Remote Enterprise AI Architect for Transformation

Digital Waffle; Greater London; Remote; GBP 104,000 - 136,000; Full time

Job summary

Digital Waffle seeks an experienced Enterprise AI Architect (Contract) to lead the AI architecture workstream of a major transformation programme in the UK. The role involves delivering a buildable, multi-layer design and overseeing AI gateway selection, identity architecture, and governance.

You will champion security, data access controls and rigorous threat modeling while mentoring an internal successor.

Qualifications

• Essential: Enterprise architecture and Zero Trust experience.
• Essential: Deep knowledge of Entra ID and conditional access.
• Essential: Egress and network controls in production.
• Essential: LLM gateways, model routing and supply-chain controls.

Responsibilities

• Review the draft architecture and deliver a detailed multi-layer design, ending in a build specification.
• Lead AI gateway evaluation and selection (LiteLLM, Kong and Azure APIM).
• Design the request pipeline, environments and egress controls, and Entra ID identity.
• Define supply-chain controls and model provider residency and isolation strategy.
• Build a permission-aware grounding approach so AI only sees data users are entitled to.
• Own DLP and guardrail policy, the security control specification and the threat model.
• Run use-case governance from idea to production: register, release gates and approved tools.
• Deliver reference patterns for priority initiatives such as AI-assisted software delivery, ML routing and customer service agents.
• Chair the Design Authority and Technical Design Review, and mentor your internal successor.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Zero Trust

Entra ID

Conditional access

LLM gateway

Model routing

Supply-chain controls

DLP / guardrails

Threat modeling

Design governance

Job description

Digital Waffle seeks an experienced Enterprise AI Architect (Contract) to lead the AI architecture workstream of a major transformation programme in the UK. The role involves delivering a buildable, multi-layer design and overseeing AI gateway selection, identity architecture, and governance.

You will champion security, data access controls and rigorous threat modeling while mentoring an internal successor.