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Uniper

AI Principal Architect – Lead

Uniper

. Own and continuously enhance AI platforms and solution architecture across the full stack, including model lifecycle, agent orchestration, and application integration .

Posted 10/23/2026full-timeDüsseldorf • GermanySeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AzureCloudITSM

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Own and continuously enhance AI platforms and solution architecture across the full stack, including model lifecycle, agent orchestration, and application integration
  • Establish and enforce architectural principles, standards, and reference architectures for AI and GenAI solutions
  • Evaluate, select, and govern AI technologies, frameworks, platforms, and cloud services aligned with Uniper’s enterprise strategy
  • Architect solutions for scalability, resilience, security, performance, and cost efficiency
  • Provide technical leadership to AI engineering, platform, and architecture teams
  • Serve as the escalation point for complex technical decisions
  • Collaborate with product owners, security, data, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into production-ready AI solutions
  • Define and govern architectural decision records, documentation standards, and design review processes
  • Ensure architecture complies with security, privacy, and regulatory obligations, including risk assessments and control alignment
  • Lead evaluation of strategic technology options and vendor offerings and provide investment recommendations
  • Oversee operational readiness, observability, reliability engineering practices, and lifecycle support for production-grade platform operations
  • Represent AI architecture in governance boards and architecture forums
  • Define and maintain the platform architecture roadmap and drive capability maturity
  • Conduct architecture reviews for strategic initiatives
  • Contribute to the AI platform operating model, including service definitions, KPIs/SLAs, and ITSM integration
  • Establish and lead an architecture community of practice, including coaching, knowledge sharing, and reusable patterns and accelerators

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related discipline
  • Proven experience designing, deploying, and operating enterprise-grade AI platforms
  • Extensive expertise in Microsoft Azure architecture, GenAIOps, MLOps, and AI platform engineering
  • Experience leading technical teams through complex, cross-functional delivery initiatives
  • Deep knowledge of security-by-design principles, compliance expectations, and governance frameworks for regulated enterprise environments
  • Growth mindset and willingness to continuously develop relevant skills and capabilities
  • Strong architectural and technical leadership and stakeholder management skills
  • Experience establishing and operating architecture governance, including design reviews, standards enforcement, and decision traceability
  • Hands-on experience designing for operational excellence, including reliability, observability, performance optimization, and cost management of production services
  • Practical experience implementing responsible AI controls and risk management measures, including model monitoring, evaluation, and human-in-the-loop mechanisms where required
  • Generative AI, large language model (LLM) platforms, and agent-based solution architecture experience advantageous
  • Relevant certifications in cloud, AI/ML, security, or enterprise architecture advantageous
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD for ML, model registries, automated testing, and deployment patterns highly beneficial
  • Experience integrating AI platforms with enterprise data ecosystems and application landscapes, including API management and event-driven integration, an asset
  • Exposure to responsible AI standards, model risk management, and audit-ready controls in regulated environments an advantage
  • Demonstrated success collaborating with offshore partners and operating across time zones
  • Fluent business-level English
  • German proficiency advantageous
  • Strategic, systems-level thinking and structured complex problem-solving approach
  • Ability to balance innovation with risk management, compliance requirements, and operational stability

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Attractive salary
  • Excellent company pension
  • Health-related benefits
  • Flexible working arrangements
  • Home office equipment
  • Regular training and workshops
  • Supportive working culture
  • Modern and ergonomic equipment for home and office
  • Sabbaticals
  • Part-time possibilities
  • Family service
  • Bike leasing offer (deferred compensation)
  • E-car charging stations at almost all Uniper locations
  • Flu vaccination
  • Preventive health services
  • Employee assistance program
  • Employer-funded contributions to a modern pension system
  • Possibility of self-funded contributions with employer-funded matching
  • Lifelong training
  • Coaching
  • Additional local benefits