À propos de ce poste Enterprise AI Architect chez ICON plc
ICON is a global healthcare intelligence and clinical research organisation united by a mission to bring new medicines and treatments to patients faster.
As a values-driven organisation, integrity, collaboration, agility, and inclusion are at the heart of how we work and interact with each other, customers, patients and suppliers.
AI Architect
As a Senior AI Architect at ICON, you will be responsible for defining and governing the end-to-end architecture of the organisation’s AI platforms, frameworks, and services. You will provide technical leadership across infrastructure, platform, solution, and agent architecture to ensure sca
lable, secure, and high-performing AI solutions that support enterprise delivery.
What You Will Do:
In this role you will act as the technical authority across the AI landscape, guiding architecture decisions and enabling engineering teams to deliver robust, future-ready solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define and own the architecture for the central AI platform, multi-agent framework, and supporting services
- Design and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure architectures across all environments (development, staging, and production)
- Establish architectural standards, reference designs, and governance processes across engineering teams
- Lead solution architecture for AI products, translating business requirements into end-to-end technical designs
- Define integration patterns, API standards, and data architectures to support interoperability and scalability
- Design and guide multi-agent and agent-based system architectures, including orchestration and lifecycle management
- Lead architectural design reviews, ensuring alignment with standards, quality, and non-functional requirements
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams, driving architectural best practices and continuous improvement
Your Profile:
- Proven experience in software architecture, including leadership of complex, distributed, and cloud-native systems
- Strong experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred, or AWS/GCP) and modern infrastructure practices
- Experience designing and delivering AI/ML or data-driven systems in production environments
- Knowledge of microservices, APIs, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures
- Experience defining architectural standards and governing design across multiple teams or programmes
- Strong understanding of system scalability, performance, security, and reliability considerations
- Ability to influence and collaborate across engineering, product, and leadership stakeholders
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Employment with ICON is contingent upon having the legal right to work in the country where the role is based.
Rewards & Benefits
ICON offers a competitive and comprehensive total rewards package designed to support your health, wellbeing, and career development.
Benefits may include:
- Competitive base salary and performance related incentives
- Health and wellbeing programmes including medical, dental, and vision coverage where applicable
- Retirement and pension plans
- Life assurance and disability coverage
- Employee assistance programmes and wellbeing resources
- Learning and development opportunities through structured training and career pathways
Benefits may vary depending on role and location.
Visit our careers site to read more about the benefits ICON offers.
Inclusion and Accessibility
ICON is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone feels valued and supported.
If you require reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know or submit a request here.
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