AI Architect / Principal AI Engineer
HybridLondon, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Own architecture and design for Sierra PoC and Claude roll-out initiatives, driving the build of agentic AI solutions for Tribeless colleagues. Consult on the broader Colleague AI backlog, ensuring solutions are fit for purpose, secure, and cost-efficient amid consumption-based pricing. Define and embed AI engineering standards, reference architectures, and reusable patterns while governing shadow AI usage across the business. Lead AI literacy and enablement across Digital, mentor the Automation Practice team, and represent the practice in cross-functional forums to translate strategy into delivery roadmaps. Transition the organisation from isolated experiments to a fully resourced, governed, and scalable AI delivery capability.
Required Qualifications
- Deep, hands-on technical leadership experience at Principal/Lead level
- Strong expertise in Generative AI, LLMs, agentic architectures, and multi-agent systems
- Proven production delivery in regulated environments
- Proven experience building agentic solutions using Microsoft Copilot Studio/Foundry
- Proven experience building agentic solutions using AWS Bedrock/AgentCore
- Proven experience building agentic solutions using frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, Strands
- Comfortable across Microsoft and AWS cloud ecosystems
- Experience with LLM gateway/Bedrock patterns
- Experience with data residency
- Experience with SSO/OIDC federation
- Experience with cost controls
- Experience with Claude/Anthropic
- Experience with OpenAI
- Experience with Microsoft Copilot families
- Experience with MCP
- Experience with connectors
- Experience with skills
- Strong understanding of AI testing disciplines (accuracy, hallucination, bias, prompt evaluations)
- Strong understanding of AI governance/risk (DPIA, data classification, FCA considerations)
- Excellent stakeholder management skills
- Mentorship and capability-building mindset
Desired Qualifications
- experience in Financial Services (FS)
- experience with Sierra PoC
- experience with Claude roll-out
- experience with AI enablement
- experience with AI Citizen Development Framework
- experience with Copilot Continuous Improvement
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