Senior Azure AI Architect for Enterprise Platforms

EPAM Systems; Bellprat; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension plan

Disability insurance

Long-term disability insurance

ESPP

Laptop + corporate SIM

Bike lease

Employee Assistance Program

Training and certifications

Job summary

EPAM Systems, Inc. is seeking an experienced Senior AI Architect to design and scale enterprise AI platforms on Microsoft Azure in a hybrid Netherlands environment.

You will shape target-state architectures for AI assistants, RAG systems and AI-native engineering workflows, aligning business outcomes with practical architecture and secure delivery patterns. You will lead governance, observability, cost controls and security across multi-client programs, collaborating with Microsoft/GitHub

Qualifications

• 10+ years in solution architecture, cloud platforms or platform engineering.
• Strong experience with enterprise AI, GenAI, agentic systems, RAG and AI-native engineering.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Azure and modern cloud-native architecture.
• Knowledge of GitHub workflows (CI/CD, DevOps, IaC) and secure engineering practices.
• Track record of moving AI initiatives beyond PoC to production environments.
• Ability to explain production-ready AI delivery and governance.

Responsibilities

• Define target-state architectures for AI platforms, assistants, RAG systems and AI-native workflows.
• Lead architecture discovery, roadmaps and delivery governance.
• Design Azure-first architectures using Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search and related services.
• Create reusable patterns, accelerators and blueprints for AI delivery.
• Mentor architects and engineers and contribute to presales and solution design.

Skills

AI architecture

GenAI

Azure cloud

GitHub workflows

Enterprise AI

Governance

FinOps

Security & compliance

AI ethics

Solution architecture

Tools

Terraform/IaC

Kubernetes/AKS

CI/CD

GitHub Advanced Security

Azure API Management

Job description

EPAM Systems, Inc. is seeking an experienced Senior AI Architect to design and scale enterprise AI platforms on Microsoft Azure in a hybrid Netherlands environment.

You will shape target-state architectures for AI assistants, RAG systems and AI-native engineering workflows, aligning business outcomes with practical architecture and secure delivery patterns. You will lead governance, observability, cost controls and security across multi-client programs, collaborating with Microsoft/GitHub