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# Solutions Architect

- **Company:** hedgehog lab
- **Location:** Edinburgh, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing
- **Published:** September 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2858050711-solutions-architect

## About the Role

* A broad, hands-on technical background, rooted in engineering rather than business
 * AI software engineering experience, since a large part of our work now runs through it
 * Comfort writing and shipping code, increasingly with AI coding tools
 * Cloud and infrastructure experience, defining setups rather than just working within them
 * Strong communication, translating between low-level technical detail and non-technical stakeholders
 * A fast learner who context switches well and stays curious outside their own specialism

Also important:

 * Systems and solution design
 * Awareness of pre-sales estimation and scoping

## Description

You go into a client, work out the solution, then help build the early versions yourself. You are working alongside the development team, not producing artefacts that get filed and forgotten.

This is a mid-level role in our architecture function, with a clear path into senior architecture as you grow.

The work varies a lot. You might be shaping a cloud setup one week and pulling AI into a delivery workflow the next.


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