AI Automation Architect
Not disclosed
Salary
Not disclosed by employer
£54,900
Going rate
Skilled Worker going rate
This role likely qualifies for a Skilled Worker visa
SOC 2133 (85% match) is an eligible occupation, with a going rate of £54,900, and Cognizant is a licensed sponsor. That is our reading of the rules. Whether they issue a Certificate of Sponsorship is still their call.
This could also be SOC 2134 (Programmers and software development professionals, Heavy LLM orchestration and agent framework design could be software development) or SOC 2431 (Management consultants and business analysts, Client-facing advisory and governance role resembles management consulting). We read the code off the advert, so it is our best guess, not the employer's.
About the role
Key Purpose
Own end-to-end solution architecture for AI-enabled automation engagements, moving delivery beyond traditional rule-based RPA into agentic, cloud-native automation. Act as the primary technical authority and client-facing lead across engagements, responsible for solution design, technical governance, and the transition of legacy automation practices toward AI-augmented delivery.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Lead architecture design for solutions spanning AI/agentic workflows, process automation, and cloud integration — translating business process problems into target-state technical designs
- Design LLM orchestration patterns, agent frameworks, and decision logic for automation use cases, as distinct from purely deterministic RPA flows
- Define cloud-native architecture (Azure/AWS/GCP) for automation and AI workloads, including compute, storage, networking, and security considerations
- Set and enforce technical standards, governance, and best practices across engagements and delivery teams
- Own operational strategy for AI systems in production: define monitoring, observability, deployment governance, and model-risk standards that engineering teams implement
- Act as primary technical point of contact with client stakeholders — running architecture reviews, solution walkthroughs, and technical governance boards
- Mentor and provide technical direction to AI/Automation Engineers and Integration Architects on the account
- Evaluate build-vs-buy and tooling decisions across RPA platforms, LLM providers, and agent frameworks
- Assess existing RPA estates and define migration/uplift paths toward AI-enabled automation where relevant
- Own technical risk assessment and escalation for architecture decisions with client and internal leadership
- Support pre-sales/solutioning activity where technical architecture input is required
- Review and sign off engineering designs before build to ensure alignment with architecture standards
Required Skills/Experience
- Strong solution or enterprise architecture background, ideally with prior RPA/BPM experience now extended into AI/agentic systems
- Hands-on understanding of LLM orchestration, agent frameworks (e.g., LangChain, agent SDKs), and prompt/context engineering at an architectural level
- Deep cloud platform experience across Azure/AWS/GCP; architecture-level certification preferred
- Demonstrated experience defining governance/standards for production AI systems, including monitoring, risk controls, and deployment gates
- Strong client-facing and stakeholder management skills; comfortable leading technical governance conversations with senior client stakeholders
- Prior technical leadership of engineering teams, including design review and mentoring
- Experience evaluating and selecting automation/AI tooling and platforms
- Track record of migrating or modernizing legacy automation estates
- Strong communication skills — able to translate technical architecture into business-relevant language for non-technical stakeholders
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Where this offer sits in the market
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What salary is needed for this role to be eligible?
The offer must clear both the general threshold and the SOC 2133 going rate of £54,900. New-entrant and shortage discounts can lower it.