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You will be accountable for agentic architecture, grounding and retrieval, integration patterns, model selection and benchmarking, evaluation, large language model operations, model drift and token and cost optimisation.\nThis is a technical design authority role rather than a delivery engineering role: you will decide and assure the architecture while partnering with the product and engineering teams that build, deploy and operate solutions.\nYou will work closely with Enterprise Architecture, security, privacy, engineering and platform teams, and with technology vendors, to turn emerging artificial intelligence capabilities into practical enterprise patterns.\nBecause here, we don’t just hire for jobs. We invite you to be part of something bigger.\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\nDefine and govern reference architectures and engineering patterns for artificial intelligence, generative artificial intelligence and agentic solutions.\nLead technical design reviews and provide clear design pass, hold or remediation decisions.\nDesign enterprise patterns for agent orchestration, retrieval and grounding, application programming interfaces, tools, skills and enterprise-system integration.\nAssess artificial intelligence models for task suitability, quality, latency, security, economics and operational fit, and establish benchmarking approaches across model and workload classes.\nDrive token optimisation and cost-per-outcome engineering, including appropriate use of smaller, lower-cost models and routing strategies.\nDefine evaluation, observability, large language model operations (LLMOps) and model-drift patterns, including criteria to hold, roll back or promote solutions.\nDetermine when model tuning is justified versus prompting, retrieval, tool and skill design or model selection.\nBuild proofs of value for emerging technologies and convert successful findings into reusable enterprise patterns.\nIdentify opportunities for reuse before new engineering is commissioned.\nWork across platform boundaries, including cloud artificial intelligence platforms, agent frameworks and deterministic automation technologies.\nPartner with Enterprise Architecture, security, privacy and engineering teams to make sure designs meet enterprise guardrails.\nHelp mature solutions along the autonomy ladder, introducing appropriate human-in-the-loop, self-monitoring and automated remediation patterns.\nREQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS\nStrong enterprise or solution architecture experience, with hands-on depth in generative and agentic artificial intelligence architecture.\nProven experience designing production-grade agentic systems, including orchestration, tool and skill invocation, multi-agent patterns and human-in-the-loop controls.\nStrong grounding in large language models and model architecture, including model selection, benchmarking, context and token management and cost optimisation.\nDeep understanding of retrieval-augmented generation, enterprise search, embeddings, vector retrieval, grounding and knowledge integration.\nStrong knowledge of agent integration patterns, including application programming interfaces, event-driven integration and Model Context Protocol (MCP) style tool integration.\nExperience designing evaluation frameworks covering quality, groundedness, task completion, latency, safety and cost.\nExperience with large language model operations (LLMOps) or generative artificial intelligence operations, observability, model drift and production monitoring.\nStrong cloud architecture experience with at least one major hyperscaler, such as Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform.\nAbility to evaluate native platform capability versus custom pro-code engineering based on business value and architectural fit.\nStrong security and Responsible AI architecture understanding, including identity, access control, data boundaries, auditability and guardrails.\nAbility to produce clear technical design documents, reference architectures, architecture decision records and engineering standards.\nHands-on experience with enterprise artificial intelligence ecosystems such as Microsoft Azure AI, Azure OpenAI and Microsoft Foundry; Google Cloud Vertex AI and Gemini; Anthropic Claude; and Microsoft Copilot Studio and adjacent enterprise agent platforms.\nExperience with agent orchestration frameworks such as Agent Development Kit (ADK), Semantic Kernel or equivalent.\nStrong stakeholder management, with the ability to challenge engineering teams and platform vendors constructively.\nPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS\nExperience with robotic process automation (RPA) and broader hyperautomation architecture.\nExperience with prompt and context engineering.\nKnowledge of artificial intelligence financial operations (FinOps) and model economics.\nExperience with automated testing for artificial intelligence systems and continuous integration and continuous delivery patterns for prompts, agents and evaluations.\nExperience designing self-healing or NoOps-oriented automation patterns.\nExposure to agent and skill catalogues, reusable components and platform engineering.\nAbility to translate emerging technology into practical enterprise adoption decisions: adopt, wait or stop.\nExperience in fast-moving consumer goods, retail and eCommerce, or global manufacturing organisations, with an understanding of complex global operations, high transaction volumes and supply chain processes.\nAt Unilever, inclusion is at the heart of everything we do. We welcome applicants from all walks of life and are committed to creating an environment where everyone can thrive/succeed. All applicants will receive fair and respectful consideration, and we actively support the growth and development of every employee.\nUnilever is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Persons with Disabilities.\nADDITIONAL INFORMATION\nThis is an opportunity to lead the technical design authority for enterprise artificial intelligence and agentic solutions at global scale.\nYou will have the opportunity to:\n· Set the reference architectures, standards and design decisions that shape how artificial intelligence is built across Unilever.\n· Lead model selection, benchmarking and evaluation across leading cloud and model providers.\n· Turn emerging artificial intelligence technologies into proven, reusable enterprise patterns.\n· Safely progress solutions towards higher levels of autonomy.\nSuccess in this role will be reflected in:\n· A higher first-time architecture review pass rate.\n· An increased proportion of workloads using right-sized models, and reduced token and model cost per business outcome.\n· Strong model benchmark and evaluation coverage.\n· Increased reuse of approved architecture patterns, with fewer architecture exceptions and less duplicate engineering.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7201,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Cosmetics & Makeup","Cleaning & Household Products","Personal Hygiene & Toiletries","Hair Care Products"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-11T09:33:29Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":13,"reasons":["conf:6","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-12T04:07:25Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/unilever-solution-architect-skills-reusability","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/unilever-solution-architect-skills-reusability.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-12T04:07:25Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":8976,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-13T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":4977},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=4977"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Funilever-solution-architect-skills-reusability"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Funilever-solution-architect-skills-reusability"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Funilever-solution-architect-skills-reusability"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/unilever-solution-architect-skills-reusability\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Funilever-solution-architect-skills-reusability"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":4062545}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"unilever.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":4062545},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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