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Data Center Network Architect

Location: Dallas, TX – onsite 5 days per week
Compensation: Up to $235,000 base salary + two bonus components + equity

Overview

We are seeking an experienced Data Center Network Architect to help design, scale, and modernize large enterprise data center environments. This role is focused specifically on data center network architecture and fabric design – not general IT infrastructure, facilities management, or traditional network operations.

The ideal candidate has been directly involved in designing and deploying modern data center network fabrics, ideally across multiple data center rollouts, migrations, expansions, or large-scale modernization programs.

This is a hands-on architecture role that will partner closely with infrastructure, server, storage, cloud, security, operations, and leadership teams to build reliable, scalable, and high-performance data center network environments.

What You’ll Be Doing

Data Center Network Architecture

Design and support modern data center network architectures, including spine-leaf fabrics, network segmentation, routing, switching, and high-availability patterns.

Develop scalable, resilient architectures that support enterprise infrastructure, private cloud, hybrid cloud, compute, storage, and high-performance workloads.

Fabric Design & Deployment

Lead or contribute to the design, deployment, and optimization of data center network fabrics.

Relevant technologies may include:

• Arista EOS / CloudVision
• Cisco Nexus / ACI / NDFC
• EVPN / VXLAN
• BGP underlay / overlay
• Spine-leaf / CLOS architectures
• Multi-site data center fabrics
• Border leaf / services leaf design
• Routing, switching, segmentation, and traffic flow design

Data Center Rollouts & Modernization

Support data center buildouts, migrations, expansions, hardware refreshes, and modernization initiatives.

Help translate business and technical requirements into implementation-ready architecture, documentation, and execution plans.

Technical Documentation

Create and maintain architecture documentation, including:

• HLDs / LLDs
• Network diagrams
• BOMs
• MOPs / SOPs
• Migration plans
• Cutover plans
• Runbooks
• Standards and reference architectures

Cross-Functional Partnership

Work closely with server, storage, cloud, virtualization, security, facilities, and operations teams to ensure the network fabric supports broader infrastructure goals.

Partner with vendors, consultants, and internal engineering teams on design validation, implementation planning, troubleshooting, and ongoing optimization.

Performance, Availability & Reliability

Help ensure data center networks are highly available, resilient, secure, and scalable.

Support capacity planning, network performance improvements, resiliency reviews, and operational readiness for production environments.

What We’re Looking For

Required Experience

• 5+ years of experience in data center network architecture, engineering, or implementation
• Direct experience with data center network design, deployment, or modernization
• Strong understanding of spine-leaf / CLOS architecture
• Experience with data center routing and switching
• Experience with BGP, OSPF, VLANs, IP addressing, segmentation, and high-availability design
• Experience with data center migrations, expansions, buildouts, refreshes, or fabric deployments
• Ability to create clear technical documentation, diagrams, implementation plans, and runbooks
• Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Ability to work onsite in Dallas 5 days per week

Highly Preferred Experience

• Arista EOS and/or CloudVision
• Cisco Nexus, ACI, or NDFC
• EVPN / VXLAN
• BGP underlay / overlay design
• Multi-site data center fabric architecture
• Data center network automation using Ansible, Python, Terraform, APIs, or similar tools
• Experience in large enterprise, technology, semiconductor, cloud, colocation, financial services, or infrastructure consulting environments
• Experience working with server, storage, virtualization, private cloud, or hybrid cloud teams

Nice to Have

• Experience with AI/HPC infrastructure, GPU clusters, or high-performance data center environments
• Juniper Apstra, VMware NSX, or comparable fabric/network virtualization platforms
• Data center security integration experience with Palo Alto, F5, Fortinet, Cisco ISE, or similar tools
• Certifications such as CCNP, CCIE, Arista ACE, or equivalent data center/networking credentials

Ideal Backgrounds

We are especially interested in candidates coming from:

• Data center network architecture
• Data center fabric design
• Network infrastructure consulting
• Technology infrastructure integrators
• Colocation / data center providers
• Large enterprise infrastructure teams
• Cloud, semiconductor, financial services, manufacturing, or high-scale technology environments

Relevant previous titles may include:

• Data Center Network Architect
• Data Center Network Engineer
• Network Fabric Architect
• Principal Network Engineer
• Network Infrastructure Architect
• Network Solutions Architect
• Data Center Solutions Architect
• Cloud Network Architect
• Private Cloud Network Architect
• Infrastructure Architect
• Lead Network Engineer
• Cisco ACI / Nexus Architect
• Arista Network Architect
• EVPN / VXLAN Architect

What This Role Is Not

This is not a general helpdesk, NOC, wireless, telecom, or facilities role.

While data center operations experience is helpful, the core need is someone who has been directly involved in data center network fabric design and rollout.

