AI Technical Architect ( Senior Leadership role) in London

• Write, deploy and maintain production-grade AI systems, custom evaluation pipelines and high-performance synthetic data generation engines.
• Architect robust, scalable agentic loops, including ReAct patterns, state machines and human-in-the-loop workflows.
• Design systems that manage complex state, use context efficiently and degrade gracefully in production.
• Guide solution architecture and technology decisions for scalable, secure and resilient AI systems.
• Drive engineering excellence across development, testing, deployment, monitoring and production support.

AI programme & delivery leadership

• Own end-to-end delivery of multiple simultaneous AI/ML, GenAI and Agentic AI programmes.
• Define delivery strategy, execution plans, milestones, governance processes and success metrics.
• Drive project execution from discovery through production deployment and operationalisation.
• Manage programme risks, dependencies, budget, scope, quality and schedule.
• Establish delivery governance and reporting mechanisms across multiple customer engagements.
• Ensure predictable delivery while maintaining engineering quality and innovation standards.
• Drive adoption of best practices for AI Engineering, MLOps, LLMOps, evaluation, observability and Responsible AI.

Technical leadership & review

• Enforce an exceptionally high engineering standard through rigorous code reviews and scalable architectural patterns.
• Bridge the gap between open-ended research and robust software engineering.
• Work closely with architects, principal engineers, data scientists, researchers and platform teams on client side.
• Review technical risks, architecture decisions, evaluation methodologies and implementation approaches.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and identify opportunities for customer innovation.
• Pioneer the integration of AI coding assistants and automation into CI/CD and engineering lifecycles to maximise velocity.

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