Job Title: Azure AI Architect
Key Responsibilities
* Designing, implementing, and maintaining secure and stable AI solutions using leading AI technology frameworks
* Aligning AI use cases with business strategies and key performance indicators and other metrics
* Working closely with programmers and using relevant APIs to build new applications to run on AI platforms
* Monitoring current and future trends and advancements in AI, machine learning, and other emerging technologies
* Define the enterprise-wide approach to AI delivery, ensuring alignment with organisational strategy, architecture principles, compliance requirements - driving innovation and informing strategic decisions.
* Evaluate and integrate diverse AI technologies and platforms (cloud, on-premises, hybrid, open-source, and vendor solutions) to meet different business needs.
* Collaborate with enterprise, data, principle and solution architects to ensure AI capabilities are seamlessly embedded within the broader technology ecosystem.
* Architect, design, and implement scalable AI solutions using Azure AI Services, including:
* Lead technical PoCs in areas such as:
* Multilingual speech transcription and translation
* Intelligent document parsing and metadata extraction
* Cognitive search across structured and unstructured documents
Required Skills & Qualifications
* Demonstrable experience of shaping AI capabilities to ensure they are designed, implemented, and integrated in alignment with business objectives, technology strategy, and architecture principles
* Proven track record designing AI/ML solutions with Azure Cognitive Services
* Strong hands-on experience in:
* Python (data workflows, Azure SDKs)
* C#/.NET (integration with enterprise systems)
* React (frontend POC/demo apps)
* Deep understanding of:
* RESTful API design & consumption
* Azure AI service orchestration & pipelines
* Cognitive Search (keyword, semantic & hybrid modes)
* OCR, key-value pair extraction, and document layout analysis
Good to have skills
* Azure OpenAI Service
* Azure Content Safety and governance policies
* Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines