Senior Agentic AI Architect — Enterprise GenAI Leader

HelloKindred; England; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

HelloKindred is partnering with a major enterprise to appoint a Lead Agentic AI Architect who will shape the strategic and technical direction for enterprise-scale AI platforms. You will design and own the architecture for AI assistants, copilots, and autonomous workflows, driving multi-agent systems, RAG, and governance in regulated environments.

We seek a senior leader with 15+ years of software engineering and 8+ years in AI platforms, plus hands-on cloud and multi-cloud experience.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of software engineering, architecture, and platform leadership.
• 8+ years delivering AI/ML platforms in production environments.
• Proven experience architecting Agentic AI, LLM, and Generative AI at scale.
• Strong background in Financial Services, Banking, Insurance, Healthcare, or regulated industries.
• Experience leading large engineering teams and complex transformation programmes.
• Track record delivering enterprise AI platforms from strategy through implementation and operationalisation.
• Expertise in Multi-Agent Systems, Agentic AI Architecture, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), LLM Application Design, Prompt Engineering, Responsible AI, and AI Evaluation Frameworks.
• Hands-on with LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen; cloud platforms and hybrid/multi-cloud architectures.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the enterprise architecture for Agentic AI platforms, AI assistants, copilots, and autonomous workflows.
• Design and implement multi-agent systems leveraging reasoning, planning, memory, orchestration, and tool integration.
• Architect production-grade GenAI solutions including RAG, intelligent search, knowledge assistants, workflow automation, and decision-support systems.
• Establish AI engineering standards covering LLMOps, MLOps, platform governance, observability, security, and Responsible AI.
• Lead technology selection across LLMs, orchestration frameworks, vector databases, and cloud AI platforms.
• Drive enterprise adoption of AI while ensuring scalability, security, compliance, and commercial viability.
• Provide technical leadership to architects, engineers, data scientists, and senior business stakeholders.
• Partner with executive leadership to define AI strategy, roadmaps, investment priorities, and innovation opportunities.

Skills

Enterprise AI architecture

Agentic AI

LLMs

RAG architectures

AI governance

Cloud platforms

Multi-agent systems

Python

Java/Scala/TypeScript

SQL

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform / IaC

CI/CD tooling

GitHub Actions / GitLab / Jenkins

LangChain / LangGraph

Azure/AWS/Google Cloud AI tools

MLOps

Education

Master's degree in CS/AI/Data Science

Tools

Azure OpenAI / Foundry

AWS Bedrock / SageMaker

Google Vertex AI

LangChain / LangSmith

Semantic Kernel / AutoGen

Job description

HelloKindred is partnering with a major enterprise to appoint a Lead Agentic AI Architect who will shape the strategic and technical direction for enterprise-scale AI platforms. You will design and own the architecture for AI assistants, copilots, and autonomous workflows, driving multi-agent systems, RAG, and governance in regulated environments.

We seek a senior leader with 15+ years of software engineering and 8+ years in AI platforms, plus hands-on cloud and multi-cloud experience.