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David Kennedy Recruitment is working with a leading tech outsourcing company that is looking to recruit an AI Architect to join their team.
Position: AI Architect
Location: London UK
Employment type: Full-time
Remuneration: Base salary bonus
POSITION OVERVIEW
As an AI Architect you will lead the strategy architecture and delivery of interoperable compliant and cost-effective AI solutions across hybrid environments. You will design modern AI architectures combining frontier models small language models and edge inference to enable scalable Agentic AI capabilities.
Working closely with senior technology and business leaders you will act as both a technical authority and trusted advisor shaping enterprise AI strategy defining best practices and driving complex AI transformation initiatives that support the future hybrid workforce.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Define and govern reference architectures for multi-agent systems including hierarchical peer-to-peer and sequential orchestration models guiding teams on architecture pattern selection
Architect integrated memory systems covering session memory long-term knowledge using vector databases and knowledge graphs and audit or episodic memory strategies
Design end-to-end Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and Cache-Augmented Generation architectures ensuring strong standards for evaluation observability lineage and performance optimization
Establish cross-cloud and vendor integration frameworks advising on platform selection while balancing interoperability scalability and vendor lock-in considerations
Define GenAIOps architectural standards including CI/CD infrastructure as code monitoring and performance metrics such as latency cost hallucination risk and token consumption
Architect enterprise AI safety security and governance guardrails including prompt security PII protection bias mitigation and human-in-the-loop workflows aligned with industry frameworks
Design scalable integration patterns connecting agentic AI systems with enterprise platforms identity services collaboration tools and cloud-native infrastructure
Provide senior technical leadership and strategic advisory to executive stakeholders facilitating workshops shaping AI roadmaps and mentoring engineering and architecture teams
Contribute to industry thought leadership through conference presentations publications and active participation in the AI community.
REQUIREMENTS:
810 years of experience in technical leadership roles with strong foundations in software engineering and enterprise cloud architecture
Deep architectural expertise in at least one major cloud platform (Azure AWS or GCP) with working knowledge of additional cloud ecosystems
Proven experience designing and delivering GenAI and LLM-based solutions using enterprise AI platforms
Demonstrated expertise building complex RAG pipelines and orchestration architectures
Hands-on experience with LLM instruction tuning or model fine-tuning approaches
Strong stakeholder engagement skills with experience advising senior leadership and C-level executives on technology strategy and governance
Experience designing or prototyping advanced multi-agent systems and collaborative AI architectures
Multi-cloud architectural expertise across Azure AWS and GCP environments
Practical experience with GenAIOps tooling AI governance frameworks and AI FinOps or model routing strategies
Development experience with orchestration frameworks such as LangChain LlamaIndex or Semantic Kernel
Demonstrated thought leadership through publications conference speaking patents or open-source contributions
Professional cloud certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert AWS Solutions Architect Professional or GCP Professional Cloud Architect.
BENEFITS:
Opportunity to shape enterprise-scale AI transformation programs at the forefront of Agentic AI innovation.
Exposure to senior executive stakeholders and high-impact global AI initiatives.
Collaborative environment focused on innovation technical excellence and continuous learning.
Career growth through leadership opportunities industry visibility and thought leadership engagement.
Competitive compensation package aligned with senior-level expertise and impact.
Key Skills
- APIs
- Pegasystems
- Spring
- SOAP
- .NET
- Hybris
- Solution Architecture
- Service-Oriented Architecture
- Adobe Experience Manager
- J2EE
- Java
- Oracle
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