The right person should be able to discuss architecture decisions around spine-leaf design, fabric scalability, routing, segmentation, migration planning, and production readiness.

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Lead AI Engineer – Multimodal
London (Hybrid), Up to £140,000 + benefits

This is a standout opportunity to step into a senior, hands-on leadership role within a newly established AI Lab. You will have genuine influence over technical direction, product experimentation, and delivery, while helping shape how generative AI is applied to high-impact, content-led products.

The Company
They are a globally operating organisation known for producing trusted, high-quality information and insight at scale. With a strong reputation for intellectual rigour and independence, they are investing significantly in advanced AI capabilities as part of a long-term product and innovation strategy. The AI Lab sits at the centre of this ambition, operating as a focused, high-impact product initiative.

The Role

• Provide senior technical leadership across a small, multidisciplinary AI Lab
• Design, build, and iterate on AI-powered prototypes spanning text, audio, voice, and multimodal experiences
• Lead technical exploration of new models, tools, and workflows
• Define and own architectural decisions, balancing speed, quality, and scalability
• Work closely with product, engineering, and non-technical stakeholders to turn ideas into live experiments
• Mentor and support engineers, contributing to the Lab’s longer-term technical roadmap

Your Skills & Experience

• Strong commercial experience building with modern generative AI systems in production or advanced prototype environments
• Excellent software engineering capability with a bias towards hands-on delivery
• Experience working across multiple modalities, such as text, audio, voice, or conversational interfaces
• Strong judgement in selecting models, tools, and architectures for different use cases
• Confidence communicating complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences
• Comfortable operating autonomously in fast-moving, ambiguous environments

What They Offer

• Salary up to £140,000 plus a competitive benefits package
• A senior role with real ownership and influence over a flagship AI initiative
• The opportunity to work in a small, high-impact team with strong executive backing
• Hybrid working model with a central London office and collaborative culture

How to Apply
Apply now to find out more about this Lead AI Engineer role and how you could shape the next phase of an ambitious AI programme.

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Senior AI Engineer – NLP, Finetuning and Multimodal
London, hybrid working (3 days in office), Up to £120,000 plus benefits

If you are excited by the idea of shaping how generative AI is applied to high-quality, real-world products, this role offers the chance to do exactly that. You will join a newly formed AI Lab where experimentation is encouraged, quality matters, and your work will have clear visibility and impact from day one.

The Company
They are a well-established, global organisation operating at the intersection of content, technology, and insight. With a strong reputation for quality and trust, they are investing heavily in generative AI as a core capability. The business operates at international scale and is now building new AI-driven products designed to influence how audiences engage with complex information.

The Role

• Build, fine-tune, and deploy LLM-powered systems used in customer-facing products
• Develop models that capture and reproduce a distinct editorial tone and style
• Design and evaluate retrieval-augmented generation pipelines using structured content
• Support experimentation in real-time generation, personalisation, and multimodal use cases, including audio
• Work closely with product, engineering, and editorial stakeholders to translate ideas into working solutions
• Contribute to a fast-moving, experimental environment where iteration and learning are central

Your Skills & Experience

• Strong hands-on experience working with large language models and NLP systems
• Practical experience fine-tuning models using techniques such as supervised fine-tuning or prompt tuning
• Strong Python capability and familiarity with modern LLM tooling and frameworks
• Experience building or working with RAG pipelines and model evaluation approaches
• Confident communicator, comfortable collaborating with non-technical stakeholders
• A curious, exploratory mindset with a strong focus on output quality and real-world impact

What They Offer

• Salary up to £120,000 plus a strong benefits package
• The opportunity to work on a flagship AI initiative with senior visibility
• A high-impact role in a small, dedicated AI Lab with genuine influence over technical direction
• Hybrid working with a central London office and a collaborative team culture

How to Apply
Apply now to discuss how this Senior AI Engineer role could be the next step in your AI and generative technology career.

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Staff Data Engineer

Location: New York, NY (Hybrid)
Pay: $200k – $250k Base

Overview

This Staff Engineer role sits within a growing data engineering organisation supporting multiple product lines inside a modern digital media and analytics company. The position plays a critical role in shaping shared data architecture, enabling cross‑platform collaboration, and driving the company’s AI and generative AI roadmap.
You’ll act as a senior technical leader – influencing architectural direction, mentoring engineers, and remaining hands‑on with production systems – ensuring data platforms scale coherently as products and teams continue to integrate and evolve.

