AI Architect & Identity Platform Lead (Remote)

Smart Communications group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Income protection

Life assurance

Gym membership

Leisure travel insurance

Pension contribution

25 days holiday + birthday leave

Job summary

Smart Communications in London seeks an AI Architect to unite authentication and RBAC across the Conversation Cloud suite, delivering secure, scalable identity across products.

You will define target architectures, produce roadmaps, mentor engineers, and shape how AI capabilities are integrated as the platform evolves.

This role offers a competitive package and the chance to influence security and platform direction in a fast-moving AI environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing authentication and authorisation systems at scale.
• Experience spanning multiple products or services within a SaaS environment.
• Strong knowledge of identity and access management security best practice.
• Ability to communicate architecture clearly to engineers and business functions.
• Senior/principal level experience shaping technical direction.

Responsibilities

• Architect unified cross-product authentication and identity strategy.
• Design RBAC models to ensure consistent permissions across the Conversation Cloud suite.
• Partner with security, platform and product teams to define target architecture and migration path.
• Produce architecture designs, decision records and technical roadmaps.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineers.
• Present architectural decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Help define how AI capabilities are introduced into the platform.

Skills

OAuth2/OIDC/SAML experience

SaaS multi-product architecture

IAM security best practices

Senior/principal architect

Clear architecture communication

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Smart Communications in London seeks an AI Architect to unite authentication and RBAC across the Conversation Cloud suite, delivering secure, scalable identity across products.

You will define target architectures, produce roadmaps, mentor engineers, and shape how AI capabilities are integrated as the platform evolves.

This role offers a competitive package and the chance to influence security and platform direction in a fast-moving AI environment.