About this role
Salary: £90,000 - 95,000 per year
Requirements
- Proven experience designing and owning enterprise-scale AI or ML platforms
- Strong architecture experience across Azure and AWS, including multi-cloud integration, networking, IAM and security
- Deep understanding of MLOps, model training pipelines, orchestration, feature stores, model hosting and observability
- Strong Generative AI architecture experience, including LLM hosting, RAG, vector databases, prompt orchestration and guardrails
- Knowledge of AI platform tooling such as Azure ML, Amazon SageMaker, MLflow, Kubeflow and Databricks
- Ability to evaluate technologies and make evidence-based architectural decisions
- Experience designing secure, scalable and cost-optimised AI infrastructure
- Strong architecture documentation skills, including reference architectures and capability models
- Ability to guide technical delivery, influence engineering teams and resolve complex architecture challenges
- Experience within financial services, insurance or another regulated industry is advantageous
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end architecture of an enterprise AI platform across Azure and AWS
- Design capabilities for ML training, model hosting, MLOps and Generative AI
- Define architecture patterns for LLMs, RAG, vector search and agent-based frameworks
- Evaluate AI technologies and select appropriate tooling based on technical, security and cost requirements
- Produce architecture blueprints, technical standards, reference architectures and design documentation
- Design secure multi-cloud integration patterns covering data, models and services
- Provide technical direction to ML engineers, platform engineers and wider delivery teams
- Embed security, responsible AI, governance and regulatory requirements into the platform
- Optimise AI infrastructure for scalability, performance, resilience and cost
Technologies
- AI
- AWS
- Architect
- Azure
- Cloud
- Databricks
- IAM
- Kubeflow
- LLM
- Machine Learning
- MLflow
- MLOps
- Model Training
- RAG
- Security
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We have partnered with a major international organisation in a highly regulated industry to recruit an AI Platform Architect. The role offers significant ownership of the technical direction of an enterprise AI platform spanning Azure and AWS, supporting traditional machine learning, Generative AI, LLMs and emerging AI technologies. You will work closely with AI engineering, security and enterprise architecture stakeholders, remaining technically involved while influencing how enterprise AI capabilities are designed and delivered. The role is based in London or Horsham, with a hybrid arrangement requiring three days in the office. The salary is £90,000–£95,000 plus a 25% bonus.
last updated 43 week of 2026