AI Solution Architect

Intelance is a specialist architecture and AI consultancy working with clients in regulated high-trust environments (healthcare pharma life sciences financial services). We are building a small senior team to deliver an AI-assisted clinical tool for a UK-based organisation in human genetic testing. This is a contract / freelance role where you will act as the lead AI Solution Architect on a real production system .TasksOwn the end-to-end solution architecture for an AI-assisted tool that reads clinical-style reports (PDF/Word) applies scoring rules and returns explainable outputs into an existing assessment platform.Translate business goals marking rubrics and regulatory constraints into a concrete technical blueprint (data flows components interfaces security boundaries).Design a hybrid scoring approach that combines deterministic rules with LLM-powered NLP including confidence scoring thresholds and human-in-the-loop workflows.Define the data ingestion pipeline together with a Data Engineer (OCR parsing normalisation metadata lineage logging).Shape the integration pattern with the clients existing QA/assessment system (API CSV import/export SFTP drop-zone) ensuring robustness and traceability.Work closely with the ML Engineer to choose modelling approaches evaluation metrics and explainability patterns that are realistic for a regulated environment.Collaborate with a Compliance/Validation lead to ensure the design supports GDPR UK data protection and GxP/UKAS-style validation requirements (audit trails evidence access control).Produce clear design artefacts: architecture diagrams interface specs data schemas non-functional requirements and decision logs.Support the Delivery Lead/PM with estimates risk identification and delivery planning across discovery pilot and integration phases.Join client workshops (remote UK hours) to present options explain trade-offs and help non-technical stakeholders understand how the solution will work in practice.RequirementsMust-have6 years in Solution Architecture / Data Architecture / AI Architecture with at least one end-to-end delivery of a data-intensive or ML-enabled system.Strong hands-on background with cloud (ideally Azure) APIs and modern data / AI stacks (e.g. Python containers message queues object storage).Practical experience designing solutions involving NLP or document processing (e.g. PDF/Word ingestion OCR text extraction classification or scoring).Good working knowledge of LLMs / generative AI and how to combine them with rules prompts and evaluation frameworks in production.Ability to design for security privacy and auditability: data minimisation encryption logging RBAC basic DPIA thinking.Comfortable working in or around regulated domains (healthcare life sciences pharma financial services or similar).Strong communication skills able to talk to both engineers and senior non-technical stakeholders and to document decisions clearly.Available for 2-3 days per week on a contract/freelance basis working largely remotely in UK or close European time zones.Nice-to-haveExperience with Azure AI / OpenAI Azure Functions Event-driven architectures or any major cloud document-AI/OCR service.Previous work with UK NHS UKAS ISO 15189 GxP or other lab/clinical quality frameworks.Experience integrating with legacy or closed systems via CSV SFTP or intermediate staging services.Prior consulting or client-facing experience in small senior teams.BenefitsHigh-impact project: build a production AI tool used by laboratories globally to support external quality assessment in human genetics.Senior lean team: work directly with the leadership team and other experienced consultants no bureaucracy fast decisions.Remote-first flexible: work from anywhere compatible with UK business hours; engagement planned at 23 days/week initially.Contract / freelance: competitive day rate potential extension into a multi-year roadmap across additional schemes and products.Opportunity to shape reusable AI building blocks (architecture patterns components) that will be used across future Intelance engagements.We review every application personally. If theres a fit well invite you to a short intro call to walk through the project context and next steps. Key Skills Business Process,VMware,Cloud,HTML5,Windows,Project managements,AWS,Infrastructure,Web Services,JQuery,Java,Computer Engineering,Solutions design,Technical Solutions,Analytics Employment Type : Freelance Experience: years Vacancy: 1 Daily Salary Salary: 550 - 800