AI Architecture & Hands-on Engineering

This is a hands-on architect-leader role. Candidates must have personally designed, built, and shipped production AI systems, not only overseen them.

Level: Senior Leader – Client-facing and Internal transformation leadership

Location Flexible (aligned to ICD Sectors); travel as required for key pursuits and strategic accounts

The AI Leader in ICD is a senior, hands‑on AI architect, client‑facing technologist and transformation leader accountable for designing, building, and scaling enterprise AI solutions, accelerating AI adoption, realizing measurable business value, and embedding AI into deal strategy and commercial constructs across A1 accounts.

The role partners directly with CIOs, CTOs, COOs, Business Leaders, Sector leaders and ICD team to:

• Embed AI into software engineering, modernization, quality engineering, and SRE
• Architect and build production-grade agentic AI solutions
  , spanning multi-agent orchestration and interoperability, secure integration of enterprise tools and data, and governed, cost-aware access to models
• Shape AI‑led transformation roadmaps and commercial models
• Ensure AI initiatives move beyond experimentation to repeatable, governed value realization

This role bridges strategy, architecture, hands‑on execution, and outcomes
, ensuring AI becomes a trusted, sustainable lever for productivity, quality, speed, and resilience.

Job description:

This is a hands-on architect-leader role. Candidates must have personally designed, built, and shipped production AI systems, not only overseen them.

Level: Senior Leader – Client-facing and Internal transformation leadership

Location Flexible (aligned to ICD Sectors); travel as required for key pursuits and strategic accounts

The AI Leader in ICD is a senior, hands‑on AI architect, client‑facing technologist and transformation leader accountable for designing, building, and scaling enterprise AI solutions, accelerating AI adoption, realizing measurable business value, and embedding AI into deal strategy and commercial constructs across A1 accounts.

The role partners directly with CIOs, CTOs, COOs, Business Leaders, Sector leaders and ICD team to:

• Embed AI into software engineering, modernization, quality engineering, and SRE
• Architect and build production-grade agentic AI solutions
  , spanning multi-agent orchestration and interoperability, secure integration of enterprise tools and data, and governed, cost-aware access to models
• Shape AI‑led transformation roadmaps and commercial models
• Ensure AI initiatives move beyond experimentation to repeatable, governed value realization

This role bridges strategy, architecture, hands‑on execution, and outcomes
, ensuring AI becomes a trusted, sustainable lever for productivity, quality, speed, and resilience.

• Co‑create with clients and Delivery team, AI adoption roadmaps aligned to client business priorities aligned to WEGA archetypes
• Identify and prioritize high‑impact AI use cases (e.g., engineering productivity, accelerated modernization, intelligent quality, AI‑driven SRE).

• Embed AI into end‑to‑end software delivery workflows—from requirements to code generation, quality engineering, Dev Sec Ops  & SRE.
• Introduce agent‑based and AI‑assisted execution models where they deliver clear value.
• Establish delivery standards, reference architectures, and guardrails to ensure quality and security.

• Support organizational change by helping clients shift ways of working, roles, and skills to normalize AI in…