Senior Technology Architect | AI/RAG platform & Python & IaC | Derby

Role - Senior Technology Architect (AI)
Location - Derby, UK
Business Unit - Manufacturing
Compensation - Competitive (including bonus)

Job Description

Today, the corporate landscape is dynamic and the world ahead is full of possibilities! None of the amazing things we do at Infosys would be possible without an equally amazing culture, the environment where ideas can flourish and where you are empowered to move forward as far as your ideas will take you.

At Infosys, we assure that your career will never stand still, we will inspire you to build what's next and we will navigate further together. Our journey of learnability, values and trusted relationships with our clients continue to be the cornerstones of our organization and these values are upheld only because of our people.

Your role

• Defining architecture solutions with modernization initiatives and providing technical solutions leadership across multiple teams and enterprise programs.
• Design end-to-end DevOps blueprints covering build, release, monitoring, IaC, and security.
• Build and govern AI/LLM platforms with RAG, and set Python engineering standards for scalable, secure, and observable systems.
• Lead Python services for APIs (FastAPI), ETL/ELT & streaming (Pandas/PySpark/Event Hub/Kafka), and ML pipelines.
• Own AI/RAG platform and establish golden paths and accelerators: IaC modules (Terraform/Bicep), multi-stage YAML pipelines, service scaffolds, and policy bundles.
• Team management and team building
• Identification and mitigation of technical risks.

Required

• At least 15+ years of IT experience in total, in which at least 5+ years in similar Senior Technical Architect role.
• Good to have: Good understanding of Aerospace MRO industry domain.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management along with decision-making in complex environments.
• Candidate must have technical solutioning experience, multiple project delivery, people management and leadership skills.
• Extensive experience working with multi-disciplinary, cross-functional teams

Core Technical Skills Required

• IaC: Terraform (preferred), Bicep, ARM; GitOps (Flux/Argo); Policy-as-Code (Azure Policy/OPA/Conftest)
• Models: Azure OpenAI (GPT-4/4o family), OSS (Llama/Mistral) via ONNX/Triton as needed.
• Orchestration: LangChain, Semantic Kernel, Prompt Flow; tools/agents; guardrails and safety policies.
• Search & Vectors: Azure AI Search, PostgreSQL + pgvector, Milvus, Pinecone; hybrid search + rerankers (bge/Cohere).
• Python 3.x, FastAPI, Pydantic, asyncio; testing (pytest), typing (mypy), linting (ruff/black), packaging (Poetry).

Personal
Besides the professional qualifications of the candidates we place great importance in addition to various forms personality profile. These include:
• High technical and analytical skills
• A high degree of initiative and flexibility
• High customer orientation
• High quality awareness
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

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