Principal AI Architect | Secure, Scalable Platforms

Leonardo UK Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave 25 days

Holiday purchase 5 days

Private medical insurance

Health cashback plan

Pension

Life cover

Season ticket loan

Salary exchange (ride2work)

Gym membership

Employee referral scheme

Job summary

Becrypt seeks a Principal Architect – AI to define and govern AI across the business. This is a hands-on, individual contributor role working with engineering, product, IT and operations to design secure, scalable AI platforms.

You will build and govern AI gateways, agentic workflows and related infrastructure, while shaping policy, risk and compliance to enable safe adoption of AI technologies in regulated environments. This is a senior role requiring deep technical credibility.

Qualifications

• Senior level architect with practical AI platform experience.
• Experience designing secure, scalable AI-powered systems.
• Proven ability to influence across engineering, product and IT.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and governance of AI across Becrypt's platforms.
• Build AI gateways and agentic workflows with secure boundaries.
• Collaborate with engineering to assess risk, security and operability.

Skills

AI architecture

Security by design

Cloud platforms

System integration

Stakeholder influence

Senior IC

Tools

Docker

Python

FastAPI

TypeScript

AWS Bedrock

OpenAI APIs

Job description

Becrypt seeks a Principal Architect – AI to define and govern AI across the business. This is a hands-on, individual contributor role working with engineering, product, IT and operations to design secure, scalable AI platforms.

You will build and govern AI gateways, agentic workflows and related infrastructure, while shaping policy, risk and compliance to enable safe adoption of AI technologies in regulated environments. This is a senior role requiring deep technical credibility.