AI Architect

Vallum Associates
London, United Kingdom
Today
£530 – £600 pd

Salary

£530 – £600 pd

Posted
1 Sep 2026 (Today)

Role: AI Architect

Location: London, UK

(Exp Range 12+)

Type of work: Contract

Mode of work: Hybrid 2 days Onsite in week

JD:

Essential skills/knowledge/experience:

* Design agentic AI architectures using multi‑agent orchestration patterns (planner‑executor, supervisor‑worker, tool‑using agents).

* Define reference architectures for enterprise agent platforms integrating LLMs with systems of record (core banking, CRM, risk, payments).

* Select and standardize frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, Google ADK, MCP, A2A patterns).

* Hands‑on expertise with agentic frameworks (orchestrators).

* Experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, tool/function calling, memory management.

* Exposure to AI quality metrics: task success rate, groundedness, containment, FCR.

* Experience on Google Cloud Platform (preferred) or equivalent hyperscale.

* Deep understanding of LLMs, generative AI, RAG patterns, vector databases, embeddings, and prompt/guardrail engineering.

Desirable skills/knowledge/experience:

* Build Production Grade Agentic AI applications and necessarily have navigated through security, governance and performance management of the end to end model.

* Hands-on expertise on MLOps / AgentOps, CI/CD, and observability.

* Strong understanding of regulated financial services environments.

* Proven experience implementing AI risk controls, model governance, and auditability.

* Ensure alignment with FCA, PRA, data privacy, model risk management, and LBG internal policies.

* Knowledge of banking processes: retail banking, lending, payments, compliance.

* Strong experience designing end‑to‑end AI/ML architectures, including data ingestion, feature engineering, model training, deployment, and monitoring.

* Hands‑on expertise with cloud AI platforms (GCP).

* Strong knowledge of LLMOps practices, including CI/CD for models, model registries, feature stores, lineage tracking, and observability.

* Experience architecting scalable real‑time, batch, and streaming inference systems with clear performance and reliability requirements.

* Familiarity with secure cloud patterns, IAM, VPC design, and data protection

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