VP, Enterprise GenAI Architect & Client Partner

EXL Talent Acquisition Team; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Generous bonus

Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Pension

Cycle to work scheme

Job summary

EXL is seeking a Senior AI Architect & Client Partner to lead end-to-end GenAI initiatives for a portfolio of enterprise clients. You will translate ambitious client mandates into secure, production-grade AI systems and reusable IP that increases delivery leverage and revenue.

You will drive architecture standards, governance, and measurable ROI while mentoring multi-disciplinary teams across regions, shaping deals, and guiding pre-sales activities.

Qualifications

• Proven track record architecting and deploying production-scale AI, from strategy through implementation.
• Experience in a consulting, services, or client-facing delivery environment, including supporting pre-sales or solution shaping.
• Experience leading globally distributed, multi-disciplinary teams.
• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, AI, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field. Master’s preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture, design, and implementation of enterprise-grade GenAI and Agentic AI solutions from concept to production.
• Define scalable reference architectures and design patterns for AI platforms, copilots, and intelligent agents.
• Establish architectural standards, reusable components, and best practices across delivery programs.
• Design secure, resilient AI systems at enterprise scale across structured and unstructured data.
• Design and deliver LLM-powered applications: conversational AI, enterprise copilots, knowledge management, and workflow automation.
• Architect advanced retrieval using RAG, Agentic RAG, Graph RAG, knowledge-graph, and hybrid approaches.
• Define memory, context, planning, tool-use, and reasoning strategies for agentic systems.

Skills

Python

REST APIs

FastAPI

Distributed systems

Cloud-native architecture

LLM application delivery

Prompt engineering

Tool and function calling

RAG

Agentic AI

Azure

OpenAI

AWS Bedrock

Kubernetes

LangChain / LangGraph

Graph RAG

Knowledge graphs

Vector databases

Agentic patterns

Model customization

Education

Bachelor’s in Computer Science, AI, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field

Master’s preferred

Tools

Kubernetes

LangChain

LangGraph

LlamaIndex

CrewAI

AutoGen

DSPy

Semantic Kernel

Strands

Job description

EXL is seeking a Senior AI Architect & Client Partner to lead end-to-end GenAI initiatives for a portfolio of enterprise clients. You will translate ambitious client mandates into secure, production-grade AI systems and reusable IP that increases delivery leverage and revenue.

You will drive architecture standards, governance, and measurable ROI while mentoring multi-disciplinary teams across regions, shaping deals, and guiding pre-sales activities.