Chief AI Platform Architect

Confidential; Greater London; On-site; GBP 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential is building the next generation AI-native platform for real estate, led from London with global operations. We seek a seasoned leader to own the end-to-end AI engineering architecture, drive multi-region deployment, and set governance and security standards for a fast-scaling venture.

You will hire and mentor teams, shape model strategy, ensure compliance with UK GDPR and cross-border data rules, and collaborate with executives to align architecture with business goals.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering with leadership experience.
• Proven delivery of production LLM/GenAI systems at scale.
• Deep architectural command of distributed systems, APIs and data platforms.
• Hands-on credibility in Python and at least one of TypeScript/Go/Java.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms and multi-region deployment.
• Working knowledge of data protection regimes (UK GDPR).
• Experience communicating technical trade-offs to boards and execs.

Responsibilities

• Define target-state architecture for multi-tenant SaaS platform with LLM layers.
• Lead and scale AI engineering team across London, Gulf and India.
• Shape model strategy, evaluation, RAG patterns and agent frameworks.
• Establish MLOps and LLMOps with CI/CD, observability and SLOs.
• Own cloud architecture and data residency design for cross-region workloads.
• Embed security and privacy by design for regulatory compliance (UK GDPR/Saudi PDPL).
• Institute AI governance with risk management and responsible-AI standards.
• Collaborate with product on roadmap feasibility and delivery status to executives.
• Manage vendor ecosystem for model providers, cloud, data and tooling.

Skills

LLM/GenAI systems

Engineering leadership

Distributed systems

Python

TypeScript/Go/Java

Cloud platforms

Security & compliance

Executive communication

Tools

AWS/Azure/GCP

Job description

Confidential is building the next generation AI-native platform for real estate, led from London with global operations. We seek a seasoned leader to own the end-to-end AI engineering architecture, drive multi-region deployment, and set governance and security standards for a fast-scaling venture.

You will hire and mentor teams, shape model strategy, ensure compliance with UK GDPR and cross-border data rules, and collaborate with executives to align architecture with business goals.