AI Architect

The Opportunity

Join HBKs Chief Digital Officer organisation as our AI Architect reporting directly to the Director of Digital Futures. You will define and deliver our enterprise AI strategy across our data ecosystems and platforms including SAP Salesforce Microsoft 365 CoPilot and internal team systems. Working with global business teams you will identify highvalue AI use cases architect intelligent agents and guide teams through adoption and scaling.

As we digitally transform HBK you will help define our world-leading AI capabilities in how we serve our customers and colleagues. Drawing on your extensive industry experience you will craft strategies to transform our architecture aligning it with and enabling our business objectives. You will provide unique industry-grounded technical thought leadership to our digital IT and application teams globally.

This is a unique opportunity to influence the future of HBKs digital landscape fostering collaboration across international teams and setting industry standards. Your contributions will be instrumental in shaping our business to meet the evolving needs of our customers worldwide.

Enterprise AI Architecture Strategy

• Develop and implement enterprise-wide AI architectures for products and solutions embedding automation data governance and secure by design thinking within the organization.

• Lead the creation and review of AI system capability strategies and features that meet the strategic requirements of the business ensuring buy-in from all key stakeholders.

• Capture and prioritize market and environmental trends in AI impacting business strategies and objectives. Identify the business benefits of alternative strategies and develop compelling business cases for approval funding and prioritization of high-level AI initiatives.

• Set strategies policies standards and practices to ensure alignment and compliance between business strategies technology strategies and enterprise transformation activities enabled by AI.

AI Architecture Leadership

• Develop organizational policies standards and guidelines for AI solution configuration design deployment and maintenance.

• Lead the development of AI architectures for complex solutions ensuring consistency with agreed requirements.

• Establish policies principles and practices for the selection of AI solution architecture components at a HBK wide level.

• Manage trade-offs and balances functional service quality and systems management requirements for HBK.

• Maintain a stable viable architecture at an enterprise level and ensures consistency of design and adherence to appropriate standards across the enterprise portfolio.

Role Competencies

AI Strategy & Innovation: Define enterprise AI strategy identify and prioritise business use cases evaluate emerging technologies and create AI roadmaps connecting enterprise systems to intelligent workflows.

Enterprise AI Architecture: Architect AI systems agent frameworks RAG pipelines and integration patterns while ensuring compliance with security governance and responsible AI standards.

AI Solution Design & Implementation: Lead design and development of AI agents and copilots that integrate with SAP Salesforce Microsoft 365 and other platforms. Provide training and enablement to teams adopting AI.

Digital Transformation & AI Leadership: Champion adoption coach crossfunctional teams and influence senior stakeholders on AI strategy and investment.

Performance Measurement: Establish OKRs and KPIs for AI initiatives and continuously evaluate solution performance.

Skills & Qualifications

• Autonomy: Operates under broad direction and manages complex AI solution delivery to time cost and quality targets.

• Influence & Leadership: Influences stakeholders builds expert networks and communicates complex AI concepts to nontechnical audiences.

• Complexity Management: Works across diverse enterprise systems and resolves technical and organisational barriers to AI adoption.

• Technical Expertise: Knowledge of Azure AI/OpenAI services MLOps tooling data governance API integrations cloud infrastructure and secure AI engineering practices including agentic /spec-driven development and orchestration.

Knowledge:

• Machine learning and deep learning concepts

• MLOps model deployment monitoring and lifecycle management

• Data engineering and pipeline architecture (ETL/ELT distributed systems)

• AI Systems & Platform Knowledge

• AI model integration with business applications

• Multiagent architectures and orchestration frameworks

• Generative AI model usage and constraints

• Knowledge of AI platforms (Azure AI AWS Google Cloud etc.)

Enterprise Architecture & Systems Design Skills:

• Across data application platform and integration layers

• Scalable and secure architectures

• AIenhanced enterprise architecture patterns

• Digital twins for testing architecture scenarios

• Knowledge graphs for grounding AI outputs

• AIassisted capability mapping

Responsible AI Governance & Security competence in:

• Responsible AI practices & compliance

• Data governance access control and lineage

• Guardrails for model safety and reliability

• Vulnerability detection (e.g. prompt manipulation model security)

Experience:

• Designing largescale distributed systems and integrating AI into enterprise workflows.

• Designing and deploying AI/ML systems and integrating AI with enterprise platforms such as SAP Salesforce and Microsoft 365.

• Modernizing legacy platforms using AIfirst strategies.

• Crossdomain architecture experience (EA frameworks cloud architecture microservices APIs) an advantage.

• Education: Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science AI Data Science Software Engineering or equivalent experience.

Why Explore a Career at HBK

• Competitive compensation and recognition for impactful contributions.

• Work From Anywhere policy supporting worklife balance.

• Comprehensive health insurance and generous vacation benefits.

• A culture of innovation continuous learning and global collaboration.

• Opportunities to work with international teams and access to learning resources for career advancement.

We Offer

At HBK we believe in freedom with responsibility enabling a healthy work-life balance and continuous professional development. You will join an international team in an innovative and enjoyable working environment.

About HBK

On January 1 2019 Brüel & Kjær and HBM merged to form HBK (Hottinger Brüel & Kjær). With over 3500 employees worldwide production facilities in Denmark Germany the UK the USA China and Portugal and a presence in 80 countries HBK is a global leader in test and measurement solutions. Learn more at .