Senior Enterprise Architect (AI Focused)

Position Overview

We are seeking a Senior Enterprise Architect (AI-Focused) to lead our enterprise AI strategy and drive the design of scalable cloud-native AI solutions. This role will focus on agentic AI multi-agent systems RAG architectures and enterprise AI integration aligned to business goals.

You will establish best practices for AI architecture orchestration governance and responsible AI while partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver secure production-grade solutions across the organisation.

We understand the need to provide a flexible working environment partnered with team collaboration and socialisation. Therefore we operate a hybrid working model with 3 days of working from home per week. This role is based in the London office. We are also open to candidates that are UK remote.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and lead the enterprise AI architecture strategy aligning agentic AI capabilities with business goals

• Design and govern scalable AI architectures including multi agent systems data pipelines and model lifecycle management

• Drive adoption of agentic AI frameworks and establish best practices for orchestration tool usage and system integration

• Architect and oversee RAG based solutions ensuring effective retrieval pipelines embedding strategies and knowledge integration

• Lead integration of AI solutions across enterprise platforms APIs and third-party services

• Establish standards for prompt engineering multi-step orchestration and agent behaviour design

• Ensure robust governance including security compliance auditability and responsible AI practices

• Collaborate with engineering data and business teams to deliver production grade AI systems

• Provide technical leadership across cloud native AI platforms particularly within Azure ecosystems

• Mentor teams on AI architecture patterns emerging technologies and implementation strategies

Must Have:

Core AI Architecture

• Experience designing AI solutions using agentic AI patterns orchestration frameworks and large language models

Data Retrieval & Integration

• Strong understanding of data architecture vector search retrieval-augmented generation APIs and enterprise system integration

Cloud & Platform Architecture

• Hands-on experience with Azure AI services cloud-native architecture and deploying secure scalable AI platforms in production

Governance Security & Delivery

• Proven ability to define architecture standards covering security compliance responsible AI observability and production delivery

Technical Leadership

• Ability to guide engineering teams on solution design implementation patterns and technology choices for enterprise AI adoption

Knowledge of but not essential:

C#

• API development

DevOps

• CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions)

• Docker

• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or Bicep)

Frontend Integration

• Angular or React for agent-facing UIs or dashboards

MCP (Model Context Protocol)

• Tool integration with agents

• MCP Apps (formerly MCP-UI) for interactive UI components

Observability & Evaluation

• LangSmith or similar tracing/evaluation tools

Streaming & Real-Time Responses

• SSE WebSockets

Testing Non-Deterministic AI Outputs

• Evaluation strategies golden datasets regression testing

Cost Management & Token Budgeting

• Token usage model trade-offs caching strategies

Multi-Agent Orchestration

• Designing collaborative agent systems with delegation and handoffs

Fine-Tuning / Model Customisation

• Adapting models for domain-specific use cases

Authentication & Identity

• OAuth managed identities

Logging & Audit Trails

• Compliance and traceability for agent decisions/actions

Additional LLM Providers

• Experience beyond Azure OpenAI (e.g. Anthropic open-source via Ollama/vLLM)

Graph Databases

• Neo4j or similar for knowledge graph-backed agents

Message Queues / Event-Driven Architecture

• Azure Service Bus

Security & Guardrails

• Content filtering prompt injection mitigation PII handling

API Design

• REST / GraphQL for exposing agent capabilities

About Us

From the day we opened our doors MRI Software has built flexible game-changing real estate software that powers thriving communities and helps make the world a better place to live work and play. Fulfilling that mission is only possible because of one thing: exceptional people. People like you!

Our people-first approach to PropTech is defining a new industry standard for client experiences that quite frankly cant be duplicated. Experiences that deliver real value every day. And we know those experiences begin with our people.

We believe MRI is more than just a workplace; its a connected community of people who truly feel they belong. Whether were investing in employee resource groups or providing tailored resources for each person to reach their full potential were passionate about creating a work environment that makes you excited to show up every single day.

At MRI one of our core values is to strive to amaze. From the intelligent solutions we create to the culture we cultivate thats our goal every day. Because thats what industry leaders do. Whether youre joining as a new Pride member or rejoining us after a short time away your talent is vital to us our partners and our clients.

Amazing growth requires amazing employees. Are you up to the challenge

We know confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting remarkable candidates so please dont hesitate to apply. Wed love to hear from you!

MRI is proud to be an inclusive employer. We welcome and celebrate diversity across all backgrounds including ethnicity religion sexual orientation gender identity disability age military veteran status and more.

We believe that Belonging is a direct result of Diversity Equity and Inclusion. Those values are woven into the fabric of who we are and are foundational to our continued success. Come and see for yourself!