Senior AI Architect
Posted 4 days ago by Skillfinder International
Negotiable
Inside
Remote
London, United Kingdom
Summary: The Senior AI Architect role is a contract position focused on designing and developing AI applications using advanced large language models and cloud-native architecture within an enterprise environment. The position involves leading the architectural standards and collaborating with engineering and DevOps teams to build scalable AI systems, particularly on the Azure cloud platform. This role is ideal for an AI specialist with extensive experience in software architecture and AI/ML development. The contract is extendable and classified as inside IR35.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design & build AI-driven applications using LLMs for summarisation, generation, Q&A, and reasoning.
- Integrate agentic AI frameworks to create autonomous/semi-autonomous workflows.
- Lead architecture for scalable AI/ML service deployment, model orchestration, and monitoring.
- Deliver full-stack Azure-based solutions with secure backend, frontend, and data services.
- Collaborate with DevOps/MLOps teams to streamline CI/CD pipelines for AI workloads.
- Provide technical leadership and shape wider AI strategy across the programme.
Key Skills:
- 8+ years in software architecture / enterprise solutions.
- 3+ years of hands-on AI/ML development experience.
- Strong Azure cloud architecture expertise.
- Proficiency with LLMs, RAG, agent-based systems, and data science techniques.
- Frontend experience (React, Angular or Vue) integrated with backend AI services.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Senior AI Architect – Contract Role Driving Autonomous AI on Azure
Are you an AI specialist with a passion for large language models, cutting-edge agentic frameworks, and cloud-native architecture? Join a major programme shaping the future of intelligent systems within an enterprise environment.
We’re hiring a Senior AI Architect for an extendable contract role (inside IR35). You’ll lead the design and development of AI applications using state-of-the-art LLMs (e.g. OpenAI, Gemini, Mistral), advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and frameworks like LangGraph, CrewAI, and AutoGen .
This is a high-impact opportunity to set architectural standards, collaborate across engineering and DevOps teams, and build production-grade AI systems at scale—particularly across the Azure cloud ecosystem.
What you’ll do:
- Design & build AI-driven applications using LLMs for summarisation, generation, Q&A, and reasoning.
- Integrate agentic AI frameworks to create autonomous/semi-autonomous workflows.
- Lead architecture for scalable AI/ML service deployment, model orchestration, and monitoring.
- Deliver full-stack Azure-based solutions with secure backend, frontend, and data services.
- Collaborate with DevOps/MLOps teams to streamline CI/CD pipelines for AI workloads.
- Provide technical leadership and shape wider AI strategy across the programme.
Essential skills:
- 8+ years in software architecture / enterprise solutions.
- 3+ years of hands-on AI/ML development experience.
- Strong Azure cloud architecture expertise.
- Proficiency with LLMs, RAG, agent-based systems, and data science techniques.
- Frontend experience (React, Angular or Vue) integrated with backend AI services.
Nice to have:
- Experience guiding multidisciplinary teams in a regulated or enterprise setting.