Mandatory skills -AIML, GEN AI, Enterprises Architect, Agentic AI
Purpose of this Role
- The Lead AI Architect (AI) is responsible for defining, adopting, and assuring AI-enabled data architectures that are commercially viable, technically robust, and aligned to enterprise and data strategy.
- As part of the International Health Global Architecture function, this role sets architectural direction and ensures strategic priorities are realized through data and AI delivery.
- This role will drive innovation, productivity and operational improvements, and customer experience transformation by applying modern AI architecture in a secure, scalable, and responsible manner.
- This role collaborates closely with business leaders, product teams, engineering, and third-party partners to ensure data and AI investments deliver measurable value while meeting regulatory, operational, and security requirements.
Main Duties / Responsibilities
Strategy & Architecture Leadership
- Architect and own enterprise-scale Generative AI platforms supporting multiple business use cases, including internal pilots, automation assistants, knowledge discovery, and customer-facing AI experiences.
- Define and maintain reference target-state data and AI architectures for International Markets, aligned to enterprise architecture standards and data strategy.
- Act as a senior architectural authority for AI-enabled data solutions, ensuring consistency, reuse, and long-term sustainability across the landscape.
- Advocate for AI-driven data design, embedding modern AI and analytics patterns into enterprise data platforms and services.
- Maintain an active awareness of emerging trends in data architecture, AI/ML, and enterprise technology, assessing their potential impact and value for advising senior leadership on AI strategy, feasibility and adoption paths.
- Define architectural patterns and standards to support AI model lifecycle management, AI and data pipelines, feature engineering, and associated design artefacts.
- Architect and own enterprise-scale Generative AI platforms supporting multiple business use cases, including internal pilots, automation assistants, knowledge discovery, and customer-facing AI experiences.
- Define and maintain reference architectures and design patterns for LLM-based applications, covering model access, orchestration, retrieval, prompt management, evaluation, and observability.
- Ensure that AI architectures support the needs of data science, analytics, and AI use cases, including scalability, performance, data quality, and governance.
- Work with Solution Architects and engineering teams to translate business and technical requirements into coherent end-to-end data and AI solution designs.
Delivery & Governance
- Participate across the full delivery lifecycle, from early concept shaping and investment cases through to design assurance and governance during build and implementation.
- Provide architecture governance through design reviews, standards definition, and participation in architecture review and approval forums.
- Capture and manage architectural risks, issues, and assumptions, articulating their financial, operational, and delivery impacts.
- Support sponsors in the creation of well-rounded and compelling business cases for data and AI-led change.
Stakeholder & Commercial Leadership
- Proactively engage with stakeholders across Business, IT, and third-party partners to ensure solutions are cost-effective, appropriate, and aligned to business outcomes.
- Take a lead role in the selection and assessment of third-party data and AI solutions, establishing and maintaining effective supplier and partner relationships where required.
- Apply strong commercial awareness, including financial planning, budgeting, and cost-benefit considerations, in architectural decision-making.
Capability Building & Mentoring
- Provide high-level mentoring and guidance to architects, design, and development teams to embed data and AI principles, standards, and best practices.
- Take a lead role in the selection and assessment of third-party data and AI solutions, establishing and maintaining effective supplier and partner relationships where required.
- Contribute to the maturity of data and AI architecture capability through knowledge sharing, standards development, and continuous improvement.
- Apply strong commercial awareness, including financial planning, budgeting, and cost-benefit considerations, in architectural decision-making.
Skills & Experience
- Demonstrated expertise in architecting and leading large-scale AI initiatives, taking solutions from proof of concept through to successful production deployment.
- Deep understanding of architectural considerations and trade-offs in AI and machine learning projects, built through hands-on delivery experience.
- Experience working effectively within globally distributed teams and complex stakeholder environments.
Generative AI & Core Concepts:
- Large Language Models (LLMs), embeddings, prompt engineering - Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Knowledge bases and Multimodal embeddings
- Agentic AI workflows and tool calling - Model Context Protocol (MCP) concepts and context management
- Knowledge on foundational models and inference profiles, regional hosting and restrictions of various models and be able to identify the right model for the right requirements.
- Awareness of AI Gateway / model access layer design and access controls on the gateways.
- Proficiency in designing and implementing AI Gateway/model access layers to facilitate secure and scalable access to AI models.
- Experience in architecting solutions with vector databases and semantic search for efficient retrieval of information from large volumes of unstructured data.
- Skilled in leveraging document intelligence platforms