work closely with clients, account teams, and delivery leads to understand customer needs, design compelling AI solutions, and contribute to successful bid strategies and proposals.

You are expected to act as a trusted advisor to both internal teams and client stakeholders, translating real-world challenges into scalable AI architectures that demonstrate tangible business value. Your work will directly support sales growth by influencing solution design, estimating effort and risk, and differentiating our offer through innovation and credibility.

Key Responsibilities

1. Shape AI Solutions in Response to Client Needs

Engage with client stakeholders to uncover pain points, business drivers, and opportunities for AI-powered transformation.

Conduct discovery workshops and assessments to define business requirements and align them with AI use cases.

2. Design and Propose AI Architectures

Translate client requirements into scalable, cloud-based AI architectures that address both technical feasibility and business impact.

Propose end-to-end AI/ML solutions—including model design, data pipelines, MLOps, and platform integration—tailored to each opportunity.

3. Support Sales and Bid Activity

Lead the technical response for AI-related RFPs, RFIs, and proposals, including solution overviews, technical narratives, architecture diagrams, and estimates.

Contribute to bid strategy, win themes, and differentiators based on the latest AI technologies (e.g. GenAI, LLMs, computer vision, NLP, predictive modelling).

4. Prototype and Demonstrate

Build proof-of-concepts (PoCs) or demos to validate solution approaches and inspire client confidence.

Showcase AI capabilities using relevant tools (e.g. Power BI + Azure ML, Hugging Face, LangChain, GPT APIs).

5. Track Industry Trends and Use Cases

Stay ahead of market trends in Generative AI, Responsible AI, and emerging AI use cases across sectors.

Advise internal stakeholders on how evolving technologies (e.g. vector databases, RAG pipelines, prompt engineering) can drive value in future proposals.

Qualifications

Experience & Skills

  • Proven experience in pre-sales or client-facing architecture roles involving AI, data science, or analytics.
  • Strong ability to elicit business needs and align them with AI/ML solutions in cloud environments (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
  • Deep technical understanding of AI/ML concepts: supervised and unsupervised learning, GenAI, LLMs, embeddings, MLOps, vector search.
  • Experience designing solutions using tools such as Azure ML, AWS SageMaker, Google Vertex AI, Databricks, LangChain, and Hugging Face.
  • Ability to develop architecture artefacts (e.g., HLDs), estimate effort and cost, and contribute to proposal writing.
  • Strong storytelling and presentation skills; able to build confidence with senior business and technical stakeholders.
  • Experience working in bid teams or alongside account executives, ideally in a consultancy or solution provider context.
  • Understanding of data governance, security, and ethical AI practices.
  • Ability to adapt solutions across multiple sectors (e.g., public sector, utilities, finance, health) is a strong advantage.

Additional Information

Why Version 1?

At Version 1, we believe in providing our employees with a comprehensive benefits package that prioritises their wellbeing, professional growth, and financial stability.

  • 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.

And many more exciting benefits… drop us a note to find out more.

Laura Cowan

laura.cowan@version1.com

#LI-LC1

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