Remote AI Platform Architect for Enterprise Systems

ICON; Dublin; Hybrid; 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

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