Enterprise AI Architect

ICON; Dublin; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave

Health insurance

Retirement planning

Employee assistance (LifeWorks)

Life assurance

Country-specific benefits

Job summary

ICON plc is seeking an AI Architect to lead the end-to-end architecture of our AI platforms and services. You will provide technical leadership across infrastructure, platform, solution, and agent architecture to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performing AI solutions that support enterprise delivery.

In this senior role you will define architecture, governance, and standards for AI products, guide multi-agent and API designs, mentor engineering teams, and partner with product and leadership

Qualifications

• Proven experience in software architecture leading complex distributed, cloud-native systems.
• Experience designing and delivering AI/ML or data-driven systems in production.
• Strong understanding of scalability, performance, security, and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Define and own architecture for central AI platform, multi-agent framework, and supporting services.
• Design and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure across development, staging, and production environments.
• Establish architectural standards, reference designs, and governance processes across engineering teams.
• Lead solution architecture for AI products, translating business requirements into end-to-end technical designs.
• Define integration patterns, API standards, and data architectures to support interoperability and scalability.
• Design and guide multi-agent and agent-based system architectures, including orchestration and lifecycle management.
• Lead architectural design reviews, ensuring alignment with standards, quality, and non-functional requirements.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams, driving architectural best practices and continuous improvement.

Skills

Cloud platforms

AI/ML experience

Distributed systems

APIs

Microservices

Security considerations

Leadership

Collaboration

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

AI Architect

ICON plc is a world-leading healthcare intelligence and clinical research organization. We’re proud to foster an inclusive environment driving innovation and excellence, and we welcome you to join us on our mission to shape the future of clinical development.

AI Architect

As a Senior AI Architect at ICON, you will be responsible for defining and governing the end-to-end architecture of the organisation’s AI platforms, frameworks, and services. You will provide technical leadership across infrastructure, platform, solution, and agent architecture to ensure sca

lable, secure, and high-performing AI solutions that support enterprise delivery.

What You Will Do

In this role you will act as the technical authority across the AI landscape, guiding architecture decisions and enabling engineering teams to deliver robust, future-ready solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and own the architecture for the central AI platform, multi-agent framework, and supporting services
• Design and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure architectures across all environments (development, staging, and production)
• Establish architectural standards, reference designs, and governance processes across engineering teams
• Lead solution architecture for AI products, translating business requirements into end-to-end technical designs
• Define integration patterns, API standards, and data architectures to support interoperability and scalability
• Design and guide multi-agent and agent-based system architectures, including orchestration and lifecycle management
• Lead architectural design reviews, ensuring alignment with standards, quality, and non-functional requirements
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams, driving architectural best practices and continuous improvement

Your Profile:

• Proven experience in software architecture, including leadership of complex, distributed, and cloud-native systems
• Strong experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred, or AWS/GCP) and modern infrastructure practices
• Experience designing and delivering AI/ML or data-driven systems in production environments
• Knowledge of microservices, APIs, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures
• Experience defining architectural standards and governing design across multiple teams or programmes
• Strong understanding of system scalability, performance, security, and reliability considerations
• Ability to influence and collaborate across engineering, product, and leadership stakeholders

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What ICON can offer you:
Our success depends on the quality of our people. That’s why we’ve made it a priority to build a diverse culture that rewards high performance and nurtures talent.

In addition to your competitive salary, ICON offers a range of additional benefits. Our benefits are designed to be competitive within each country and are focused on well-being and work life balance opportunities for you and your family.

Our benefits examples include:

• Various annual leave entitlements
• A range of health insurance offerings to suit you and your family’s needs.
• Competitive retirement planning offerings to maximize savings and plan with confidence for the years ahead.
• Global Employee Assistance Programme, LifeWorks, offering 24-hour access to a global network of over 80,000 independent specialized professionals who are there to support you and your family’s well-being.
• Life assurance
• Flexible country-specific optional benefits, including childcare vouchers, bike purchase schemes, discounted gym memberships, subsidized travel passes, health assessments, among others.

Visit our careers site to read more about the benefits ICON offers.

At ICON, inclusion & belonging are fundamental to our culture and values. We’re dedicated to providing an inclusive and accessible environment for all candidates. ICON is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please let us know or submit a request here