Principal Architect (AI Security)

You could be progressing your career, in a senior, hands-on role, working on cutting edge security / encryption products at a successful and expanding software house that provide cyber security products to a range of finance, government, defence, law enforcement and pharmaceutical companies.

As a Principal Architect, you’ll take ownership of the organisation’s approach to Artificial Intelligence, identifying opportunities to improve how the business builds, secures and operates its platforms. Working across engineering, product, customer facing operations and internal IT, you’ll shape the AI strategy and turn it into practical solutions, designing and building the platforms, services and infrastructure needed to support responsible AI adoption.

This is a senior, hands-on individual contributor role rather than a team management position. You’ll lead through technical expertise and influence, working closely with engineers, technical architects and IT teams to set architectural direction and establish the policies, governance, risk and compliance frameworks needed to use AI securely and effectively. You’ll advise leadership on opportunities and risks, balancing innovation with business needs, confidentiality and operational resilience.

On the engineering side, you’ll design and build infrastructure for long-running agentic workflows, including AI gateways and supporting services. Using technologies such as Docker, Linux, Python, FastAPI, TypeScript, MCP / FastMCP, OpenAI and AWS Bedrock, you’ll develop reusable services and integrations, establishing secure boundaries around credentials, access, tool invocation and human oversight. You’ll also assess emerging technologies before adoption, actively test AI systems and agentic workflows for vulnerabilities and work alongside engineers to investigate complex technical challenges. Your architectural decisions will help strengthen security, maintainability and assurance while shaping the organisation’s long term AI capabilities.

Do you have low level design and development skills combined with experience of integrating AI gateways, agentic workflow systems?, You’ll be primarily working from home but must be flexible to travel to client sites, mainly London and M4 corridor although sometimes further afield., * You have experience in designing, building, securing and operating complex software platforms, Linux based systems, distributed services, APIs and integrations

• You have strong, current hands-on experience with Docker / containerised environments, Python, FastAPI, TypeScript and AI specific tooling such as MCP / FastMCP, OpenAI APIs and AWS Bedrock
• You have practical experience of building or integrating AI gateways, agentic workflow systems or similar AI infrastructure; not just using AI tools but architecting the systems around them
• You have experience with enterprise or platform architecture at c-suite advisory level, ideally spanning regulated, security conscious, or infrastructure heavy environments
• You can design policy based authorisation, credential / access boundaries and secure-by-design controls for systems handling sensitive operations
• You have experience of influencing engineering, product, security, customer-facing and leadership stakeholders without relying on formal team management
• You must be eligible to achieve DV Clearance (i.e. British citizen or resident for a minimum of 10 years)

• Salary to £120k + OTE
• 25 days holiday, rising to 27 in two years, ability to buy 5 days per year
• Private Medical Care, Life Cover, Pension
• Subsidised gym membership
• Hybrid working