Lead Agentic AI Architect

Job title: Lead Agentic AI Architect

Rate: £710 per day Inside ir35 Location: London, Birmingham, or Sheffield (Whichever is closest)

Hybrid (3 days per week on site) Contract: 6-month rolling

On behalf of a leading digital transformation consultancy, we're seeking a Lead Agentic AI Architect to join a major enterprise AI transformation programme with a leading UK bank.

This is a genuinely senior opportunity to define the architecture, engineering standards and delivery of next-generation Agentic AI and Generative AI solutions within a complex, highly regulated environment. You'll operate at the intersection of AI strategy, enterprise architecture and hands-on engineering, taking ambitious AI initiatives from concept and roadmap through to secure, scalable production.

Responsibilities

You'll take ownership of the architecture for enterprise AI capabilities, including:

Agentic AI platforms, AI assistants, copilots and autonomous workflows Multi-agent systems incorporating reasoning, planning, memory, orchestration and tool integration Production-grade LLM and RAG architectures Intelligent search, knowledge assistants, workflow automation and decision-support systems Enterprise LLMOps, MLOps, observability and AI governance AI security, guardrails, evaluation and Responsible AI Cloud AI platforms and hybrid/multi-cloud architecture

You'll also provide technical leadership across architects, engineers and data scientists while working with senior stakeholders to shape AI strategy, roadmaps, investment priorities and transformation programmes.

Expereince Required:

We're looking for an established AI architecture or engineering leader with:

15+ years of software engineering, architecture or platform leadership 8+ years delivering AI/ML platforms into production Proven experience architecting and deploying Agentic AI, LLM and Generative AI solutions at enterprise scale Strong experience with RAG and LLM application architectures A background within banking, financial services or another highly regulated environment Experience leading large engineering teams and complex technology transformations A track record of taking AI platforms from strategy and architecture through to production and operationalisation Strong executive stakeholder engagement and the ability to translate AI capabilities into measurable business outcomes

Technology:

Agentic AI & GenAI Multi-Agent Systems | Agentic AI Architecture | RAG | LLM Applications | Prompt Engineering | Responsible AI | AI Evaluation

Frameworks LangChain | LangGraph | Semantic Kernel | AutoGen

Cloud & AI Platforms Azure AI Foundry | Azure OpenAI | AWS Bedrock | SageMaker | Google Vertex AI | Hybrid/Multi-Cloud

Engineering & Platform Python | Java | Scala | TypeScript | SQL | Kubernetes | Docker | Terraform | Bicep | CI/CD | Infrastructure as Code

AI Governance & Observability LLMOps | MLOps | Model Governance | AI Security & Guardrails | LangSmith | Arize | Monitoring & Evaluation Frameworks

Qualifications

Relevant qualifications may include:

Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, Data Science or related discipline AWS Solutions Architect Professional AWS AI/ML Specialty Microsoft Azure AI Engineer Google Professional ML Engineer Executive AI / Machine Learning qualifications

If you're an AI Architect, Lead AI Architect, Head of AI Engineering, AI Platform Lead, Director of AI Engineering or senior AI technology leader with genuine production-scale experience, please feel free to submit your CV