AI Solution Architect — Enterprise AI & Agentic Solutions

Our client is an established technology business seeking an AI Solution Architect to translate enterprise customer needs into practical, production-ready AI solutions.This is a customer-facing role combining technical advisory, solution design and delivery ownership. You will help customers make sound architectural decisions, align commercial and technical expectations, and guide engineering teams from initial concept to live deployment.The scope can be shaped around the successful candidate, with the opportunity to lead a small engineering team or take on a senior individual contributor remit.What you’ll doWork with customers to identify valuable AI use cases, assess feasibility and define achievable project boundaries.Develop architectures for LLM-powered applications and enterprise agents, accounting for data access, system connectivity, governance, performance and operating costs.Present recommendations clearly to technical and business audiences, challenge impractical requests constructively and secure agreement on the proposed approach.Partner with commercial teams on technical pitches, demonstrations, proposals and customer evaluations.Guide pilots with clear evaluation criteria, then oversee the path to production and customer sign-off.Align product, engineering and customer-facing teams, resolving competing priorities and managing delivery risks.Provide technical direction to a small group of engineers, with formal people-management responsibilities depending on experience.What we’re looking forExperience in solution architecture, customer-facing technical consulting or a comparable role within enterprise software or cloud technology.A strong technical foundation, with the ability to make and explain architectural trade-offs.Practical knowledge of LLM applications, agent architectures and the requirements for deploying AI in enterprise environments.Experience taking solutions beyond demonstrations into integrated, operational systems.Confidence managing customer expectations, negotiating scope and influencing stakeholders without relying on formal authority.Exposure to financial services, payments or other complex enterprise environments would be an advantage.