Senior Enterprise AI Tech Lead - Platform & Architecture

VML Enterprise Solutions; Faro, Lisboa, Porto; On-site; EUR 73,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

VML Enterprise Solutions is seeking an AI Enterprise Technical Lead to join a high-profile enterprise AI project for a major global brand. The role combines ownership of AI delivery, client-facing discovery, and architectural influence with hands-on engineering.

You will shape and deliver a secure, enterprise-grade AI platform built around Microsoft Azure, LLMs, agentic workflows, enterprise knowledge and integrations, balancing LLM capabilities with deterministic logic.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience designing and delivering AI/GenAI solutions in enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of LLMs, agentic architectures, RAG and workflow orchestration.
• Hands-on experience building AI solutions and integrating them with application services and APIs.
• Good practical knowledge of Microsoft Azure and Azure AI services.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, API design and enterprise integration patterns.
• Experience combining LLM-based capabilities with deterministic application logic.
• Practical understanding of context engineering, retrieval, structured model outputs and AI evaluation.
• Understanding of security, identity and access, governance and human oversight in enterprise AI solutions.
• Proven experience leading technical discovery and solution design.
• Experience providing technical leadership while remaining hands-on when needed.
• Strong client-facing communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical decisions and trade-offs.
• Fluency in English.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery and solution design, translating business workflows into scalable AI solutions.
• Shape architecture across AI agents, orchestration, RAG/retrieval, Azure services and enterprise integrations.
• Define clear boundaries between AI/LLM capabilities and deterministic application logic.
• Design agent workflows, context management, tool usage and appropriate human-in-the-loop controls.
• Shape RAG and enterprise knowledge solutions, including retrieval and use of trusted sources.
• Design integrations between AI workflows, APIs and existing enterprise platforms.
• Ensure appropriate approaches to security, identity and access, governance, observability and auditability.
• Turn discovery outcomes into architecture, technical scope and an actionable implementation backlog.
• Lead engineers throughout delivery, providing hands-on guidance, code reviews and support with complex technical decisions.
• Establish effective approaches to AI evaluation, testing and continuous improvement.

Skills

AI/GenAI solutions

Enterprise architecture

Azure AI services

Client-facing communication

Hands-on engineering

Security and governance

Technical leadership

Discovery & solution design

Hands-on when needed

English fluency

Tools

Azure AI

APIs

Job description

VML Enterprise Solutions is seeking an AI Enterprise Technical Lead to join a high-profile enterprise AI project for a major global brand. The role combines ownership of AI delivery, client-facing discovery, and architectural influence with hands-on engineering.

You will shape and deliver a secure, enterprise-grade AI platform built around Microsoft Azure, LLMs, agentic workflows, enterprise knowledge and integrations, balancing LLM capabilities with deterministic logic.