Technical Architect

We are seeking an experienced AI Architect with 10+ years of technology experience to architect an Agentic AI led Project Setup Automation program for a global Life Sciences / CRO client. This is a dual-track architect role: the candidate owns the traditional Azure application architecture — a React and Node workspace with its workflow, rules and action management services — and the AI architecture on top: deterministic defaulting, retrieval-grounded suggestion with citations, and a tool-using agent writing to Oracle Fusion PPM through Oracle Integration Cloud. The ideal candidate will combine deep Azure application and integration architecture with hands-on LLM, RAG and agentic design, and a working functional understanding of Oracle Fusion and OIC. Hands-on and client-facing, accountable for autonomy tiers, accuracy thresholds, the audit evidence record, and clearing client architecture and AI governance reviews under GxP and SOX.Role and responsibilitiesOwn the end-to-end solution architecture — Azure application services, the integration layer and the AI services — bound by one versioned canonical request schema, and architect the application stack: React and TypeScript SPA, Node / NestJS BFF with an OpenAPI contract, PostgreSQL, Redis, containerised on Azure App Service or AKS.Design the workflow and action management services — versioned state machine, gap-typed routing, SLA and tiered approvals, typed idempotent commands, and an immutable evidence record.Architect the AI services layer — deterministic defaulting via frequency tables with tie-break rules and reason codes, hybrid retrieval (dense plus BM25) with re-ranking and citations, and the evaluation rails: golden set, accuracy thresholds, model registry and drift monitoring.Architect the agent runtime and planner with a tool registry over Oracle Integration Cloud REST endpoints: plan, confirm, execute, verify, write evidence.Define tiered autonomy and approval classes per tool — read auto-executes, low-risk on user confirmation, high-risk on named approval — with confidence banding and human-in-the-loop escalation.Apply functional understanding of Oracle Fusion PPM (project creation, templates, key members, DFFs, project-contract link) to field mapping, template selection rules and API coverage assessment.Work with the OIC team on orchestration flow contracts, mapping, fault handling, dead-letter queues and idempotent retries keyed on a workspace-issued correlation key.Own security, identity and observability — Entra ID SSO, OAuth 2.0 on-behalf-of with Fusion duty-role inheritance, secrets in Key Vault, OpenTelemetry tracing, and CI/CD with automated regression.Lead client architecture, security and AI governance reviews (ARB, AI Council, EIG), mentor the delivery POD, and stay hands-on through prototypes, the phase gate and handover.Preferred Skills10+ years in application and solution architecture, including 3+ years architecting AI or GenAI solutions.Proven delivery of both traditional enterprise applications and AI applications on Azure.Pharmaceutical, CRO, Healthcare or Life Sciences experience in GxP and SOX regulated settings.An agentic or RAG solution taken from proof of concept to production against measured accuracy.Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Azure AI Engineer certification preferred.