AI Architect

AI Architect

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Harvey Nash's Public Sector Client is looking for a contract AI Architect for 12 months, hybrid location.

Day Rate – Market Rates

Duration – 12 months

• Define enterprise-wide AI delivery, aligning with strategy, architecture principles, and compliance.
• Evaluate and integrate diverse AI technologies across cloud, on‑premises, hybrid, open source, and vendor solutions.
• Collaborate with enterprise, data, architecture and solution architects to embed AI capabilities.
• Architect, design, and implement scalable AI solutions using Azure AI Services, including Azure AI Document Intelligence, Azure AI Speech, Azure AI Translator, Azure AI Search.
• Lead technical PoCs in multilingual speech transcription and translation, intelligent document parsing, and cognitive search across structured and unstructured documents.

• Experience shaping AI capabilities to align with business objectives, technology strategy, and architecture principles.
• Proven track record designing AI/ML solutions with Azure Cognitive Services.
• Hands‑on experience in Python (data workflows, Azure SDKs), C#/.NET (integration with enterprise systems), React (frontend demo apps).
• Deep understanding of RESTful API design, Azure AI service orchestration, Cognitive Search, OCR, key‑value pair extraction, and document layout analysis.
• Experience building or deploying speech transcription pipelines, document intelligence models, multilingual translation solutions.

• Familiarity with Azure OpenAI Service, Azure Content Safety and governance policies, Azure Dev Ops CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of court or legal systems is advantageous.

BPSS clearance is required.

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