AI Architect: Strategy, Governance & AI Solutions

Joma Jewellery & Katie Loxton; Banbury; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary DOE

33 days holiday

Staff discount

Career development

Innovative workplace

Job summary

Joma Jewellery & Katie Loxton is hiring an AI Architect to lead our AI capability, roadmap, governance and adoption framework across the business, working with the Head of IT & Systems and leaders to identify where AI adds value. This hands‑on, collaborative role turns AI opportunities into secure, practical solutions that boost productivity, automate processes and support better decision‑making.

It also shapes responsible AI use with standards, training and governance for safe deployment.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering AI, automation or digital transformation initiatives within a business environment.
• Strong understanding of AI governance, data security, privacy and responsible AI principles.
• The ability to translate business processes into practical AI‑enabled workflows.
• Strong communication and user enablement skills, with the ability to make AI accessible to both technical and non‑technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining a prioritised AI roadmap and governed backlog of AI use cases aligned with business priorities.
• Identifying and assessing AI opportunities across departments, prioritising those with the greatest potential business value.
• Aligning AI initiatives with our wider Systems roadmap and business priorities.
• Helping teams distinguish between quick wins, strategic opportunities and inappropriate AI use cases.
• Evaluating and recommending AI platforms, models and technologies based on business need, security, scalability and commercial value.
• Establishing and managing a structured process for evaluating, prioritising and approving AI use cases across the business.
• Creating standards for the safe and effective use of approved AI platforms, including Claude, Copilot and future tools.
• Defining controls around data access, privacy, security, validation, accuracy and human review.
• Ensuring AI usage is governed, documented and appropriate for the sensitivity of the information involved.
• Collaborating with the Head of Systems and Senior IT & Systems Manager to align AI usage with systems and security controls.
• Monitoring compliance with AI governance standards and promoting responsible, secure and ethical use of AI technologies across the business.
• Developing and maintaining policies and guidance covering AI usage, data access, validation, human oversight and responsible use.
• Promoting ethical, transparent and responsible use of AI, ensuring appropriate human oversight and accountability for AI‑supported decisions.
• Designing AI‑enabled workflows, automations, analysis tools and decision‑support processes.
• Building prototypes and proofs of concept for priority AI use cases.
• Converting successful AI pilots into documented, standardised and supportable business processes with clear ownership and ongoing support.
• Partnering with the Senior IT & Systems Manager where use cases require data access, integration or automation support.
• Monitoring and continuously improving deployed AI solutions to ensure they remain effective, accurate and aligned with changing business requirements.
• Maintaining a central library of tested and approved prompts, AI workflows, reusable solutions and implementation guidance.
• Working with business and technology teams to identify data quality issues that may impact AI performance and solution effectiveness.
• Partnering with departments to identify repeated tasks, manual processes and analysis‑heavy workflows where AI could improve efficiency.
• Creating training, playbooks, prompt standards and practical examples to help business users get the most from approved AI tools.
• Defining and reporting measures of AI adoption, business value, user satisfaction and operational performance.
• Evaluating the impact of AI initiatives, ensuring solutions deliver demonstrable improvements in productivity, efficiency or decision‑making.
• Driving adoption of approved AI tools through business engagement, training and continuous improvement.
• Acting as the subject matter expert for AI across the business, providing advice, guidance and thought leadership on emerging capabilities and best practice.
• Building strong relationships across departments to champion AI adoption and identify opportunities for innovation and operational improvement.
• Supporting organisational change associated with AI adoption through communication, engagement and user education
• Supporting any other ad‑hoc duties as reasonably requested by the Company

Skills

AI governance

AI roadmap

Business-IT alignment

Stakeholder communication

Prototyping AI solutions

Security & privacy awareness

Change management

Tools

Claude

Copilot

Job description

Joma Jewellery & Katie Loxton is hiring an AI Architect to lead our AI capability, roadmap, governance and adoption framework across the business, working with the Head of IT & Systems and leaders to identify where AI adds value. This hands‑on, collaborative role turns AI opportunities into secure, practical solutions that boost productivity, automate processes and support better decision‑making.

It also shapes responsible AI use with standards, training and governance for safe deployment.