AI Enterprise Architect
evoke plc is looking for a highly motivated AI Enterprise Architect to lead the integration of AI and enterprise technology solutions. This role requires a strategic technical vision and technical expertise in designing scalable architectures, aligning business objectives with advanced technologies to create exciting innovative AI based systems.
The role involves exploring new technologies, defining architectural visions, strategies & designs and implementing POCs. The successful candidate will have previous experience with high-volume systems and designing scalable solutions and a good knowledge of streaming architectures, cost analysis, performance tuning, and quality of service. They will have a broad vision of technological systems, understanding long-term implications, familiarity with micro-frontend patterns and mobile development best practices and be able to provide technical leadership in selecting the right tools, frameworks, and methodologies for AI. They will also be mentoring and guiding development teams during the implementation phase, ensuring adherence to best practices and architectural guidelines whilst acting as a subject matter expert on AI, trends, toolsets, and industry best practices.
- Build and maintain the enterprise architecture vision, aligning it with organisational goals and future technological trends.
- Design scalable and flexible intelligent solutions that leverage AI, machine learning (ML), and other emerging technologies.
- Ensure domain-driven data architecture evolution.
- Research and adopt new architectural technologies and techniques, managing and implementing Proof of Concepts (POCs).
- Collaborate with R&D managers, AI & automation teams, IT teams, and solution architects to plan/design technological solutions, support development processes, and ensure seamless integration of AI solutions with current IT infrastructures.
- Work with third-party service providers throughout the RFP, POC, and implementation stages, maintaining strong vendor communication.
- Assist with optimisation and scalability improvement efforts by identifying and analysing areas for improvement across enterprise systems.
- Provide support during major production incidents or potential problem-solving sessions to ensure system stability and effectiveness.
- Develop a comprehensive technological roadmap that reflects both current and future enterprise needs.
- Guide, consult, and train cross-functional teams while maintaining a systematic and long-term vision for organisational architecture.
- In-depth knowledge of complex development systems and high-volume architectures, focusing on reliability and performance at scale (required).
- Proven experience designing and implementing AI solutions in complex enterprise environments (required).
- Experience in all architecture domains: application, data, cloud (AWS) and technology (required).
- Expertise with AI, Gen Ai and ML frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, AWS Sagemaker, AWS Bedrock, OpenAI) (required).
- Strong experience of AI services and AI lifecycle and model training (required).
- Proficiency in backend and frontend technologies such as .NET Core, Node.js, and React (required).
- Familiarity with microservices, event sourcing, and containerisation (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) (required).
- Experience with CICD pipelines, Git flow, and monitoring/logging tools like ELK (required).
- Advanced experience and understanding of cloud computing technologies in particular as AWS integration (required).
- Ability to decompose monolithic systems into microservices and implement relevant infrastructure such as API gateways and aggregator (required).
- Industry-leading maternity and paternity leave and paid time off if you have caring responsibilities.
- Discounts at a range of high-street retailers.
- Financial compensation, pension, and bonus schemes.
- Tools and services to help support your well-being, including support with mental health and financial education.
- Gym discounts and our cycle to work scheme.
- Hybrid working: up to 80% of the time from home with 20% of office time.
William Hill is one of the UK's best-known bookmakers, founded by its namesake in 1934 taking bets around Birmingham. It has since grown into an international, multi-brand betting and gaming business spanning online and retail. The company is now part of evoke plc (formerly 888 Holdings), one of the world's leading online betting and gaming groups. Headquartered in London, William Hill operates sports betting and gaming products across multiple markets.