AI Architect

Salary: £38,000 - 68,000 per year

Requirements

• Active UK SC Clearance is essential.
• 10 years in software, data engineering, or solution architecture, with at least 3-5 years focused specifically on applied AI/ML or Generative AI.
• Proven experience architecting solutions with frontier models, including prompt engineering, fine-tuning, RAG, and agentic/multi-agent system design.
• Expertise in evaluation frameworks, observability, cost and latency optimization, guardrails, and safe deployment at scale.
• Direct experience with major model providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google) and hyperscaler AI stacks (AWS Bedrock, Azure AI/OpenAI, Google Vertex AI).
• Deep knowledge of Responsible AI, risk management, and regulatory frameworks (e.g., EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF).
• Proven experience in client-facing consulting, pre-sales technical leadership, and managing CxO-level stakeholders.
• Strong software engineering background, including API design, microservices, cloud-native architecture, and data pipelines.
• Experience with agent orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI) and emerging tool protocols (e.g., Model Context Protocol / MCP) is preferred.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., Azure AI Engineer, AWS ML Specialty, Google Professional ML Engineer) are preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, governance, and delivery of enterprise-grade AI solutions built on frontier foundation models.
• Architect enterprise AI solutions using frontier models across agentic automation, RAG, copilots, and multi-modal applications.
• Lead technical solutioning during pre-sales and discovery, translating client business challenges into scalable AI architectures and delivery roadmaps.
• Design and govern AI platform architectures covering model orchestration, prompt/context management, retrieval pipelines, vector stores, and tool integration.
• Define and enforce AI governance, risk, and safety frameworks aligned with regulatory requirements.
• Mentor and lead a team of AI engineers and architects, driving end-to-end delivery quality, technical governance boards, and production readiness.
• Own technical relationships across major cloud AI ecosystems.
• Drive the creation of reusable accelerators, frameworks, and IP across client engagements.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to client CxOs.

Technologies

• AI
• API
• AWS
• Architect
• Azure
• Cloud
• Fine-tuning
• MCP
• RAG
• microservices
• MLOps

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We are seeking an AI Architect for a high-impact, hybrid technical-leadership contract role in London for 6 months at a daily rate of £650.00 - £680.00. We work on enterprise-grade AI solutions built on frontier foundation models in complex, highly regulated environments, and this role involves leading architects and engineers while advising client CxOs. Active SC clearance is required.

last updated 37 week of 2026