AI ARCHITECT | INSIDE IR35 CONTRACT | GLOBAL BANKING PROGRAMME | UK-WIDE FLEXIBILITY

Location: Multiple UK locations available | Hybrid (2 days onsite)

Contract: Initial 6 months
Rate: Competitive rates - Negotiable
Industry: Global Banking/Enterprise AI Transformation

We are supporting a large global banking organisation undertaking a major AI transformation programme and are seeking an experienced AI Architect to help shape the future of enterprise AI platforms and intelligent systems.

This is an opportunity to join a high-profile programme delivering next-generation AI capabilities across a complex, enterprise-scale environment. You will play a key role in defining AI strategy, designing scalable architectures and enabling AI-powered solutions across a large international organisation.

Working alongside engineering, product and business teams, you will design secure, scalable and future-ready AI ecosystems that support innovation at scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Design enterprise AI and agentic AI architectures across cloud and hybrid environments
• Define scalable AI reference architectures and integration patterns
• Architect end-to-end AI platforms covering ingestion, model training, deployment and inference
• Lead API-first and event-driven architectural design
• Define MLOps and LLMOps standards and governance practices
• Drive observability, AI monitoring and operational best practices
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align technical solutions with business outcomes
• Ensure architecture aligns with security, risk and compliance requirements

Required Experience

• Strong background designing enterprise AI solutions and architecture frameworks
• Experience building Agentic AI and multi-agent systems
• Strong understanding of LLMs, Generative AI, RAG, embeddings and vector databases
• Experience with orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph, MCP or similar technologies
• Strong knowledge of API-first integration and microservices architecture
• Cloud platform experience (GCP preferred)
• Experience implementing AI governance and observability frameworks

Desirable Experience

• Financial services or regulated industry experience
• Exposure to MLOps/LLMOps practices
• Banking domain knowledge including lending, payments or risk
• Understanding of AI model governance and auditability

This programme offers flexibility across multiple UK locations, hybrid working and the opportunity to work on one of the most exciting AI transformation initiatives within a global financial environment.

Please apply with your latest CV for further information.