London AI Delivery Architect — Enterprise AI

Tata Consultancy Services Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Health care

Laptop

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services UK&I is seeking an experienced AI Delivery Architect to design enterprise AI solutions, validate implementations and drive execution with engineering teams. This hands-on role focuses on delivering secure, observable, production-ready AI systems while guiding architectural decisions and trade-offs.

The candidate will lead multidisciplinary delivery teams, define roadmaps and ensure alignment with business objectives, governance, and risk controls across cloud-native and

Responsibilities

• Design the end-to-end AI solution across application, model, data, context, integration, security, deployment, evaluation, observability and operations
• Translate business objectives and domain-team inputs into solution boundaries, architecture decisions, technical roadmaps, NFRs and measurable acceptance criteria
• Select appropriate AI patterns, models, platforms and implementation approaches based on quality, safety, latency, cost, data sensitivity, maintainability and operational risk
• Define architecture for AI agents, orchestration, tool invocation, memory, retrieval, model abstraction, governed execution and human escalation
• Define the data and knowledge approach, including ingestion, metadata, lineage, access-aware retrieval, ranking, freshness and evidence traceability
• Define reusable integration patterns for APIs, MCP, microservices, events, enterprise systems and legacy platforms, including authentication, authorization, idempotency and failure handling
• Define standards for model gateways, routing, prompt and configuration versioning, environment promotion, release controls and rollback
• Define the evaluation strategy, test coverage, quality thresholds and release gates across retrieval, prompts, models, agents, tools and end-to-end outcomes
• Define end-to-end observability covering model calls, retrieval, orchestration, tools, data pipelines, latency, usage, cost, errors and audit events
• Define production-readiness requirements for scalability, availability, resilience, DR, security, privacy, responsible AI and ongoing support
• Validate implementation through architecture reviews, critical code and design reviews, technical walkthroughs and production-readiness checks
• Resolve cross-team technical risks and work with engineers to ensure the agreed design is implemented effectively
• Create reusable reference architectures, ADRs, interface contracts, engineering patterns, playbooks and operational guidance
• Coach engineers through paired design and reviews, and progressively transfer architecture and operational knowledge to the wider team

Job description

Tata Consultancy Services UK&I is seeking an experienced AI Delivery Architect to design enterprise AI solutions, validate implementations and drive execution with engineering teams. This hands-on role focuses on delivering secure, observable, production-ready AI systems while guiding architectural decisions and trade-offs.

The candidate will lead multidisciplinary delivery teams, define roadmaps and ensure alignment with business objectives, governance, and risk controls across cloud-native and