Enterprise AI Architect & Lead, Agentic Systems

Kyndryl Inc.; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Kyndryl Inc. is seeking a Forward Deployed Lead / Principal Engineer focused on AI & Agentic Engineering to own the technical direction and delivery of major enterprise AI programmes.

You will architect agentic systems and gen AI apps in production, align AI architectures with enterprise goals, and guide teams through design, build and deployment in collaboration with platform engineers. You will establish AI governance, champion engineering best practices, and serve as a technical reference on

Qualifications

• 8–10+ years in software or solution engineering, with a track record of shipping AI systems in client-facing engagements.
• Strong Python engineering (FastAPI), with solid SDLC practices: design, testing, code review, CI/CD, Git & GitHub.
• Hands-on experience with agentic AI frameworks (examples include LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, Semantic Kernel, OpenAI’s Agents SDK, and Google’s Agent Development Kit) and MCP (Model Context Protocol).
• Practical experience building RAG/LLM-based pipelines and working with vector databases.
• Experience with relational and graph databases (e.g. Postgres, Neo4j) for data modelling behind AI applications.
• Hands-on familiarity with modern AI coding copilots (e.g. Claude, Codex, Cursor).
• Strong stakeholder communication, translating AI capability into business outcomes for senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design and build agentic AI applications and multi-agent workflows, along with the frameworks that run them, for enterprise use cases.
• Build RAG pipelines and integrate LLM APIs, vector databases, and MCP (Model Context Protocol) tooling.
• Process unstructured data into condensed, structured knowledge, including ontology extraction.
• Write production-grade Python services (FastAPI) with solid engineering practices: design, testing, code review, CI/CD.
• Work with relational and graph databases (e.g. Postgres, Neo4j) to model and serve data behind AI applications.
• Work closely with platform engineering throughout deployment — hosting, scaling, and MLOps/LLMOps — without owning that infrastructure yourself.
• Define AI governance and responsible-use guardrails: data privacy boundaries, LLM governance, and policy enforcement (OPA/Rego).
• Instrument AI applications for observability (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus) so behaviour and cost stay visible in production.
• Translate enterprise requirements into AI solution roadmaps for senior stakeholders.
• Capture field learnings, codify reusable agentic patterns, and mentor engineers hands-on.
• Provide architectural oversight across multi-disciplinary workstreams, staying close enough to unblock the team directly.

Skills

Python engineering

FastAPI

SDLC practices

Agentic AI frameworks

RAG pipelines

Vector databases

Postgres/Neo4j

LLM governance

OpenTelemetry/Prometheus

Stakeholder communication

Education

Degree in Computer Science/Data Science/Engineering

Tools

LangGraph

CrewAI

AutoGen

Semantic Kernel

OpenAI Agents SDK

Google Agent Development Kit

Claude

Codex

Job description

Kyndryl Inc. is seeking a Forward Deployed Lead / Principal Engineer focused on AI & Agentic Engineering to own the technical direction and delivery of major enterprise AI programmes.

You will architect agentic systems and gen AI apps in production, align AI architectures with enterprise goals, and guide teams through design, build and deployment in collaboration with platform engineers. You will establish AI governance, champion engineering best practices, and serve as a technical reference on