Senior AI Platform Architect & Cloud Strategy Lead

IF Recruitment Ltd; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

IF Recruitment Ltd seeks a Lead Technical Architect to drive the AI buildout, oversee end-to-end technical oversight, and provide architectural governance for AI-enabled workflows.

You will lead the technical design of AI platforms and cloud infrastructure, establish secure landing zones, and guide integration layers across enterprise systems. Strong leadership and stakeholder communication are essential.

Qualifications

• Lead AI Architect on an AI project
• Hands-on design of deterministic AI safety controls like human-in-the-loop gates and security patterns
• Experience with cloud platform architecture (GCP/AWS) and secure Landing Zones
• Ability to communicate complex technical designs to non-technical stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Define architectural roadmaps and principles for the AI buildout, establishing secure Cloud Landing Zones and technology agnostic integration layers
• Create modular, scalable cloud and microservice architectures capable of supporting complex AI workflows, setting technical design standards across the project life cycle
• Provide technical leadership and architectural design
• Make high-impact design decisions to manage architectural risk
• Lead architectural governance for AI systems, steering solutions through Technical Design Authority, DPIA, and cyber security checkpoints
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders regularly to reach alignment
• Translate non-technical descriptions of problems for broad understanding
• Apply strategy using patterns, standards, roadmaps and vision statements

Skills

Lead AI Architect

AI safety controls

GCP/AWS

VPC Service Controls

Identity Federation

PII masking

Cloud Landing Zones

DPIA

TDA governance

Stakeholder comms

Modular microservices

Tools

Google Cloud

Job description

IF Recruitment Ltd seeks a Lead Technical Architect to drive the AI buildout, oversee end-to-end technical oversight, and provide architectural governance for AI-enabled workflows.

You will lead the technical design of AI platforms and cloud infrastructure, establish secure landing zones, and guide integration layers across enterprise systems. Strong leadership and stakeholder communication are essential.