AI Architecture Lead

1 month ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom HCLTech Full time
Job Title: AI Architecture Lead

HCLTech is a global technology company that helps enterprises reimagine their businesses for the digital age. Our technology products and services are built on four decades of innovation, with a world-renowned management philosophy, a strong culture of invention and risk-taking, and a relentless focus on customer relationships. HCLTech also takes pride in its many diversity, social responsibility, sustainability, and education initiatives. Through its worldwide network of R&D facilities and co-innovation labs, global delivery capabilities, and over 197,000+ 'Ideapreneurs' across 52 countries, HCLTech delivers holistic services across industry verticals to leading enterprises, including 250 of the Fortune 500 and 650 of the Global 2000.

HCLTech AI & Cloud Native Labs is the global Centre of Excellence guiding the application of advanced technologies and leading the way for clients and HCLTech employees worldwide. As the AI Architecture Lead, you will be the ultimate Trusted Advisor, capable of engaging business and technology leaders within the world's largest enterprises, and guiding their strategic AI-enabled journey.

The AI Architecture Lead is responsible for leading the Labs' Architectural services within the region. You will need to provide hands-on technical leadership, whilst managing a small team of senior AI architects and consultants. You will have business responsibility for the provision of innovation-led Labs services, focusing on the design and implementation of advanced AI solutions enabling genuine transformational outcomes.

This hands-on leadership role demands deep understanding of AI and related technologies, running in Edge, on-prem and Public Cloud environments. Acting at the forefront of our industry you will be fully conversant with Generative AI, and its impact at both the individual employee and strategic organisational level.

The ideal candidate will be an established thought-leader in the AI domain, with solid architectural and engineering credentials that you maintain at the highest level. Working ahead of industry trends, deeply passionate about AI-enabled business transformation and demonstrating a strong innovation-led posture.

Key Responsibilities

  1. Technical & Engineering Leadership

Act as ultimate Design Authority for sophisticated AI solutions and related technology architecture. Lead high-level architectural discussions with clients, providing expert guidance on best practices for AI implementations across AI PC, Edge, Data Centre and Public Cloud environments. Contribute to HCLTech thought leadership in the AI & Cloud domains with a deep understanding of open-source technologies.

Service Delivery & Innovation

Design innovative AI solutions from ideation to MVP, rapidly enabling genuine business value. Optimize AI and cloud architectures to meet client requirements, balancing efficiency, accuracy and effectiveness. Assess and review existing complex solutions and recommend architectural improvements to transform applications with latest AI technologies. Drive the adoption of cutting-edge GenAI technologies spearheading initiatives that push the boundaries of AI capability across the full spectrum of environments.

Thought Leadership and Client Engagement

Provide expert architectural and strategy guidance to clients on incorporating Generative AI into their business and technology landscape. Conduct workshops, briefings, and strategic dialogues to educate clients on AI benefits and applications, establishing strong, trust-based relationships. Act as a trusted advisor, contributing to technical projects with a strong focus on technical excellence and on-time delivery. Author whitepapers, blogs, and speak at industry events, maintaining a visible presence as a thought leader in AI and associated technologies.

Collaboration and Customer Engagement

Engage with multiple customers simultaneously, building high-impact consultative relationships. Work closely with internal teams and global partners to ensure seamless collaboration and knowledge sharing across projects.

Management and Leadership

Demonstrable track record building and managing small Architectural or Engineering teams. Support career growth and professional development of the team, supported by a culture of collaboration, respect, diversity, inclusion and deep trustful relationships.

Mandatory Skills & Experience

  1. Management & leadership: Demonstrable track record building and leading Architectural or Engineering teams. Proven ability to combine strategic business and commercial skills, performing at the highest-level in senior client relationships.
  2. Experience:

10+ years architecture design, 10+ years software engineering, 5+ years in a senior Team Leader or similar management position.

Technologies:

Professional-level expertise in Public Cloud environments (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud). Demonstrable coding proficiency with Python, Java or Go languages.

AI Expertise:

Advanced machine learning algorithms, GenAI models (e.g., Working familiarity with Copilot solutions, in both software engineering and office productivity domains.

Business Expertise:

Extensive track record performing a lead technical role in a sales, business-development or other commercial environment.

Project Methodologies: Agile and Scrum project management.

Desired Skills & Experience

  1. Knowledge of GenAI operations (LLMOps), experience Governing AI models in production environments.
  2. Proficiency in data engineering for AI, including data preprocessing, feature engineering, and pipeline creation.
  3. Expertise in AI model fine-tuning and evaluation, with a focus on improving performance for specialized tasks.
  4. Knowledgeable about Responsible AI, including governance and ethics. Bias mitigation, with experience in implementing strategies to ensure fair and unbiased AI solutions.
  5. Deep Learning Frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch)
  6. Innovation and Emerging Technology Trends
  7. Strategic AI Vision and Road mapping
  8. Enthusiastic about working in a fast-paced environment using the latest technologies, and passionate about HCL's dynamic and high-energy Lab culture.

Location: Anywhere in UK (Preferred London) or must be willing to travel on need basis.


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