Summary: We are looking for a highly experienced Senior AI Architect & Engineer to join our AI Enablement team in Guildford, UK. This role involves designing, building, and deploying innovative AI-powered solutions that enhance content creation, analytics, and operational efficiency across a global organization. The successful candidate will work closely with various teams to identify opportunities and scale successful initiatives into production while influencing AI strategy. The ideal candidate will have over 8 years of experience in designing and deploying enterprise-scale software solutions, with at least 3 years focused on delivering AI solutions. Strong Python development skills and a proven track record with AI technologies such as multi-agent systems and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) are essential for this position.
About the Role
We are seeking a highly experienced and hands-on Senior AI Architect & Engineer to help shape the future of AI across EA Experiences. This is an exciting opportunity to design, build, and deploy innovative AI-powered solutions that transform content creation, analytics, business processes, and operational efficiency across a global organisation.
As a key member of the AI Enablement team, you will architect and deliver AI-native solutions leveraging cutting-edge technologies including AI agents, multi-agent systems, large language models (LLMs), vision and diffusion models, knowledge graphs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and intelligent automation platforms. You will work closely with creative, product, marketing, engineering, data, and operational teams to identify high-value opportunities, rapidly prototype solutions, and scale successful initiatives into production. This role offers the chance to influence AI strategy while remaining deeply technical and hands-on. International travel opportunities may be available to collaborate with global teams.
Key Responsibilities
Architect and Deliver AI Solutions
- Design, develop, and deploy end-to-end AI-native applications and multi-agent workflows from concept through to production.
- Create scalable AI architectures that transform content creation, analytics, and core business operations.
- Establish reusable AI patterns, frameworks, and standards to accelerate adoption across the organisation.
Drive AI-Powered Content Innovation
- Build AI tools, assistants, and workflows that enable teams to ideate, generate, localise, and optimise content across text, image, video, and interactive experiences.
- Support creative and marketing teams with solutions that enhance productivity while maintaining brand quality and audience engagement.
Lead Data, Knowledge & RAG Architecture
- Design and implement data lakes, vector databases, knowledge bases, and knowledge graph solutions.
- Develop robust Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures that power intelligent AI assistants and enterprise knowledge systems.
Productionise AI at Scale
- Take ownership of the journey from prototype to production deployment.
- Integrate AI solutions with existing systems, platforms, and workflows.
- Define observability, monitoring, reliability, and performance standards for AI-powered products.
Champion AI Governance & Responsible AI
- Implement guardrails, evaluation frameworks, and governance models addressing privacy, security, intellectual property, safety and bias.
- Establish acceptance criteria, risk thresholds, and incident management processes for AI systems.
Collaborate Across the Business
- Partner with stakeholders across product, engineering, marketing, creative, operations, legal, and data teams to identify opportunities and deliver impactful solutions.
- Translate complex technical concepts into clear business value and actionable outcomes.
Lead Innovation & Continuous Improvement
- Drive rapid experimentation through proof-of-concept, pilot, and production cycles.
- Define success metrics, measure business impact, and continuously optimise models, prompts, workflows, and user experiences.
- Help establish AI-first engineering practices that accelerate product development and delivery.
Promote AI Adoption
- Act as an AI ambassador across the organisation.
- Deliver workshops, demonstrations, and knowledge-sharing sessions.
- Mentor teams on emerging AI technologies, tools, and best practices.
Skills & Experience Required
Essential
- 8+ years' experience designing, architecting, and deploying enterprise-scale software solutions.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience delivering AI solutions that drive measurable business outcomes.
- Strong Python development skills.
- Proven experience with: AI agents and agentic architectures, Multi-agent systems, Prompt and context engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Embeddings and vector databases, LLM integration and orchestration, AI evaluation, benchmarking, and guardrails.
- Experience designing and implementing data pipelines and AI infrastructure.
- Strong understanding of enterprise architecture, microservices, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, observability, and telemetry.
- Experience deploying solutions in cloud environments (AWS preferred; Azure and GCP beneficial).
- Knowledge of responsible AI practices, including governance, privacy, security, and intellectual property considerations.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Proven ability to work effectively with cross-functional and globally distributed teams.
Desirable
- Experience with C#, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
- Hands-on experience with AI-powered software engineering tools such as Cursor, Kiro, or similar platforms.
- Experience tuning language models and diffusion models.
- Knowledge of content generation workflows across text, image, video, and interactive media.
- Experience leading technical initiatives within large-scale organisations.
We're Looking For
You are a creative problem-solver who thrives at the intersection of technology, innovation, and business impact. You combine deep technical expertise with strong collaboration skills and enjoy turning emerging AI capabilities into practical solutions that empower teams and delight customers. You are naturally curious, continuously learning, and excited by the opportunity to help shape the future of AI within a fast-paced, ambitious environment.