Principal AI Architect & Tech Lead (Remote)

Morson Group; England; Remote; GBP 144,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first working

Occasional client-site visits

Competitive salary up to £160k

Job summary

Morson Group is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead architecture and technical direction for client projects in a forward-looking AI-native software engineering environment. You will mentor teams, influence outcomes, and navigate stakeholder conversations at CTO and CEO levels.

The role is tech-agnostic, requiring hands-on work with Java, Node, .NET, Python and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP). Remote-first with occasional onsite client visits is supported.

Qualifications

• Experience leading technical direction on client projects.
• Strong architecture and solution design skills.
• Ability to communicate business impact of technical decisions to executives.
• Proven mentorship and team development capabilities.
• Comfort with AI-enabled software engineering and modern tooling.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and technical direction on client projects.
• Raise the capability level of engineers on the team.
• Manage stakeholders up to CTO/CEO level and frame decisions commercially.
• Set up AI context engineering and select appropriate tools.
• Mentor and coach engineers to improve AI fluency.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud & IaC

Data pipelines & embeddings

AI-assisted engineering

Consulting & stakeholder mgmt

Tools

Java

Node

.NET

Python

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Morson Group is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead architecture and technical direction for client projects in a forward-looking AI-native software engineering environment. You will mentor teams, influence outcomes, and navigate stakeholder conversations at CTO and CEO levels.

The role is tech-agnostic, requiring hands-on work with Java, Node, .NET, Python and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP). Remote-first with occasional onsite client visits is supported.