AI Architect

abu dhabi, abu dhabi, United-Arab-Emirates • Posted July 02, 2026

Job Type: Full-time
Location: abu dhabi, abu dhabi
Posted: July 02, 2026
Category: Other-General
Application Deadline: August 11, 2026

Role Description

We are seeking an experienced AI Architect to define how we design secure and scale AI across the organization. You’ll translate business strategy into reference architectures, platform decisions, and guardrails that engineering teams execute against, balancing capability, cost, risk, and time‑to‑value. Where AI Engineers ship features, you’ll shape the platform, model strategy, the data and retrieval foundation, the LLMOps backbone, the security posture, and the governance model. Increasingly, that means architecting agentic systems, multi‑model routing, and responsible AI controls that comply with regulations like the EU AI Act.

Key Responsibilities
  • Define AI strategy and reference architectures for generative AI, agentic systems, RAG, and predictive ML.
  • Set model strategy, build‑vs‑buy, open‑weight vs hosted, multi‑model routing, and a framework for evaluating new models as they ship.
  • Architect the data and retrieval foundation: lakehouse, fea...

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