Enterprise AI Architect: LLMs, Agents & Grounded Systems

Accenture UK & Ireland; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture UK & Ireland is seeking an hands-on AI/LLM Architect to design and build advanced AI systems for enterprise-scale engagements. You will lead architecture decisions, implement multi-agent orchestration, and integrate foundation models with robust governance and security considerations.

You will collaborate with data engineers, ML engineers, and application developers to deliver scalable AI solutions, drive architectural artifacts, and ensure alignment with enterprise non-functional

Qualifications

• Proven experience in designing & deploying enterprise-grade AI solutions using agentic, generative and classical AI/ML.
• Practical experience in the Agentic, LLM and Generative AI space.
• Well-versed in coding using Python.
• Solid foundation in architecting and operationalizing LLM-driven application architectures.
• Professional working experience in machine learning, deep learning and NLP solutions.

Responsibilities

• Independently design, build, and deliver software components across the AI architecture, end-to-end.
• Design and build AI agent architectures, prompts, tools, and skills with multi-agent orchestration.
• Design and implement agent orchestration patterns for task handoffs, state management, and error recovery.
• Evaluate design options balancing capability, cost, performance, and reliability.
• Architect and implement foundation model integrations (fine-tuning, RAG, custom integration).
• Build embedding, vector storage, and retrieval into end-to-end RAG pipelines.
• Design for cost efficiency and performance, optimizing model usage and latency.
• Build governance including versioning, audit logging, and data lineage.

Skills

Agentic AI experience

Generative AI experience

Python coding

LLM architecture

Cloud deployment

Education

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent

Job description

Accenture UK & Ireland is seeking an hands-on AI/LLM Architect to design and build advanced AI systems for enterprise-scale engagements. You will lead architecture decisions, implement multi-agent orchestration, and integrate foundation models with robust governance and security considerations.

You will collaborate with data engineers, ML engineers, and application developers to deliver scalable AI solutions, drive architectural artifacts, and ensure alignment with enterprise non-functional