Lead AI Architect, Associate Director - Insurance, AI&Data, Technology & Transformation

CompanyDeloitte

LocationEngland, United Kingdom

Posted At2/13/2026

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Description

Connect to your Industry

Take your career to the next level by joining one of the world's best and most recognised professional services firms.

We are seeking to hire experienced AI Architects in the Insurance practice of Deloitte's AI & Data service offering.

You will have the opportunity to work with a huge variety of interesting, international, and world-leading insurance clients who are navigating an evolving marketplace where Generative AI is taking artificial intelligence to a new level. This technology has the potential to transform the insurance industry by creating higher-order opportunities such as new services, business models, and improved productivity across the insurance value chain.

As a Lead AI Architect, you will solve our clients’ most challenging business problems by applying Generative AI and other ML techniques to design, deliver and operate robust and cutting-edge solutions.

Strategy, Analytics and M&A

How do you make intelligent, future-proof decisions in a world where change is the one constant? That’s exactly what you’ll help our clients to do. You’ll build trusted relationships with business stakeholders – and use the most exciting new technologies available – to create data-driven programmes that transform their organisations. Your advice will help clients position their organisations to succeed in an ever-evolving marketplace.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

Connect to your opportunity

As a Lead AI Architect, your role will be to own the AI architecture strategy, supporting our clients to design, implement and operate scalable architectures that support the effective deployment of AI models. You will play a critical role in designing and delivering innovative architectures that seamlessly integrate AI solutions with existing Insurance systems.

You are an exceptional communicator, able to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders with ease. You have a strong ability to collaborate and work effectively in a team environment, leveraging the strengths of others to achieve common goals. You are outcome focused and have a desire to be pragmatic in your approach to designing and delivering high-quality solutions that meet or exceed client expectations.

Responsibilities include:

Translate the vision of senior client stakeholders into the AI/ML/GenAI architectural strategy and implementation roadmap, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and digital transformation efforts. At the same time, provide recommendations on the suitability of AI/ML initiatives and use cases for scaling across our client organisations.
Design, recommend and implement end-to-end architectures that seamlessly integrate AI/ML solutions with existing insurance systems.
Collaborate with Enterprise, Application, Data & DevOps Architects, Data scientists, MLOps & GenAI Engineers, and Business teams to pilot use cases and discuss architectural design.

Select appropriate technologies from a pool of open-source and commercial offerings, considering deployment models and integration with existing tools.

Be responsible for the successful execution and operational improvement of AI-powered applications using agile methodology.

Work closely with security and risk leaders to foresee and mitigate risks, ensuring ethical AI implementation and compliance with upcoming regulations.

Develop and maintain contact with top decision makers, lead proposal development, and contribute to pricing strategies.

Manage diverse teams within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution.

Develop the capability of junior team members through ‘on the job’ training and formal development programme.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

Essential

Proven experience in architecture-related disciplines.
Experience in data science and understanding of math/statistical concepts relevant to AI/ML.
Experience in implementing cloud-based AI/ML workloads across one or more CSPs or third-party vendor technologies, including Google PaLM and Vertex AI, Azure OpenAI Services and AzureML, AWS Bedrock and Sagemaker, Dataiku, Databricks, Snowflake SnowPark and Snowflake Cortex, Data Robot.

Experience in architecting scalable, performant & cost optimized AI/ML solutions leveraging; serverless technologies, container / Kubernetes based deployments, GPU compute infrastructure.

Working knowledge of Generative AI and hands on experience in deploying and hosting Large Foundational Models.

Experience with LLM architecture (e.g., Transformer, GANs, VAEs), Fine-tuning, Retrieval Augmented Generation techniques and Context embedding, Vector database technologies and Semantic Search techniques & tools.

Experience in writing robust and efficient code in Python.

Experience in using tools relevant to deep learning like PyTorch, TensorFlow, LangChain.

Experience in designing & implementing key MLOps capabilities & frameworks in delivering robust train, test, monitor and improve lifecycles for AI/ML model deployments.

Experience in developing and integrating APIs especially related to serve ML models.

Experience on building solutions that are integrated with the enterprise to deliver end-to-end solutions. Ability to recommend different options and advice what is right for the use case.

Ability to demonstrate senior stakeholder management skills and collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams.

Ability to bring teams together and leading technical programmes to drive success through applying coaching, facilitation, stakeholder management and expectation management capabilities.

Ability to lead ‘go-to-market’ activities such as responding to RFI / RFPs and developing high-quality proposal materials.

Desirable

Advanced degrees in Computer Science or Data Science or equivalent.
Experience in Insurance organisations or related Consulting practices.
Professional certifications in AI/ML technologies and Cloud platforms.

Connect to your business - Technology and Transformation

Distinctive thinking, deep expertise, innovation and collaborative working. That’s what connects us. That’s what makes us Deloitte. If you want to help solve some of the biggest tech and transformational challenges around, join us. Together, we’ll make an impact that matters.

Engineering, AI and Data

We lead transformation at the heart of our clients; re-engineering the core of our clients’ organisations, helping to unleash growth, and creating better futures for their customers, citizens and employees.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

Connect with your colleagues

“What attracted me to Deloitte were the endless opportunities and the collective experience of other like-minded individuals. Deloitte’s clients include many of the world’s largest organisations; I wanted to be part of a team that made a difference that I could be proud of.” -Dan, Technology & Transformation

"I get to work on projects that help clients in a sector I feel truly passionate about.” -Rhiannon, Technology &Transformation

“Everyone always says “it’s the people,” and that’s true. Working for a brand you feel proud of feels pretty good too. And you don’t have any stress about fitting into a particular stereotype, because there are so many different types of people in Deloitte Digital.” -Gillian, Technology & Transformation

Our hybrid working policy

You’ll be based in London and Manchester with hybrid working.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

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