Senior AI Architect & Tech Lead — Contract (London)

Stanton House; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Stanton House is seeking senior Software Architects/Tech Leads in London to shape AI-powered products and platforms. The role blends hands-on coding with setting technical direction across multiple teams and cloud-native solutions.

You will drive adoption of modern AI technologies, mentor engineers, and collaborates with product, design, and senior stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure systems.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering and architecture experience.
• Proven delivery of enterprise-scale software products and cloud platforms.
• Hands-on with AI technologies including LLMs, RAG, vector databases, and multi-agent systems.
• Strong cloud experience across AWS and/or Azure.
• Excellent stakeholder management in Agile environments.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture, engineering standards, and technical direction across multiple products and platforms.
• Leading the design and development of scalable cloud-native applications and AI-driven solutions.
• Remaining hands-on with software development, code reviews, technical problem solving, and prototyping.
• Driving adoption of modern AI technologies including LLMs, RAG architectures, vector databases, and agent-based systems.
• Partnering closely with Product Managers, Designers, Engineering teams, and senior stakeholders.
• Conducting technology evaluations, build-vs-buy assessments, and architectural reviews.
• Mentoring engineering teams and promoting engineering best practices across security, scalability, performance, and maintainability.
• Supporting strategic technical decision-making and helping shape the future technology roadmap.

Skills

Python

Microservices

Node.js

React

Kafka

Databricks

Snowflake

NoSQL

AWS/Azure

LLMs

RAG

Vector Databases

Multi-Agent Systems

Tools

Python

Databricks

Snowflake

Job description

Stanton House is seeking senior Software Architects/Tech Leads in London to shape AI-powered products and platforms. The role blends hands-on coding with setting technical direction across multiple teams and cloud-native solutions.

You will drive adoption of modern AI technologies, mentor engineers, and collaborates with product, design, and senior stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure systems.