Senior Azure AI Platform Architect

ClearRoute; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Profit sharing

Private healthcare

Home office budget

Learning budget and Udemy access

Job summary

ClearRoute is seeking an experienced AI Architect to lead the architecture of an Azure-based enterprise AI platform, including model gateway, MCP-based orchestration, and secure data residency patterns. The role focuses on delivering scalable, governed AI capabilities within a collaborative, hybrid-working environment in the UK.

You will steer integration patterns for HR and other systems, drive security posture, and advise senior stakeholders on strategic platform choices, with travel to client

Qualifications

• Hands-on Azure AI platform architecture experience.
• Proven enterprise GenAI and agentic systems in production.
• Experience with APIs, events and identity propagation.
• Strong governance: data residency, auditability and monitoring.
• Able to present architecture decisions to senior stakeholders.
• UK-based; available to start within three weeks.

Responsibilities

• Produce and maintain platform architecture, decisions and roadmaps for enterprise AI platform.
• Define path-to-production standards for agents including environments, gates and release processes.
• Design the agent gateway and integration architecture for HR and other enterprise systems.
• Set security, identity (Entra), data classification and residency controls with client teams.
• Review designs and unblock delivery across multiple streams on the platform.
• Maintain knowledge of Python and agent frameworks (Semantic Kernel, LangGraph, Foundry Agent Service).
• Advise senior client stakeholders on platform choices, including build-vs-buy.
• Hand over architecture patterns to in-house team as it forms.

Skills

Azure architecture

GenAI / agentic systems

API Management

Entra identity

Security & governance

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Azure

Azure AI Foundry

LangGraph

APIM

Job description

ClearRoute is seeking an experienced AI Architect to lead the architecture of an Azure-based enterprise AI platform, including model gateway, MCP-based orchestration, and secure data residency patterns. The role focuses on delivering scalable, governed AI capabilities within a collaborative, hybrid-working environment in the UK.

You will steer integration patterns for HR and other systems, drive security posture, and advise senior stakeholders on strategic platform choices, with travel to client