Lead Agentic AI Architect

Anticipated Contract End Date/Length: October 19th 2026 - March 31st 2027
Work Set-Up: Hybrid (3 days per week in office)

Our client in the Information Technology and Services industry is looking for a Lead Agentic AI Architect to lead the design architecture and delivery of enterprise-scale Agentic AI and Generative AI solutions. The successful candidate will define AI architecture standards drive innovation and build intelligent autonomous systems that deliver measurable business outcomes across complex and regulated environments. This is a strategic and hands-on leadership role requiring deep expertise in LLMs Agentic AI RAG architectures AI governance cloud platforms and large-scale engineering delivery.

What you will do:

• Define and own the enterprise architecture for Agentic AI platforms AI assistants copilots and autonomous workflows.
• Design and implement multi-agent systems leveraging reasoning planning memory orchestration and tool integration.
• Architect production-grade GenAI solutions including RAG intelligent search knowledge assistants workflow automation and decision-support systems.
• Establish AI engineering standards covering LLMOps MLOps platform governance observability security and responsible AI.
• Lead technology selection across LLMs orchestration frameworks vector databases and cloud AI platforms.
• Drive enterprise adoption of AI while ensuring scalability security compliance and commercial viability.
• Provide technical leadership to architects engineers data scientists and senior business stakeholders.
• Partner with executive leadership to define AI strategy roadmaps investment priorities and innovation opportunities.

Qualifications :

• Bring 15 years of software engineering architecture and platform leadership experience.
• Demonstrate 8 years delivering AI/ML platforms in production environments.
• Proven experience architecting and deploying Agentic AI LLM and Generative AI solutions at scale.
• Strong background in Financial Services Banking Insurance Healthcare or other regulated industries.
• Demonstrated experience leading large engineering teams and complex transformation programmes.
• Show a track record of delivering enterprise AI platforms from strategy through implementation and operationalisation.
• Demonstrate expertise in Multi-Agent Systems Agentic AI Architecture Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) LLM Application Design Prompt Engineering Responsible AI and AI Evaluation Frameworks.
• Experience with LangChain LangGraph Semantic Kernel and AutoGen.
• Hands-on experience with Azure AI Foundry / Azure OpenAI AWS Bedrock and SageMaker Google Vertex AI and hybrid and multi-cloud architectures.
• Strong programming experience with Python Java Scala TypeScript and SQL.
• Experience with Kubernetes Docker Terraform Bicep CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code.
• Proficiency with GitHub Actions GitLab and Jenkins.
• Knowledge of LLMOps and MLOps model governance AI security and guardrails LangSmith Arize and monitoring and evaluation frameworks.
• Masters degree in Computer Science AI Data Science or related discipline preferred.
• AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification preferred.
• Microsoft Azure AI Engineer certification preferred.
• Google Professional ML Engineer certification preferred.
• Executive AI qualifications from leading institutions preferred.
• Combine deep technical expertise with strong business acumen and the ability to architect enterprise-scale Agentic AI platforms influence executive stakeholders and deliver secure scalable production-ready AI solutions within highly regulated environments.

Additional Information :

Candidates must be legally authorized to live and work in the country where the position is based without requiring employer sponsorship.

HelloKindred is committed to fair transparent and inclusive hiring practices. We assess candidates based on skills experience and role-related requirements.

We appreciate your interest in this opportunity. While we review every application carefully only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

HelloKindred is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and do not discriminate on the basis of race colour religion sex gender identity or expression sexual orientation age national origin disability veteran status or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Contract