AI Platform Architect

Salary: £90,000 - 100,000 per year

Requirements:

• Proven experience as an AI Architect, Enterprise Architect or Machine Learning Architect delivering enterprise AI solutions.
• Strong experience designing end-to-end AI/ML platforms and production-ready architectures.
• Hands-on knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and cloud-native AI services.
• Experience with MLOps, LLMOps or AI platform engineering, including model lifecycle management and deployment pipelines.
• Strong understanding of AI governance, model risk, auditability and responsible AI practices.
• Experience working within regulated industries, ideally banking or financial services.
• Knowledge of cloud security, IAM, networking and secure architecture principles.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage both technical and business audiences.
• Desirable experience with Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and AI Agents.
• Desirable experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform or Infrastructure as Code.
• Desirable experience delivering AI transformation programmes within enterprise organisations.

Responsibilities:

• Design end-to-end AI and Machine Learning architectures, from data ingestion through to model deployment and monitoring.
• Define scalable cloud-native AI solutions using Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Lead the architecture of enterprise AI platforms supporting both traditional Machine Learning and Generative AI use cases.
• Drive best practices across MLOps, LLMOps and AgentOps, including CI/CD, model registries, feature stores, lineage tracking and observability.
• Design secure, resilient real-time, batch and streaming AI inference solutions.
• Ensure AI solutions meet governance, security, regulatory and compliance requirements within financial services.
• Collaborate with engineering, data, security and business teams to deliver production-ready AI capabilities.
• Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance across multiple workstreams.

Technologies:

• AI
• AI Agents
• Architect
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Docker
• GCP
• IAM
• Kubernetes
• Machine Learning
• MLOps
• RAG
• Security
• Terraform

More:

We are a global technology consultancy delivering one of the UKs largest AI transformation programmes within the banking sector. This AI Architect role is based in London on a hybrid basis, with 1–2 days per week in the office, and offers a salary of £80,000–£100,000 plus bonus and excellent benefits. We are looking for someone to help us design and deliver enterprise-scale AI solutions for a major financial services client, working across architecture, engineering and business teams to define AI strategy and build secure, governed, production-ready AI platforms.

last updated 31 week of 2026