Senior AI Platform Architect — Remote

ICON Clinical Research Ltd; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

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Job summary

ICON Clinical Research Ltd seeks a Senior AI Architect to define and govern the end-to-end architecture of its AI platforms, frameworks, and services. You will provide technical leadership across infrastructure, platform, solution, and agent architecture to ensure scalable, secure AI solutions for enterprise delivery.

Ideally you will lead architectural reviews, drive best practices, and mentor engineering teams while collaborating with product and leadership stakeholders in a hybrid/remote

Qualifications

• Proven experience in software architecture leadership of distributed, cloud-native systems.
• Strong experience with Azure (preferred) or AWS/GCP and modern infrastructure practices.
• Experience designing AI/ML or data-driven production systems and APIs.

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 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 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.

Skills

Cloud platforms

Azure

AWS/GCP

Distributed systems

APIs

Security & reliability

Architecture governance

Job description

ICON Clinical Research Ltd seeks a Senior AI Architect to define and govern the end-to-end architecture of its AI platforms, frameworks, and services. You will provide technical leadership across infrastructure, platform, solution, and agent architecture to ensure scalable, secure AI solutions for enterprise delivery.

Ideally you will lead architectural reviews, drive best practices, and mentor engineering teams while collaborating with product and leadership stakeholders in a hybrid/remote