Principal Architect | Agentic AI

Our NielsenIQ Technology teams are building and evolving Connect a unified global open data ecosystem powered by cloud and on-premises technologies. Clients around the world rely on NielsenIQ data and insights to innovate and grow. As a Principal Architect within the Enterprise Architecture team you will define architecture for key components and capabilities across NIQ platforms ensuring alignment with business strategy product objectives technology standards and the long-term platform vision. You will partner with architecture peers Product and Operations leaders engineering leaders and development teams to take solutions from initial requirements through design delivery and production operation. A key focus of this role is shaping the responsible adoption of Artificial Intelligence Generative AI and agentic AI across the enterprise. The successful candidate will combine broad enterprise architecture experience with practical knowledge of AI-enabled systems and will grow into an end-to-end platform architect as their knowledge of NIQs platforms expands.

Responsibilities

  Lead the development of architecture designs for key products and capabilities across NIQ platforms working closely with product stakeholders engineering teams and other architects.

  Define high-level solution approaches and blueprints that guide component-level design while maintaining an end-to-end view of platform integration future products and the technology roadmap.

  Create maintain and promote reference architectures architecture principles standards patterns and decision records for key areas of the platform.

  Shape enterprise architecture for AI Generative AI and agentic AI solutions including model integration retrieval-augmented generation orchestration tool and API use memory workflow automation and human-in-the-loop controls.

  Define reusable patterns for secure and scalable AI agents including identity and access control data grounding context management guardrails evaluation observability auditability failure handling and cost management.

  Partner with security privacy legal data governance and Responsible AI stakeholders to ensure AI solutions meet enterprise requirements for confidentiality intellectual property regulatory compliance transparency and risk management.

  Assess emerging technologies and viable alternatives for front-end applications platform services data pipelines databases AI platforms foundation models vector stores and agentic frameworks including build-versus-buy recommendations.

  Establish model and solution evaluation criteria covering quality accuracy groundedness safety latency scalability resilience and total cost of ownership.

  Identify future-state solutions and drive innovation through proofs of concept technology migrations controlled pilots and productionization.

  Provide architecture leadership coaching and design governance promoting pragmatic high-quality solutions and consistent engineering practices across teams.

Qualifications :

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related discipline or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in application development solution design or software architecture supported by a strong engineering background and experience with enterprise-scale platforms.
• Demonstrated experience designing and delivering scalable secure highly available and observable distributed systems in production.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise data architecture data modelling and high-volume processing across relational and non-relational data stores; experience with multi-terabyte databases is strongly preferred.
• Experience with Azure AI services Azure AI Foundry Azure OpenAI or comparable enterprise AI platforms.
• Familiarity with agentic AI frameworks and interoperability standards such as semantic orchestration frameworks multi-agent frameworks and the Model Context Protocol.
• Experience defining Responsible AI governance AI risk controls threat modelling red-teaming or security patterns for AI-enabled applications.
• Strong knowledge of data structures algorithms and design for performance scalability availability resilience privacy and security.
• Good knowledge of cloud architecture preferably Microsoft Azure including identity networking security data integration monitoring and platform services.
• Practical experience architecting or delivering AI or Generative AI solutions in production with an understanding of large language models embeddings vector search retrieval-augmented generation prompt and context engineering and model evaluation.
• Understanding of agentic AI architecture patterns including agent orchestration planning and reasoning workflows tool calling state and memory management multi-agent coordination human oversight and safe execution boundaries.
• Ability to communicate complex architecture decisions clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders and to influence outcomes across organizational boundaries.

Additional Information :

Our Benefits

• Flexible working environment
• Volunteer time off
• LinkedIn Learning
• Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)

NIQ may utilize artificial intelligence (AI) tools at various stages of the recruitment process including résumé screening candidate assessments interview scheduling job matching communication support and certain administrative tasks that help streamline workflows. These tools are intended to improve efficiency and support fair and consistent evaluation based on job-related criteria. All use of AI is governed by NIQs principles of fairness transparency human oversight and inclusion. Final hiring decisions are made exclusively by humans. NIQ regularly reviews its AI tools to help mitigate bias and ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations. If you have questions require accommodations or wish to request human review were permitted by law please contact your local HR representative. For more information please visit NIQs AI Safety Policies and Guiding Principles: NIQ

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