Lead AI Enterprise Architect: Strategy & Cloud

Impellam; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Guidant Global seeks an experienced Lead Enterprise Architect to drive AI-enabled architectures across the organisation in a fast-evolving AI landscape. You will lead architecture across strategy, delivery, operations and assurance, balancing risk and opportunity.

You will translate architectural intent into usable products, provide leadership to teams adopting AI, and collaborate with senior stakeholders in a regulated environment to ensure compliant, scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Senior/Lead Enterprise Architect across large organisations.
• Ability to balance technical, organisational and commercial considerations.
• Shaping architecture where requirements are incomplete or evolving.
• Strong understanding of AI-enabled architectures and adoption patterns.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI-enabled initiatives architecture 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 into usable, supportable products and services.
• Provide architectural leadership 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.
• Provide input to cloud adoption and AWS-based integrations.
• Build alignment across diverse stakeholder groups.

Skills

Senior EA

AI architecture

Cloud architecture

Stakeholder influence

Regulated environment

Tools

AWS

Job description

Guidant Global seeks an experienced Lead Enterprise Architect to drive AI-enabled architectures across the organisation in a fast-evolving AI landscape. You will lead architecture across strategy, delivery, operations and assurance, balancing risk and opportunity.

You will translate architectural intent into usable products, provide leadership to teams adopting AI, and collaborate with senior stakeholders in a regulated environment to ensure compliant, scalable solutions.