About this role
Salary: £70,000 - 75,000 per year
Requirements: We require DV Clearance; due to this, we can only consider sole British citizenship holders.After the offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks.We are looking for a forward-thinking HPC Architect with expertise in storage and infrastructure.We need experience architecting large-scale HPC clusters, including CPU, GPU, and accelerator-based systems.We expect knowledge of high-performance networking such as InfiniBand, RDMA, and high-speed Ethernet.We are looking for experience defining storage architecture, including parallel file systems, object storage, and tiered storage.We need understanding of workload orchestration strategies such as SLURM and Kubernetes for HPC.We are seeking experience guiding software stack design, including MPI, CUDA, compilers, libraries, and containers. Responsibilities: Define the long-term HPC architecture roadmap aligned with our organisational goals.Evaluate and select technologies across compute, storage, networking, and cloud HPC.Establish standards, reference architectures, and best practices.Architect large-scale HPC clusters, including CPU, GPU, and accelerator-based systems.Design high-performance networking such as InfiniBand, RDMA, and high-speed Ethernet.Define storage architecture, including parallel file systems, object storage, and tiered storage.Provide technical leadership and oversight to our HPC engineering and operations teams.Ensure systems are designed for optimal throughput, latency, and scalability.Lead performance benchmarking, capacity planning, and workload modelling.Identify and eliminate architectural bottlenecks.Define strategies for workload orchestration such as SLURM and Kubernetes for HPC.Guide software stack design, including MPI, CUDA, compilers, libraries, and containers.Ensure reproducibility, portability, and performance of workloads.Manage and maintain HPC environments including compute nodes, storage, and interconnects.Work closely with our team and wider stakeholders across the organisation.Engage with multi-national, multi-cultural teams to drive capability development cross-functionally.Partner with engineers and HPC vendors to ensure HPC services meet evolving business needs. Technologies: ArchitectCloudCUDAEthernetInfiniBandKubernetesRDMASecuritySupport More:
We are offering an exciting opportunity for a passionate HPC Architect to join a unique, multi-national Information Management function. This is a dynamic hybrid role with 2–3 days per week on-site due to workload classification. You will become part of a well-respected team recognised for professionalism, dedication, and flexibility, working both nationally and internationally within a culturally diverse organisation. We are committed to investing in our workforce through a personal development programme and supporting the future of software-defined data centres and open source technologies in a fast-paced development environment.
last updated 38 week of 2026