HPC Architecture Leader

Salary: £53,000 - 93,000 per year

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree or higher in a STEM discipline, such as Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or equivalent
• 8+ years of experience designing, implementing, and scaling large-scale HPC compute and storage architectures, with demonstrated ownership of outcomes in production environments
• 3+ years managing and leading an HPC technology team, with demonstrated people leadership through mentoring, coaching, setting expectations, and building a strong team culture
• Proven expertise designing performance-optimized, high-density systems using CPU and GPU technologies
• Deep technical command of the HPC stack, including next-generation processors, memory subsystems, and high-speed interconnects
• Comprehensive mastery of Linux-based environments and the broader HPC ecosystem
• Familiarity with HPC benchmarking, monitoring, and performance-tuning tools
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to align teams and drive decisions across a matrixed organization
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives, including planning, risk management, and execution across globally distributed teams and vendors
• Curious, self-driven mindset and a passion for learning and applying emerging HPC technologies
• Preferred: Experience building and scaling technical teams, including hiring, onboarding, and developing talent in a fast-changing environment
• Preferred: Ability to communicate technical trade-offs to senior stakeholders and influence investment and roadmap decisions
• Preferred: Change leadership experience, including introducing standards, improving processes, and raising engineering maturity across teams
• Preferred: Knowledge of high-performance networking and interconnects, such as InfiniBand and high-speed Ethernet fabrics
• Preferred: Experience with high-performance storage technologies such as Lustre, Ceph, or BeeGFS
• Preferred: Exposure to cloud-native and hybrid HPC technologies

Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end architecture for next-generation HPC systems
• Shape the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of our high-performance computing platforms
• Align stakeholders across engineering, operations, vendors, and clients to deliver secure, scalable, and cost-optimized solutions
• Set technical direction, lead and develop high-performing teams, and influence decisions
• Deliver measurable improvements in system performance, reliability, and total cost of ownership
• Lead cross-functional initiatives, including planning, risk management, and execution across distributed teams and vendors

Technologies:

• AI
• Cloud
• Ceph
• Ethernet
• InfiniBand
• Support
• Linux
• Architect

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Viridien is an advanced technology, digital, and Earth data company working to address natural resource, digital, energy transition, and infrastructure challenges. We are a global HPC and technology leader with more than 70 years of experience in scientific computing. Our global high-performance scientific computing infrastructure delivers more than 700 petaflops and runs over one million scientific computing jobs daily across fields including geophysical imaging, materials science, biotechnology, and AI-driven research. This is a hands-on, collaborative leadership role on our global HPC technology team. The role is available full time in our Crawley, United Kingdom office, south of London and well connected to London, the South Coast, and Gatwick Airport, or in our Houston, Texas office. We offer a competitive salary, an attractive bonus scheme, 22 days of annual leave initially with future increases, a company pension with generous employer contributions, wellbeing support, flexible benefits and discounts, a cycle purchase scheme, flexible private medical and dental care, and a bank holiday swap programme. We are committed to a respectful, inclusive, and accessible recruitment experience and equal employment opportunities. Due to application volumes, we may not be able to provide individual feedback to every applicant; candidates whose qualifications closely match the criteria will be contacted for interview, and we aim to provide personalized feedback to candidates progressing through the first interview round and beyond.

last updated 40 week of 2026