Lead AI Enterprise Architect — Strategy, Architecture & Cloud

Guidant Global; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Guidant Global is seeking a senior-level Enterprise Architect to lead AI-enabled architectural initiatives across the organisation. You will define and evolve an enterprise-wide AI architecture capability, ensuring coherence across strategy, delivery, operations, and assurance.

The role requires balancing innovation with risk, and communicating complex decisions to diverse audiences. The successful candidate will guide cloud integration and adoption, particularly within AWS ecosystems, shaping

Qualifications

• Senior or Lead Enterprise Architect with significant experience.
• Strong background in AI-enabled architectures and adoption patterns.
• Solid cloud architecture experience and integration of cloud services into enterprise platforms.
• Credibility communicating architectural decisions to technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Operate as Lead Enterprise Architect for AI-enabled initiatives across the organisation.
• Establish and evolve an AI architecture capability aligned to the central AI hub.
• Define and maintain coherent architectures across strategy, delivery, operations and assurance.
• Translate architectural intent and technical roadmaps into usable, supportable products and services.
• Provide architectural leadership and challenge to teams adopting AI.
• Shape approaches to agentic and AI-enabled systems, balancing opportunity with compliance and risk.
• Lead architectural decision-making in ambiguous or complex situations, clearly articulating trade-offs.
• Provide architectural input to cloud adoption and integration, particularly across AWS-based platforms.
• Build alignment and shared understanding across diverse stakeholder groups.

Skills

Lead enterprise architect

AI architecture

Cloud architecture

Stakeholder communication

Regulated environments

Job description

Guidant Global is seeking a senior-level Enterprise Architect to lead AI-enabled architectural initiatives across the organisation. You will define and evolve an enterprise-wide AI architecture capability, ensuring coherence across strategy, delivery, operations, and assurance.

The role requires balancing innovation with risk, and communicating complex decisions to diverse audiences. The successful candidate will guide cloud integration and adoption, particularly within AWS ecosystems, shaping