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This position can be worked on a REMOTE-basis predominantly. Please only apply if you’re based in Ireland and can travel to Cork 1-2 times a month.
Barden is working with a global tech company to hire an Enterprise Architect (Agentic AI) who will design and shape AI systems across the entire business. This role focuses on building the architecture for next-generation, intelligent (AI-driven) products and platforms.
ABOUT THE ROLE:
- Define the end-to-end architecture for the organisation’s agentic platform: infrastructure, patterns, and contracts enabling autonomous capabilities.
- Design agent orchestration, multi-agent coordination, graduated autonomy models, and guardrails for regulated environments.
- Establish observability, evaluation, and trust frameworks to ensure safe, auditable, and explainable agent behaviour.
- Architect a unified API and platform layer for agentic consumption, including tool exposure, context management, versioning, and multi-tenancy.
- Define cross-product composability patterns, resource/tool taxonomy, and integration standards for autonomous agents.
- Provide architectural guidance for ML/statistical models powering analytics products.
- Define model lifecycle, integration with agentic workflows, and alignment with platform engineering standards.
- Advise on build vs. buy decisions and ensure scalable, maintainable ML infrastructure.
ABOUT YOU:
- 10+ years of software architecture/engineering experience, with 2+ years in AI/ML production systems**
- Hands-on experience designing agentic or AI-orchestrated systems with multi-step reasoning, tool use, and autonomous workflows.
- Proven track record defining API strategies for complex, multi-product platforms.
- Production experience with LLM-based systems, orchestration frameworks, evaluation, guardrails, and cost optimisation.
**TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Agentic/AI Platforms: Lang Graph, Lang Chain, Crew AI, Semantic Kernel, or equivalent); agent design patterns; tool-use architectures; MCP or similar protocols.
- LLM Infrastructure: Azure AI Foundry / Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, or equivalent; model selection and routing; token economics and cost management at scale.
- API Architecture: RESTful and event-driven API design; versioning strategies; contract testing; developer experience design.
- ML/Data Science Foundations: Sufficient depth to guide ML architecture decisions, regression modelling, time series analysis, model validation, MLOps patterns
- Cloud & Infrastructure: Azure-native architecture (AWS/GCP transferable); containerisation; serverless patterns for AI workloads.
- Languages: Proficiency in Python + one of TypeScript/C#
OTHER DETAILS:
- Our client is based in Cork City, Ireland. For talent outside Cork, occasional travel to the office (2-3 times per month) is preferred.
- Permanent role: talent-led, competitive salary plus benefits.