Responsibilities

• Design, own, and evolve shared data architecture across multiple product platforms
• Establish scalable patterns and standards for data modelling, pipelines, and observability
• Lead technical strategy for integrating data products across teams to enable cross‑platform insights
• Drive the AI and backend infrastructure roadmap, including pipelines supporting ML and LLM‑powered features
• Collaborate closely with product, engineering, and ML teams to translate business needs into durable architectural decisions
• Mentor data engineers, identify skill gaps, and raise the overall technical bar across the organisation
• Evaluate and prototype emerging AI and generative AI technologies for real‑world product use cases
• Contribute to engineering planning, roadmap prioritisation, and support for production systems

Must‑Have Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data engineering, data architecture, or a closely related field
• Proven experience designing and operating large‑scale data systems across complex, multi‑product environments
• Strong experience with cloud data warehouses (e.g. Snowflake, BigQuery, or equivalent)
• Hands‑on experience building batch and streaming data pipelines using tools such as Spark, Kafka, Airflow, or similar
• Demonstrated experience integrating AI / ML capabilities into production data systems, including LLMs or foundation models
• Strong Python proficiency and data architecture expertise
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence both technical and non‑technical stakeholders

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Lead AI Engineer
London (Hybrid), competitive salary between £120,000 and £140,000 plus benefits

This is a rare opportunity to step into a hands on AI leadership role within a small, high impact innovation lab. You will play a critical role in shaping how advanced AI capabilities are explored, prototyped and brought closer to real world products, with genuine influence over technical direction during a pivotal period for the team.

The Company

They are a recognised organisation operating at the intersection of content, technology and insight, with a strong reputation for intellectual rigour and independence. Their work reaches a large audience and supports individuals and organisations in understanding complex global change. The business is investing significantly in AI to explore new ways of delivering value, while maintaining the highest standards of quality and trust. A dedicated AI Lab has been created to push beyond the existing roadmap and experiment with what is next.

The Role

As Lead AI Engineer, you will provide senior technical leadership within the AI Lab, taking ownership of complex engineering decisions and hands on delivery.

• Provide technical leadership and continuity within the AI Lab during a period of team transition
• Design, build and iterate on AI driven prototypes across text, audio, voice, video and multimodal experiences
• Lead experimentation with new models, tools and workflows, assessing their suitability for different use cases
• Shape pragmatic architectures that balance speed, flexibility, quality and future scalability
• Help identify where advances in AI can create distinctive value for audiences and products
• Contribute to the longer term technical direction of the Lab, influencing what capabilities to build or scale
• Support and mentor other technical contributors where appropriate

Your Skills and Experience

• Strong hands on experience building modern generative AI systems in production or advanced prototype environments
• Excellent software engineering capability with a pragmatic approach to rapid prototyping
• Experience working with multiple modalities such as text, audio, voice, video or conversational interfaces
• Ability to clearly explain technical concepts to non technical stakeholders
• Experience defining and applying evaluation approaches for AI quality, reliability and usability
• Must have experience working in a content creation environment

What They Offer

• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package
• Hybrid working with regular collaboration from a London office
• Generous pension, private healthcare and wellbeing support
• Flexible working benefits including work from anywhere options
• Strong parental leave, annual leave and additional wellbeing days

How to Apply

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Lead Data Engineer

Remote UK, £90,000 to £100,000

This is an opportunity to join a fast scaling, digital first consumer platform at a pivotal point in its data journey. They are investing heavily in their data infrastructure and are building a high performing, software led data engineering team to support real time, high volume analytics across the business. You will have genuine influence over how data engineering is done, working on modern tooling and best practice from day one.

The Company

They are a UK based, consumer facing digital platform operating in a highly regulated online environment. Since launching less than a decade ago, the business has grown rapidly, supported by significant recent funding and a strong focus on product, user experience and responsible engagement. Data is central to their growth strategy, and they are building a modern, scalable analytics platform to support this ambition. The team operates fully remotely across the UK and Europe.

The Role

• Design, build and own end to end data pipelines supporting real time and batch analytics
• Work on high volume, low latency data use cases with a strong focus on reliability and scalability
• Develop production grade data solutions using software engineering best practices such as CI/CD, testing and version control
• Contribute to the design of data models and analytics layers used across the business
• Help implement and mature staging, testing and deployment processes across the data platform
• Collaborate closely with analytics, product and engineering teams to enable better decision making

Your Skills and Experience

• Strong commercial experience as a data engineer in modern, cloud based environments
• Advanced Python and SQL, with experience using PySpark or similar distributed processing frameworks
• Experience building and maintaining data pipelines in AWS using services such as S3, Glue or EKS
• Hands on experience with modern analytics stacks such as Snowflake, dbt and Iceberg
• Familiarity with orchestration tools such as Dagster or Airflow
• Strong understanding of data modelling concepts and analytics best practice
• A software engineering mindset, including Git, testing and CI/CD workflows

What They Offer

• The chance to help shape a growing data platform and engineering culture
• Clear progression opportunities as the data team continues to expand
• Exposure to complex, real world data challenges at scale

How to Apply

If you are a Lead Data Engineer looking to make a real impact in a growing, product led business, apply now to learn more about the opportunity.

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