Principal AI Platform Architect

ICON Clinical Research; Ireland; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

ICON plc is seeking an experienced AI Architect to define and govern the end-to-end architecture of the organisation's AI platforms, frameworks, and services. You will provide technical leadership across infrastructure, platform, and solution architecture to deliver scalable AI solutions.

You will lead architecture for central AI platform, multi-agent framework, and cloud infrastructure, setting standards and governance while mentoring engineering teams to ensure security, performance, and

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading large-scale software architectures, including cloud-native systems.
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) and modern infra practices.
• Experience 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 designs across teams.
• Strong focus on scalability, performance, security, and reliability.
• Ability to influence across engineering, product, and leadership stakeholders.

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

Skills

Software architecture

Cloud platforms

AI/ML systems

Microservices

APIs

Distributed systems

Event-driven architecture

Architectural governance

Stakeholder collaboration

Job description

ICON plc is seeking an experienced AI Architect to define and govern the end-to-end architecture of the organisation's AI platforms, frameworks, and services. You will provide technical leadership across infrastructure, platform, and solution architecture to deliver scalable AI solutions.

You will lead architecture for central AI platform, multi-agent framework, and cloud infrastructure, setting standards and governance while mentoring engineering teams to ensure security, performance, and