Lead Architect – AI

The Lead Architect – AI guides the design of AI products from early problem discovery through production delivery and continuous improvement. The role turns business goals into secure, scalable and measurable solutions, selecting appropriate approaches across conventional machine learning, generative AI, retrieval-augmented generation and agentic workflows. It combines hands-on technical judgement with architecture leadership, helping product, engineering, data, security and operations teams agree on designs that can be operated responsibly at scale.

Job Details

• Employer: Landmark Digital
• Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
• Employment Type: Full Time
• Experience: Indicatively 8+ years in software/architecture, including 3+ years in AI/ML
• Qualification: Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent practical experience

Key Responsibilities

• Work with product owners to define AI use cases, user journeys, feasibility, expected outcomes and acceptance criteria.
• Lead end-to-end architecture across experience, application, model, data, integration and infrastructure layers.
• Evaluate models, platforms and vendors through prototypes and structured experiments, considering quality, security, cost and latency.
• Guide production implementation, architecture reviews, integrations, deployment readiness and reusable engineering patterns.
• Embed privacy, access controls, secure retrieval, audit trails, human approval and other responsible-AI safeguards.
• Define evaluation, monitoring, failure handling, fallbacks and lifecycle controls, and mentor engineers and other architects.

Requirements and Qualifications

• A strong software, solution or AI architecture track record, with shipped enterprise products.
• Indicatively eight or more years in engineering or architecture, including three or more years on AI/ML solutions.
• Hands-on ability to prototype and review code, preferably in Python, plus API and distributed-system design skills.
• Experience with a major cloud platform, containerised or managed deployment, CI/CD, MLOps/LLMOps and monitoring.

Required Skills

Useful expertise includes LLMs, embeddings, retrieval and reranking, multimodal systems, model evaluation, prompt and model versioning, security and cost optimisation. Clear communication and the ability to influence without direct authority are essential.

Employment Details

Full-time role associated with Landmark Digital in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Salary and benefits should be confirmed during recruitment.