AI Architect

Company Description

Hitachi Solutions Europe is a global Digital, Data and Technology consultancy, Microsoft Gold partner and Cloud Services partner, specialising in end-to‑end transformation.

As a global consultancy firm working across the private and public sectors, we specialise in Dynamics 365 Business Applications, Power Platform, including Azure, Application Modernisation and Data & Analytics.

Our highly skilled team help drive improvements, creating efficiency and growth within organisations. We are committed to Microsoft technologies, with a mission to revolutionise modern businesses. To achieve this we employ the best, most dedicated talent to deliver outstanding technology solutions to both our local and global clients.

We place value on collaboration, open communication, and transparency. We emphasise the importance of team spirit, cohesion, and appreciation
- And through our talented people, innovative culture, and technical and business expertise, we deliver game changing outcomes every day. Our learning culture and flat hierarchy are our recipes for success.

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• Hitachi Solutions offers competitive compensation packages (incl. bonuses), pension and benefits plans.
• Work/Life balance is an essential part of our culture, and all our employees are home workers, although you will be expected to come into our or customer's offices regularly.
• We operate a comprehensive career development programme that includes mentoring and training plans to ensure that you will continue to grow and develop your career at Hitachi.

We are growing our consulting team, and looking for an experienced AI Architect to lead the design and delivery of secure, scalable and responsible AI solutions across enterprise and public‑sector programmes. This role combines hands‑on technical expertise with strong architectural leadership, shaping end‑to‑end AI solutions from early discovery through to production delivery and scale.

You will act as a trusted advisor to clients and internal teams, defining AI architectures, setting standards and guardrails, and ensuring AI is applied where it delivers real business value.

• Design and own end-to-end AI client-specific solution architectures, including Generative AI, Agents and traditional ML.
• Define and maintain enterprise AI architecture patterns, reference architectures, and reusable building blocks within the Microsoft ecosystem.
• Lead AI governance, security and Responsible AI by design, ensuring solutions meet regulatory, ethical and organisational standards.
• Provide architectural oversight across delivery teams, ensuring quality and scalability.
• Support pre‑sales and discovery, shaping solution approaches and technical estimates and delivery roadmaps.
• Advise stakeholders on AI feasibility, trade‑offs, risks and long‑term sustainability.
• Build hands‑on prototypes, reference implementations and reusable accelerators to remain close enough to the code to set credible technical direction and unblock delivery teams.

• Significant overall experience delivering AI and Data solutions in complex enterprise environments, with a minimum of 5 years hands‑on AI delivery experience.
• Proven experience delivering production‑grade AI solutions end-to-end, from discovery through to live operations and ongoing model management.
• Hands‑on expertise across Microsoft cloud and AI ecosystem, including Microsoft Foundry and data platform.
• Strong experience with integrating low‑code Power Platform solutions into…