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Principal AI Platform Architect
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Principal AI Platform Engineer / Architect
Surrey
Hybrid (2 days onsite)
2-stage interview process
Wedo has partnered with one of the world's leading financial services organisations, with a 500+ person technology division building enterprise SaaS products used by millions globally. They've already invested heavily in AI tooling, infrastructure and engineering platforms, and are now building their first AI-native product.
The challenge now isn't the technology. It isn't buying more AI tools. It's changing the way hundreds of engineers build software across the organisation.
That's why they're looking for a Principal AI Platform Engineer / Architect to lead that transformation.
The Role
This isn't a traditional Platform Engineering role. It isn't purely Architecture. It isn't Developer Experience. It isn't AI Enablement. It's a combination of all four.
You'll define how AI becomes embedded throughout the software development lifecycle, designing the platforms, frameworks and engineering experience that enables hundreds of engineers to build better software, faster, whilst maintaining the governance, security and quality expected within a global enterprise.
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You'll spend as much time influencing engineering teams and driving adoption as you will designing technical solutions.
What They're Looking For
They're deliberately not looking for someone who's researched AI or built a handful of GenAI prototypes. They're looking for someone who's been through the journey and understands what it takes to introduce AI into engineering teams at enterprise scale.
You'll probably have experience of:
- Building or evolving Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) or engineering enablement platforms.
- Introducing AI tooling into engineering teams at enterprise scale.
- Designing cloud-native platforms (Azure).
- Building software yourself and maintaining strong technical credibility with senior engineers.
- Creating reusable frameworks, SDKs, tooling or developer workflows.
- Driving engineering transformation across multiple teams rather than owning a single product.
- Influencing senior technical stakeholders through credibility rather than authority.
The Environment
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You'll work across Platform Engineering, Architecture, AI, Security and Engineering Leadership to define how AI is safely adopted across the organisation.
- AI-assisted development.
- Developer tooling.
- Prompt engineering.
- Model evaluation.
- Governance.
- Platform engineering.
- Developer Experience.
- Enterprise software engineering at scale.
If you enjoy solving organisational engineering challenges rather than just technical ones, you'll probably love this role.
This role won't suit someone who wants to spend every day building LLM applications. It will suit someone who gets excited by enabling hundreds of engineers to build better software through great platforms, exceptional developer experience and practical AI adoption.
The impact you create won't be measured by a single product or team. It'll be measured across an entire engineering organisation.
To apply
Connect with Jack Cole on LinkedIn and send me a short message explaining why you think you're the right fit for the role. Alternatively, hit Easy Apply and I'll personally review your CV within 48 hours.
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