Senior AI Platform Architect & Engineering Leader

Moody's Corporation; Greater London; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Moody's Corporation seeks a Principal Engineer to lead the strategy, delivery, and evolution of mission-critical AI platforms and intelligent applications within the Digital Content and Innovation organization.

You will define long-term technical strategies, guide multi-year roadmaps, and drive architectural decisions for AI-powered solutions leveraging LLMs, RAG, and orchestration frameworks. You will build and lead multiple engineering teams, with accountability for delivery and impact.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with 5+ years leading engineering teams.
• Experience leading multiple teams and managers with delivery accountability across a portfolio.
• Strong depth in TS, Python, C#, or similar, with architecture/code review capabilities.
• Deep expertise in enterprise AI apps built on large language models, including agents, RAG and orchestration frameworks.
• Hands-on AI/ML app development (RAG, agent frameworks) taking them to production or platforming.
• Experience running AI systems in production at scale with observability and cost planning.
• Production distributed systems on AWS/Azure with reliability and incident response at scale.
• Cloud-native technologies, serverless, event-driven architectures, data/inference pipelines, databases.
• Proven track record owning multi-year technical strategy and roadmaps, guiding AI deployment at scale.
• Deep expertise in AI for strategic transformation and responsible governance.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute long-term technical strategies while owning the multi-year architecture and technology roadmap for AI platforms and applications.
• Lead and grow multiple engineering teams, with accountability for delivery across the portfolio.
• Drive architecture and alignment for AI-powered solutions using LLMs, RAG, and orchestration.
• Establish engineering excellence via architecture/code reviews,Testing, observability, security, and MLOps.
• Own budget planning and cost management for cloud infra, tooling, and vendor relations.
• Partner with product, risk, legal, and compliance to implement responsible AI governance.
• Attract and develop engineering talent through mentoring and coaching.
• Define and report metrics on platform adoption, reliability, and cost efficiency.

Skills

Senior software engineer

Team leadership

TypeScript

Python

C#

Enterprise AI

AI/ML production

Cloud-native

Technical strategy

Responsible AI

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering/AI

Job description

Moody's Corporation seeks a Principal Engineer to lead the strategy, delivery, and evolution of mission-critical AI platforms and intelligent applications within the Digital Content and Innovation organization.

You will define long-term technical strategies, guide multi-year roadmaps, and drive architectural decisions for AI-powered solutions leveraging LLMs, RAG, and orchestration frameworks. You will build and lead multiple engineering teams, with accountability for delivery and impact.