AI Architect
ICON is a global healthcare intelligence and clinical research organisation united by a mission to bring new medicines and treatments to patients faster.
As a values-driven organisation, integrity, collaboration, agility, and inclusion are at the heart of how we work and interact with each other, customers, patients and suppliers.
AI Architect
As a Senior AI Architect at ICON, you will be responsible for defining and governing the end-to-end architecture of the organisation’s AI platforms, frameworks, and services. You will provide technical leadership across infrastructure, platform, solution, and agent architecture to ensure sca
lable, secure, and high-performing AI solutions that support enterprise delivery.
What You Will Do:
In this role you will act as the technical authority across the AI landscape, guiding architecture decisions and enabling engineering teams to deliver robust, future-ready solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define and own the architecture for the central AI platform, multi-agent framework, and supporting services
- Design and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure architectures across all environments (development, staging, and production)
- Establish architectural standards, reference designs, and governance processes across engineering teams
- Lead solution architecture for AI products, translating business requirements into end-to-end technical designs
- Define integration patterns, API standards, and data architectures to support interoperability and scalability
- Design and guide multi-agent and agent-based system architectures, including orchestration and lifecycle management
- Lead architectural design reviews, ensuring alignment with standards, quality, and non-functional requirements
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams, driving architectural best practices and continuous improvement
Your Profile:
- Proven experience in software architecture, including leadership of complex, distributed, and cloud-native systems
- Strong experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred, or AWS/GCP) and modern infrastructure practices
- Experience designing and delivering AI/ML or href="https://careers.iconplc.com/benefits">careers site to read more about the benefits ICON offers.
Inclusion and Accessibility
ICON is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone feels valued and supported.
If you require reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know or submit a request here.
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