Lead AI Architect: End-to-End AI Systems & Strategy

Protect Group; Leeds; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Protect Group in Leeds is seeking an AI Architect to lead the design and governance of end-to-end AI architectures. You will collaborate with data science and product teams to ship reliable, secure AI solutions that scale across business units.

The role focuses on strategic thinking, stakeholder engagement, and implementing governance, security, and cost-aware patterns in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• Experience designing end-to-end AI architectures for production

Responsibilities

• Be part of the company’s AI vision and support technology development.
• Collaborate with leadership, sales, finance and risk to shape the product roadmap.
• Advise across departments to improve efficiency through AI.
• Develop and govern reference architectures for predictive ML, generative AI, and agentic systems.
• Define how data, models, and infrastructure fit together for reliable, secure AI.

Skills

Agile leadership

Strategic thinking

Excellent communication

Problem-solving

Non-technical stakeholder engagement

Tools

Azure AI

Foundry AI Hub

Computer Vision

Document Intelligence

Text Analytics

Translation Services

Python

ML/LLMs

C#/ .NET

SQL Server

Job description

Protect Group in Leeds is seeking an AI Architect to lead the design and governance of end-to-end AI architectures. You will collaborate with data science and product teams to ship reliable, secure AI solutions that scale across business units.

The role focuses on strategic thinking, stakeholder engagement, and implementing governance, security, and cost-aware patterns in a fast-moving environment.