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Senior Enterprise AI Architect — Contract | Leading UK Fintech | Outside IR35
The opportunity
A leading UK fintech is three months into one of the most significant AI and architecture transformations in the sector.
This isn't a component role. It's a systems/platform design role. You'll be helping shape how this business becomes a genuinely agentic organisation, maturing a live low-code AI platform into something production-ready, and advising on whether the current architecture is fit for purpose — or what needs to change first.
Ideally we need someone with a Software Engineering background, experience building high volume and / low latency systems and platforms, and can think about AI systems (both infrastructure "enablement" level, but also at the application level.
What you'll actually be doing
- Taking a live AI platform MVP and making it properly production-ready — guardrails, controls, CI/CD, Kubernetes deployment, scaling approach
- Advising on how agents fit into existing business processes and what architectural foundations need to be in place first
- Helping shape a multi-year AI strategy alongside senior leadership
- Challenging existing architectural thinking where needed — the team has strong principal engineers, so you'll need the credibility to push back
- Bridging from traditional software engineering ways of working into agentic AI development
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What you need to have done
- Designed and delivered AI systems end-to-end — not components, full systems — with proof
- Built at scale with high-volume, low-latency constraints, which tells us you understand what good systems design actually looks like
- Helped a business through an AI or technology transformation, not just implemented inside an existing setup
- Built AI platforms that non-technical users depend on in production
- Thought seriously about agentic AI — not just what it is, but what architectural pre-conditions need to exist before it works reliably at scale
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What this role isn't
If your background is primarily cloud/DevOps, ML platform, SageMaker, or vector databases, this probably isn't the right fit. Those skills already exist internally. What's needed here is broader, more strategic, and more grounded in systems thinking.
The detail
- 6-month contract
- Outside IR35
Two-stage interview process — the hiring manager has cleared his diary to move fast
Stack: Python, AWS (Bedrock, Terraform, ECR, Docker), GitHub Actions, Claude/Anthropic, Gemini
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