AI Architecture Leader: From Strategy to Production

MRJ Recruitment Limited; Manchester; Sur place; GBP 90 000 - 130 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

MRJ Recruitment Limited partnerships with a business at the outset of its AI journey to define and implement a new AI capability, shaping how AI integrates into the technology landscape and setting architectural direction, standards and delivery approaches.

You will work across technology, data, security, product and operations to design AI-enabled products and workflows, balancing speed with security and long-term maintainability while remaining close to delivery from prototype to production.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering cloud-based AI solutions in live production.
• Hands-on with modern AI patterns: LLMs, RAG, agents, and automation.
• Strong integration, security, and enterprise architecture knowledge.

Responsabilités

• Define the target architecture and technical roadmap for the organisation's AI capability.
• Translate business problems into solution designs and delivery increments.
• Design end-to-end AI solutions spanning data, models, retrieval, agents, applications, APIs, and cloud services.
• Establish reference architectures and guardrails for generative AI, RAG, intelligent automation and agentic workflows.
• Lead technical discovery and rapid proofs of value, then shape the route from prototype to production.
• Set expectations for security, privacy, observability, resilience, evaluation, human oversight and responsible AI.
• Assess model, platform and vendor options, including build-versus-buy decisions, commercial implications and lock-in risk.
• Partner with engineering and delivery teams through implementation, resolving design decisions without creating unnecessary governance.
• Communicate complex architecture clearly to executives, delivery teams and non-technical stakeholders.
• Help build the team, engineering culture and technical capability needed to scale AI across the business.

Connaissances

Cloud architecture

AI architecture

LLM patterns

RAG

Agent orchestration

APIs

Security

Executive influence

Description du poste

MRJ Recruitment Limited partnerships with a business at the outset of its AI journey to define and implement a new AI capability, shaping how AI integrates into the technology landscape and setting architectural direction, standards and delivery approaches.

You will work across technology, data, security, product and operations to design AI-enabled products and workflows, balancing speed with security and long-term maintainability while remaining close to delivery from prototype to production.