Principal AI Platform Architect

We are seeking an experienced Principal AI Platform Architect to define and build the next generation of our AI platform and cloud-native application ecosystem. This is a senior technical leadership role responsible for designing scalable secure and resilient platforms that enable AI-powered products intelligent automation and modern software development across the organization.

The ideal candidate is hands on technologist with extensive experience designing cloud-native applications and AI-enabled platforms. They understand how modern APIs event-driven systems orchestration frameworks and agentic AI capabilities come together to create enterprise-scale solutions that are secure observable and operationally efficient.

This role partners closely with product leadership engineering teams and executive stakeholders to establish architectural direction define platform standards and guide the implementation of next-generation AI capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build a scalable AI platform supporting LLMs agentic workflows and federated development across multiple teams
• Establish architectural standards for AI governance security evaluation strategies and operational excellence
• Architect cloud-native solutions on Google Cloud Platform supporting enterprise-scale workloads
• Define platform patterns for microservices event-driven architectures and API-first design
• Build CICD pipelines that deploy automatically to the cloud while interfacing with legacy systems
• Provide architecture guidance and governance across engineering teams through reviews and standards
• Balance strategic platform vision with hands-on implementation to earn respect from engineering teams
• Enable teams to add new components agents and functionalities within the overarching platform

Qualifications :

Required Qualifications & Technical Experience

• 10 years designing and delivering enterprise software platforms with proven success at scale
• Strong GCP expertise - deep understanding of Google Cloud Platform services semantics and AI capabilities (Vertex AI preferred)
• AI platform experience building production systems that support product use cases including agentic frameworks LLMs and orchestration
• Evaluation strategy experience - particularly building eval loops in production for monitoring and tuning AI systems (highly preferred)
• Event-driven architecture and distributed systems expertise with understanding of microservices and APIs
• Platform security and governance knowledge including responsible AI practices
• Python proficiency (primary language for AI development) plus experience with Kubernetes Docker and cloud-native tools
• Exceptional communication skills with ability to influence technical direction across multiple engineering organizations

What Success Looks Like

Within your first year you will:

• Establish the architectural vision for our enterprise AI platform.
• Define reusable cloud-native platform patterns supporting AI-enabled applications.
• Enable engineering teams through standardized platform capabilities and architectural guidance.
• Improve platform scalability security observability and operational efficiency.
• Accelerate the adoption of AI capabilities while ensuring strong governance reliability and engineering quality.

Additional Information :

Additional Information

We believe that great things happen when people connect face-to-face. Thats why we work in-person with each other or with customers and partners three days a week or more. When youre not spending time together in one of our offices or other workplaces like at an Informa event you get the flexibility and support to work from home or remotely.

TechTarget Inc. doing business as Informa TechTarget including its subsidiaries is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal state and local fair employment practices laws. We strictly prohibit and do not tolerate discrimination against employees applicants or any other covered persons because of race color sex (including pregnancy) age national origin or ancestry ethnicity religion creed sexual orientation gender identity or expression status as a veteran and basis of disability or any other federal state or local protected class. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including but not limited to hiring training promotion discipline compensation benefits and termination of employment. If you would like to request reasonable adjustments or accommodations to assist your participation in the hiring process and or in the advertised position please inform the appropriate Talent Acquisition Partner for the role once they have been in touch. Your request will be reviewed and considered in confidence. 

Informa TechTarget complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) as amended by the ADA Amendments Act and all applicable federal state or local law.

Our benefits include: 

• Great community: a welcoming culture with in-person and online social events our fantastic Walk the World charity day and active colleague groups and networks promoting a positive supportive and collaborative work environment
• Broader impact: take up to four days per year to volunteer with a philanthropic organization
• Career opportunity: the opportunity to develop your career with bespoke training and learning mentoring platforms and on-demand access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn Learning. When its time for the next step we encourage and support internal job moves 
• Time out: Open Vacation plus 10 national holidays and the chance to work from (almost!) anywhere for up to four weeks a year 
• Competitive benefits including a 401k match health vision and dental insurance parental leave and an ESPP offering company shares at a minimum 15% discount 
• Strong wellbeing support through EAP assistance mental health first aiders free access to a wellness app and more 
• Recognition for great work with global awards and kudos programs 
• As an international company the chance to collaborate with teams around the world 

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time