Remote UK Enterprise AI Architect (5-month Contract)

Digital Waffle; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 156.000 - 223.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Digital Waffle is seeking an experienced Enterprise AI Architect in the UK, with remote work options, to lead the AI architecture workstream of a major transformation. You will take a draft design to a buildable architecture, overseeing an AI gateway, identity, and governance framework across the Ideas › Build › Run lifecycle.

Key focus areas include Entra ID, zero trust, egress controls, and advanced AI gateway patterns.

Qualifikationen

• Experience in enterprise architecture and Zero Trust.
• Expertise with Entra ID and conditional access.
• Knowledge of egress and network controls in production.
• Experience with LLM gateways, model routing and supply-chain controls.

Aufgaben

• Review the draft architecture and deliver a detailed multi-layer design ending in a build spec.
• Lead AI gateway evaluation and selection (LiteLLM, Kong, 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 so AI only sees data users are entitled to.
• Own DLP and guardrail policy, security control spec and the threat model.
• Run use-case governance from idea to production with registers and gates.
• Deliver reference patterns for AI-assisted software delivery and customer service agents.
• Chair the Design Authority and Technical Design Review, and mentor your internal successor.

Kenntnisse

Enterprise architecture

Zero Trust

Entra ID

Conditional access

Egress controls

Network controls

LLM gateways

Model routing

Supply-chain controls

Tools

LiteLLM

Kong

Azure APIM

Jobbeschreibung

Digital Waffle is seeking an experienced Enterprise AI Architect in the UK, with remote work options, to lead the AI architecture workstream of a major transformation. You will take a draft design to a buildable architecture, overseeing an AI gateway, identity, and governance framework across the Ideas › Build › Run lifecycle.

Key focus areas include Entra ID, zero trust, egress controls, and advanced AI gateway patterns.