Mission / Role Summary
Lead the design and optimization of production-grade agentic solutions in regional deployments, ensuring that AI agents meet enterprise requirements for scalability, safety, and performance.
Key Responsibilities
- Translate business and operational requirements into agentic system designs.
- Guide teams in moving from consumer-grade to production-grade agent design.
- Review and optimize agent workflows, decision logic, and system interactions.
- Ensure compliance with platform architecture, governance, and security standards.
- Support client-specific or sensitive solution design, including restricted data environments.
- Act as a regional SME and escalation point for complex agent design challenges.
- Collaborate with central platform and governance teams.
Required Skills
- Deep understanding of agentic AI architectures and frameworks.
- Experience designing production-grade distributed systems.
- Strong knowledge of system design, APIs, and workflow orchestration.
- Ability to assess trade-offs, including autonomy versus control and cost versus performance.
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Experience with tools such as LangGraph, n8n, and orchestration frameworks.
- Knowledge of AI observability and evaluation frameworks.
- Experience in sovereign or restricted deployment environments.
- Background in ITSM or managed services automation.
Experience Profile
8–15+ years in architecture roles, including solution, systems, or platform architecture, with proven experience designing complex enterprise platforms or AI-driven systems.
Candidate Persona
A forward-looking architect who balances innovation with control and can challenge naive AI approaches and elevate designs to production-grade standards, especially in regulated or client-specific environments.
Essential Criteria – SC Eligibility
To be eligible for SC clearance, you must have lived and worked in the UK continuously for the past 5 years.
Benefits
- Pension scheme with contributions matched up to 10%.
- Private medical cover.
- Income protection.
- Life assurance.
- 25 days paid leave plus national holidays.
- Flex benefits program.