Senior AI Architect (Google Cloud)

The role

You will own the end-to-end design and delivery of scalable data and AI platforms. You will work with engineering teams to scale client proofs-of-concept into robust enterprise systems.

What you will do

• Design and build data platforms, full-stack application architectures, and agentic AI platforms.
• Own the end-to-end technical design of complex projects.
• Conduct technical scoping during client intake and support account growth.
• Act as the primary technical interface for client-side CTOs, Heads of Engineering, and Transformation Leaders.
• Define and implement strategies across networking, data acquisition, security, guardrails, and AI/data workload orchestration.
• Partner with internal delivery leads, AI/data engineers, and commercial teams.

Required qualifications

• Proven experience designing, solutioning, and deploying agentic platforms and AI systems into production.
• Deep understanding of AI evaluation methodologies and guardrail implementations.
• Hands-on experience with agentic frameworks (Google ADK, LangGraph).
• Hands-on experience with LLMs (Gemini, Claude, open-source).
• Hands-on experience with cloud and database architecture (Cloud SQL, Firestore, BigQuery, Postgres).
• Hands-on experience with AI security and observability (OpenTelemetry, guardrails, LLM gateways).
• Mastery of data preparation strategies for AI workloads, data acquisition, and orchestration frameworks.
• Strong background in either Data Platform Infrastructure or Full-Stack Application Architecture.
• Advanced proficiency in cloud security, networking, and production deployment environments.
• Prior hands-on experience building and deploying platforms.
• Strong presentation capabilities with a demonstrated history of advising senior client stakeholders.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, manage competing priorities under tight timelines, and take absolute ownership of project outcomes.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience within Google Cloud (GCP) environments.
• Background working within high-growth startups, scale-ups, or modern enterprise transformation environments.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Private health insurance (Vitality Health) and Smart Health Services
• 50% gym membership discounts (Nuffield Health, Virgin Active, Pure Gym)
• WFH allowance
• Access to platforms like Udemy
• Pension (Auto-enrollment after probation period. 3% employer contributions raising 1% per year of service to a max of 10%)
• Life Insurance (3 x your base salary!)
• Income Protection (up to 75% of base salary, up to 2 years)
• Tusker Green Car Scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Tech Scheme

About the company

Datatonic is Google Cloud's premier partner in AI, driving transformation for world-class businesses through expertise in machine learning, data engineering, and analytics on Google Cloud.