AI ArchitectVerified as a real position

Who we’re looking for

• Proven experience in software architecture, including leadership of complex, distributed, and cloud-native systems
• Strong experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred, or AWS/GCP) and modern infrastructure practices
• Experience designing and delivering AI/ML or data-driven systems in production environments
• Knowledge of microservices, APIs, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures
• Experience defining architectural standards and governing design across multiple teams or programmes
• Strong understanding of system scalability, performance, security, and reliability considerations
• Ability to influence and collaborate across engineering, product, and leadership stakeholders

What you’ll do

• Define and own the architecture for the central AI platform, multi-agent framework, and supporting services
• Design and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure architectures across all environments (development, staging, and production)
• Establish architectural standards, reference designs, and governance processes across engineering teams
• Lead solution architecture for AI products, translating business requirements into end-to-end technical designs
• Define integration patterns, API standards, and data architectures to support interoperability and scalability
• Design and guide multi-agent and agent-based system architectures, including orchestration and lifecycle management
• Lead architectural design reviews, ensuring alignment with standards, quality, and non-functional requirements
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams, driving architectural best practices and continuous improvement

About the position

AI Architect ICON is a global healthcare intelligence and clinical research organisation united by a mission to bring new medicines and treatments to patients faster. As a values-driven organisation, integrity, collaboration, agility, and inclusion are at the heart of how we work and interact with each other, customers, patients and suppliers.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary and performance related incentives
• Health and wellbeing programmes including medical, dental, and vision coverage where applicable
• Retirement and pension plans
• Life assurance and disability coverage
• Employee assistance programmes and wellbeing resources
• Learning and development opportunities through structured training and career pathways