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EXL harnesses the power of data, AI, and deep industry knowledge to transform businesses, including the world’s leading corporations in industries including insurance, healthcare, banking and financial services, media and retail, among others. EXL was founded in 1999 with the core values of innovation, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.\nWe are headquartered in New York and have more than 60,000 employees spanning six continents. For more information, visit www.exlservice.com.\nRole Title: AI Consulting -Sr. AI Architect & Client Partner, Vice President\nBU/Segment: Digital / AI\nLocation: London, United Kingdom (Flexible hybrid working)\nEmployment Type: Permanent\nSummary of the role:\n\nEnterprises are past GenAI experimentation. They now demand production systems with measurable ROI, governance, and scale, and most stall in the gap between an impressive pilot and a system that survives production. EXL lives in that gap. We are accountable for outcomes on our clients’ data, in their environment, against their SLAs. This role is the senior technical authority who makes that real. You convert ambitious, under-specified client mandates into secure, production-grade Generative and Agentic AI systems, and you turn each engagement into reusable IP that compounds EXL’s delivery leverage and pipeline.\nThe senior technical relationship with client executives, and the technical shaping of the deals that fund the work.\n\nEnd-to-end technical vision and delivery for enterprise GenAI and Agentic AI programs across a portfolio of clients focused on delivering value / outcomes to the clients.\n\nThe technical standard for the practice: reference architectures, reusable accelerators, and the governance and evaluation bar every engagement is held to.\n\nAs part of your duties, you will be responsible for:\nCommercial & client growth\nPartner with sales and practice leaders to shape pursuits, solution complex deals, and influence SOWs, estimates, and delivery approach.\n\nServe as the senior technical voice in client pursuits and executive conversations, converting technical credibility into won and expanded engagements.\n\nBuild reusable accelerators, reference architectures, and IP that lower delivery cost and differentiate EXL in the market.\n\nIdentify expansion opportunities within accounts and translate delivered outcomes into follow-on pipeline.\n\nLeadership & stakeholder management\nLead and grow global, multi-disciplinary AI teams, and raise the technical bar across the practice.\n\nPartner with business and technology leaders to define AI roadmaps and implementation strategy.\n\nMentor architects and engineers, and build a bench of senior technical talent.\n\nTranslate complex architectures for executive and non-technical audiences.\n\nArchitecture & solution leadership\nOwn architecture, design, and implementation of enterprise-grade GenAI and Agentic AI solutions from concept to production.\n\nDefine scalable reference architectures and design patterns for AI platforms, copilots, and intelligent agents.\n\nEstablish architectural standards, reusable components, and best practices across delivery programs.\n\nDesign secure, resilient, highly available AI systems at enterprise scale, across structured and unstructured data.\n\nGenerative & Agentic AI delivery\nDesign and deliver LLM-powered applications: conversational AI, enterprise copilots, knowledge management, and workflow automation.\n\nArchitect advanced retrieval using RAG, Agentic RAG, Graph RAG, knowledge-graph, and hybrid approaches.\n\nDesign multi-agent systems with modern orchestration and reasoning architectures, including human-in-the-loop and autonomous frameworks.\n\nDefine memory, context, planning, tool-use, and reasoning strategies for agentic systems.\n\nHands-on engineering\nStay technical. Contribute to architecture, critical-path code, design reviews, and the hardest technical problems.\n\nDesign APIs, microservices, and cloud-native AI services that underpin enterprise AI ecosystems.\n\nGuide teams on software architecture, performance, scalability, security, and maintainability.\n\nAI governance & LLMOps\nArchitect governance frameworks for auditability, observability, explainability, and compliance.\n\nDesign guardrails for hallucination, prompt injection, toxicity, and model safety.\n\nEstablish LLMOps: evaluation pipelines, automated testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and production governance.\n\nDefine evaluation frameworks spanning quality, safety, reliability, latency, and business outcomes.\n\nQualifications and experience we consider to be essential for the role:\n10-15 years across software engineering, AI/ML, data science, or enterprise architecture, with a clear trajectory into senior technical leadership.\n\nProven track record architecting and deploying production-scale AI, from strategy through implementation.\n\nExperience in a consulting, services, or client-facing delivery environment, including supporting pre-sales or solution shaping.\n\nExperience leading globally distributed, multi-disciplinary teams.\n\nBachelor’s in Computer Science, AI, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field. Master’s preferred.\n\nSkills and Personal attributes we would like to have:\nCore Knowledge Expected\nProgramming & engineering: expert Python; REST APIs and microservices; FastAPI; distributed systems; cloud-native architecture.\n\nLLM application delivery: prompt engineering, tool and function calling, RAG, and at least one production Agentic AI system.\n\nCloud AI platform: deep experience with one of Azure, OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Claude; Kubernetes and cloud-native deployment.\n\nLLMOps & evaluation: CI/CD for AI, automated evals, experiment tracking, observability, model lifecycle management.\n\nResponsible AI: governance frameworks, guardrails, model safety, compliance, and auditability.\n\nPreferred but not required\nOrchestration frameworks: LangChain / LangGraph, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, AutoGen, DSPy, Semantic Kernel, Strands.\n\nAdvanced retrieval: Graph RAG, knowledge graphs, context graphs, hybrid search, vector databases.\n\nAgentic patterns: multi-agent architectures, planning and reasoning, MCP (Model Context Protocol).\n\nModel customization: fine-tuning, distillation, and model evaluation at scale.\n\nFrontier model families: OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Llama, Mistral.\n\nWhat success looks like in this role.\nIn the first 12 months\nMultiple enterprise GenAI and Agentic solutions delivered into production to deliver value / outcomes.\n\nReference architectures and reusable accelerators adopted across programs, measurably reducing delivery time or cost.\n\nAI governance, evaluation, and observability standards operational on live engagements.\n\nOngoing\nRecognised as the primary technical authority for complex client AI initiatives and executive relationships.\n\nTechnical leadership converts into won and expanded engagements and a growing qualified pipeline.\n\nA stronger, higher-performing AI engineering team, with you still close to the technology.\n\nAs part of a leading global Data and AI company, you can look forward to:\n\nA competitive salary with a generous bonus, private healthcare, critical illness life assurance at 4 x your annual salary, income protection insurance, and a rewarding pension.\n\nEXL provides everyday financial well-being solutions, such as cash back cards, in which you can earn cashback while enjoying discounts, promotions, and offers from top retailers. We also offer a Cycle Scheme where you can save money on bikes and cycling accessories.\n\nAt EXL, we are committed to providing our employees with the tools and resources they need to succeed and excel in their careers. We offer a wide range of professional and personal development opportunities. We also support a range of learning initiatives that allow our employees to build on their existing skills and knowledge. From online courses to seminars and workshops, our employees have the opportunity to enhance their skills and stay up to date with the latest trends and technologies.\n\nAs an Equal Opportunity Employer, EXL is committed to diversity. 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