AI Engineering Lead/Architect

Roboyo AI is a category shaper in Applied AI and Agentic Automation.

We help leading enterprises move from automation projects and AI experiments into governed, production-grade systems that execute real work across workflows, processes, products and services.

 

Our heritage is in scaled enterprise automation; our future is Applied AI and Agentic Automation: autonomous agents, AI engineering squads, process orchestration, data and knowledge foundations, and human-in-the-loop governance embedded deeply into how our clients operate.

 

We are not here to sell AI theatre. We are here to turn AI into working systems, measurable outcomes and repeatable transformation programs.

 

About the Role

Across our practices, AI experimentation is organic: agents and accelerators get prototyped, they work, and they find their way to the teams who need them. Working is not the same as dependable, tested, hardened, properly deployed, and fit for a regulated client. Closing that distance and turning experimentation into an engineering discipline is the job. 

 

You will build and lead our AI engineering team: you, a Senior Engineer and a DevOps Engineer, and own the path from idea to production across every asset class. You will work with the SMEs within the practices to bring the prioritised pilots into products that deliver return.   

You are the final technical decision-maker on what ships. Roughly two-thirds of your week is hands-on: architecture, code, review. The rest is direction, hiring and the operating model. You will not be post-technical in this role.

 

Responsibilities

• Own the AI 

  delivery operating model

   

  and

   the 

  path from prototype to production

  , 

  from

   intake, qualification, build, hardening

   to 

  r

  ollout across accelerators and client-facing IP.

• Build and lead the AI 

  engineering team

  : hire the two engineers, set the standards, review the code, unblock, grow

   – and work 

  with SMEs across pr

  acti

  ces to design, build

  , deploy and 

  maintain

   the apps

  .

• Personally

   

  build

  , ship

  , 

  harden agentic solutions

  , and 

  own the

   assets

   

  you 

  oversee

  .

• Own a

  rchitecture 

  and production standards for all solutions: solution architecture, infrastructure, model selection, validation.

• Turn 

  governance into engineering

  : policy-as-code, guardrails, eval and release gates that run in the pipeline

  ,

   controls our regulated clients would recognise, without slowing the build.

• Embed 

  AI capability across our practices

  : partner with 

  automation, application 

  engineering

   

  and consulting SMEs so their prototypes have a path to production

  .

 

Requirements

• 8+ years in Engineering roles (software engineer, architect, platform or engineering lead)

• A production system you owned and defined (not contributed to). You defined its architecture, took it to production, and operated it – an e-commerce platform, ERP, a trading system, an internal product. You can walk us through the trade-offs you made and what you would do differently now.

• Player-coach track record. You have led engineers as their technical lead or manager, owned the architecture of systems they’ve built, while continuing to ship production code yourself. You shipped production code yourself in the last 12 months.

• Azure at expert level. Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305), or 5+ years designing and running production Azure workloads, AKS or Container Apps, VNets, Entra ID, Key Vault, managed databases, infrastructure as code.

• You have delivered software governed by ISO 27001, SOC 2, DORA, HIPAA or equivalent, and you implemented the controls as running code: release gates, automated checks, policy-as-code, access control in the pipeline.

• At least one production system where Python was the primary language.

• AI-native by practice. You have built your own agents; have run open-weight models yourself (Ollama, llama.cpp, vLLM or similar), and AI coding agents are part of your workflow. Send us something you built – a repo, a write-up, a demo.

**What would set you apart

?**

• Claude Certified Architect (Foundations or Professional)

• Microsoft Agentic AI Business Solutions Architect (AB-100)

• LLM or agentic systems you have already taken to production

• You have deployed accelerators or productised IP across more than one client

What this role is not

Advisory. Research. Management-only. 

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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