Principal AI Architect (Google Cloud)

Salary: £61,000 - 101,000 per year

Requirements:

• Proven experience designing, solutioning, and deploying agentic platforms and AI systems into production
• Deep understanding of AI evaluation methodologies and guardrail implementations
• Hands-on experience with agentic frameworks such as Google ADK and LangGraph
• Experience with LLMs including Gemini, Claude, and open-source models
• Experience with cloud and database architecture including Cloud SQL, Firestore, BigQuery, and Postgres
• Experience with AI security and observability tools such as OpenTelemetry, guardrails, and LLM gateways
• Mastery of data preparation strategies for AI workloads, data acquisition, and orchestration frameworks for data and AI pipelines
• Strong background in either Data Platform Infrastructure or Full-Stack Application Architecture, with awareness of application design and UX principles
• Advanced proficiency in cloud security, networking, and production deployment environments
• Prior hands-on experience building and deploying platforms
• Strong presentation capabilities with a demonstrated history of advising senior client stakeholders
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, manage competing priorities under tight timelines, and take ownership of project outcomes
• Preferred experience working within Google Cloud environments
• Background working within high-growth startups, scale-ups, or modern enterprise transformation environments

Responsibilities:

• Own the end-to-end design and delivery of scalable data and AI platforms from initial discovery through to production deployment
• Build data platforms, full-stack application architectures, and agentic AI platforms
• Own the end-to-end technical design of complex projects, ensuring architectures are scalable, secure, and aligned with client business objectives
• Conduct technical scoping during client intake and support account growth by designing viable technical solutions
• Act as the primary technical interface for client-side CTOs, Heads of Engineering, and Transformation Leaders
• Translate complex technical architectures into clear, non-technical business strategy
• Define and implement strategies across networking, data acquisition, security, guardrails, and AI/data workload orchestration
• Partner closely with internal delivery leads, AI/data engineers, and commercial teams to drive cohesive project execution

Technologies:

• Agentic AI
• AI
• Architect
• BigQuery
• Cloud
• Embedded
• Support
• LLM
• Machine Learning
• OpenTelemetry
• SQL
• Security
• UX UI Design
• AI Agents
• GCP

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We are Datatonic, Google Clouds premier partner in AI, driving transformation for world-class businesses through machine learning, data engineering, and analytics on Google Cloud. This Principal AI Architect role is a builder-led, delivery-focused architecture position with direct involvement across the full lifecycle of cutting-edge platforms, from pre-sales and strategy through active production deployment. You will join an engineering-first architecture group embedded alongside senior and principal engineers, working with AI enthusiasts and data experts in London on a full-time, on-site basis. We offer benefits including 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, private health insurance, fitness and wellbeing discounts, a WFH allowance, access to learning platforms like Udemy, pension contributions after probation, life insurance, income protection, and additional schemes such as Tusker Green Car, Cycle to Work, and Tech Scheme.

last updated 37 week of 2026