Vallum Associates

About the Company

Vallum Associates offer best in class talent acquisition on a contingency, retained, or project basis. Through our dedicated sector consultants, our specialised brands have the knowledge and connections to provide tailored hiring and project services across industries :

* Banking & Financial
* Energy, Utilities & Commodities
* Engineering & Renewable
* Insurance Services

Our specialised industry and sector specific consultants are able to offer a personalised experience to fit your needs. Our unique associate consultative approach compliments our own consultant's in-depth industry knowledge, allowing us to draw upon industry-wide connections to offer non- traditional approaches to delivering transformation and complete business growth globally.

Listed Jobs

Company Name

Vallum Associates

Job Title

ML & AI Engineer

Job Description

Job Title: ML & AI Engineer Role Summary: Design, develop, and maintain agentic AI solutions and infrastructure across Azure and GCP. Leverage large language models to create conversational banking products, implement retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and prompt engineering, and integrate AI services with existing bank systems. Expectations: - Deliver production‑grade, scalable machine‑learning pipelines and micro‑service architecture. - Collaborate cross‑functionally to shape agentic workflows and target AI assistant designs. - Iterate quickly using Agile/Scrum practices and CI/CD pipelines. Key Responsibilities: 1. Provision and operate Azure and GCP infrastructure for agentic workflows. 2. Architect and implement RAG pipelines, prompt engineering, and LLM ops for conversational AI products. 3. Design agent integration patterns to interact with bank systems and enable automated customer actions. 4. Develop new AI products: - Agent summarisation for nuanced conversation analysis. - Evolution of vector search into generative, single‑experience search. - Automated deterministic and generative conversation evaluation. 5. Build and maintain scalable data pipelines (Python/Spark) and GCP native services (BigQuery, Spanner, Dataflow, Firestore). 6. Monitor runtime performance, perform evaluations, and incorporate feedback into continuous improvement. Required Skills: - **Python** – ≥2 years in production LLM‑based applications. - **Software Engineering** – microservices architecture, CI/CD, event‑driven design. - **AI Engineering** – RAG pipelines, prompt engineering, Vertex AI, LLMOps, runtime monitoring. - **Data Engineering** – Python/Spark pipelines; GCP services (BQ, Spanner, Dataflow, Firestore). - **Optional** – Agentic AI frameworks (Langgraph, ADK, CrewAI); multi‑agent architectures; data ontology experience. - Agile/Scrum methodology exposure. Required Education & Certifications: - Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field. - Relevant certifications (e.g., GCP Professional Data Engineer, Azure AI Engineer, or equivalent) preferred.

London, United kingdom

Hybrid

09-03-2026

Company Name

Vallum Associates

Job Title

AWS Solution Architect

Job Description

Job Title: AWS Solution Architect Role Summary: Design, implement, and migrate large‑scale workloads to AWS, ensuring security, scalability, and cost efficiency while collaborating with cross‑functional teams. Expactations: Deliver end‑to‑end cloud migration projects; maintain high‑performance, secure, compliant AWS architectures; optimize cloud spend; provide technical guidance throughout migration lifecycle. Key Responsibilities: - Architect and deploy AWS solutions for enterprise‑scale environments. - Plan, execute, and oversee migrations of on‑premises applications and databases to AWS (re‑hosting, re‑platforming, re‑architecting). - Collaborate with architects, developers, security, and operations teams to define and meet business and technical requirements. - Design secure, highly available, disaster‑recovery capable cloud infrastructures. - Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize performance and cost. - Produce architecture diagrams, migration plans, and detailed documentation. Required Skills: - Proficient in AWS services (EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, etc.). - Strong migration experience using AWS Migration Hub, Server Migration Service (SMS), Database Migration Service (DMS), and related tools. - Expertise in network design, security hardening, and cost‑management best practices. - Hands‑on scripting/automation (Python, Bash) and IaC tools (CloudFormation, Terraform). - Excellent communication and stakeholder‑management skills. Required Education & Certifications: - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. - AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (minimum). - Preferred: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Certified Security Specialty, or equivalent.

England, United kingdom

Hybrid

13-03-2026

Company Name

Vallum Associates

Job Title

Solutions Architect

Job Description

**Job Title** Solutions Architect **Role Summary** Design and integrate scalable, secure IT solutions for procurement and supply‑chain operations, blending cloud and legacy systems to align technology with business goals. **Expectations** - Deliver architecture that meets functional, security, and performance standards. - Engage cross‑functional teams and senior stakeholders to ensure alignment and early risk mitigation. - Produce cost‑effective solutions with clear business cases and value propositions. **Key Responsibilities** - Translate business requirements into detailed technical specifications. - Design, prototype, and validate architecture for procurement and supply‑chain applications (cloud, hybrid, on‑premises). - Assess technology gaps, evaluate emerging technologies, and recommend integration strategies. - Draft business cases, pricing models, and value‑proposition documents for project approvals. - Collaborate with product owners, vendors, and development teams to align design and implementation. - Present architecture proposals to executives, manage expectations, and address risks early. - Guide security, compliance, data management, and scalability best practices. **Required Skills** - Enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman). - Cloud solution design (AWS, Azure, GCP) and legacy integration. - Excellent verbal & written communication; ability to explain complex concepts to non‑technical audiences. - Stakeholder management and expectation alignment. - Business analysis, requirement gathering, and solution translation. - Cost‑modeling, pricing strategy, and value‑proposition development. - Proficiency with architecture tools (Visio, ArchiMate, etc.). **Required Education & Certifications** - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent work experience). - Professional certifications preferred: TOGAF, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or equivalent.

England, United kingdom

Hybrid

16-03-2026

Company Name

Vallum Associates

Job Title

Senior Engineer

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Engineer Role Summary: Lead end‑to‑end design, deployment, and management of Google Apigee API Management Platform across enterprise environments, ensuring secure, scalable, and automated API solutions integrated with GCP services. Expectations: Deliver high‑quality API proxies and configurations, automate lifecycle through CI/CD, enforce security and governance standards, and collaborate with DevOps teams to optimize performance and compliance. Key Responsibilities: - Design, develop, and deploy Apigee API proxies, policies, and device configurations. - Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Harness, or similar. - Define and enforce API security policies (OAuth, JWT, mTLS, rate limiting, threat protection). - Automate deployment and configuration via IaC principles (Terraform, Cloud Deployment Manager). - Integrate Apigee with GCP services (Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, IAM, Cloud Armor). - Script and automate API operations using Python (or similar). - Configure and monitor API analytics, metrics, logs (Stackdriver, Cloud Monitoring). - Apply GCP Organization Policies and API governance frameworks. - Collaborate with containerization teams to host Apigee components on GKE. - Optimize API performance through caching, quota management, traffic routing, and load balancing. Required Skills: - Proficient in Google Apigee Edge API Management. - Strong experience with CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Harness). - Hands‑on with IaC (Terraform, Cloud Deployment Manager). - Expertise in API security (OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS). - Done Python (or similar) scripting for automation. - Familiarity with GCP services (Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, GKE, IAM). - Knowledge of API analytics and monitoring. - Ability to enforce organization‑wide governance standards. Required Education & Certifications: - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field. - Professional certifications such as Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect, Google Cloud Professional Cloud Developer, or Apigee API Management Specialization are highly desirable.

Leeds, United kingdom

Hybrid

Senior

18-03-2026