Senior AI Architect for Enterprise Agentic Systems

Kyndryl Inc.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Kyndryl Inc. seeks a Forward Deployed Lead / Principal Engineer (FDE) focused on AI and agentic engineering. You will own the technical direction of major enterprise AI programs, architect agentic systems, and guide production deployments in close collaboration with platform engineering.

You will combine deep expertise in agentic AI, RAG, and software engineering with strong consulting acumen. You’ll establish AI governance and mentor engineers across engagements.

Qualifications

• 8–10+ years in software or solution engineering shipping AI systems.
• Strong Python (FastAPI) with SDLC practices: design, testing, CI/CD, Git.
• Hands-on with agentic AI frameworks and MCP (Model Context Protocol).
• Experience building RAG/LLM pipelines and working with vector databases.
• Experience with relational and graph databases for data modelling behind AI apps.
• Familiarity with modern AI coding copilots (Claude, Codex, Cursor).

Responsibilities

• Design and build agentic AI applications and multi-agent workflows.
• Build RAG pipelines and integrate LLM APIs, vector databases, and MCP tooling.
• Process unstructured data into condensed, structured knowledge, including ontology extraction.
• Write production-grade Python services (FastAPI) with solid engineering practices.
• Collaborate with platform engineering on hosting, scaling and MLOps.
• Define AI governance and responsible-use guardrails (OPA/Rego).
• Instrument AI applications for observability (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus).
• Translate enterprise requirements into AI solution roadmaps for senior stakeholders.
• Capture field learnings and mentor engineers hands-on.
• Provide architectural oversight across multi-disciplinary workstreams.

Skills

Python

FastAPI

Agentic AI

RAG pipelines

Vector databases

Postgres/Neo4j

AI governance

CI/CD

Stakeholder comms

Education

Degree in Computer Science/Data Science/Engineering

Tools

LangGraph

CrewAI

AutoGen

Semantic Kernel

OpenAI Agents SDK

Google Agent Development Kit

Job description

Kyndryl Inc. seeks a Forward Deployed Lead / Principal Engineer (FDE) focused on AI and agentic engineering. You will own the technical direction of major enterprise AI programs, architect agentic systems, and guide production deployments in close collaboration with platform engineering.

You will combine deep expertise in agentic AI, RAG, and software engineering with strong consulting acumen. You’ll establish AI governance and mentor engineers across engagements.