Senior AI Platform Architect - Remote & Cloud

ICON Clinical Research; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement planning

Life assurance

Global Employee Assistance Programme

Flexible benefits

Job summary

ICON plc is seeking a Senior AI Architect to define and govern end-to-end architecture for its AI platforms and services. You will lead across infrastructure, platform, solution, and agent design to deliver scalable, secure AI solutions for enterprise delivery.

The role requires guiding architecture decisions, mentoring engineering teams, and ensuring governance and high-performance standards across environments.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in software architecture, including leadership of complex, distributed, and cloud-native systems.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred, or AWS/GCP).
• 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.

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

Stakeholder collaboration

Job description

ICON plc is seeking a Senior AI Architect to define and govern end-to-end architecture for its AI platforms and services. You will lead across infrastructure, platform, solution, and agent design to deliver scalable, secure AI solutions for enterprise delivery.

The role requires guiding architecture decisions, mentoring engineering teams, and ensuring governance and high-performance standards across environments.