AI Solution Architect (Presales)


Company:	Hays Specialist Recruitment
Salary:	£90,000 to £110,000 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	City of London, EC2V 6DN
Working pattern:	Hybrid - 2 days remote
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	9 Sept 2026
Closing date:	9 Oct 2026

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Summary

AI Solutions Architect (Pre-Sales)

Please read the job advert carefully, and get in touch with Lorenz Pasch at Hays Recruitment ASAP. My full contact details are available on my LinkedIn profile

London | Hybrid | Permanent |

£90,000-£110,000

I'm working with a global organisation investing heavily in its AI capability and looking for an AI Solution Architect to play a key role in shaping what comes next.

The role sits at the intersection of AI architecture, hands-on technical delivery and advisory. You'll help define how AI solutions should be designed and built, guide engineers through delivery, and work directly with senior stakeholders on complex business problems.

There is also a genuine client-facing element, so this would particularly suit someone who enjoys combining deep technical expertise with consulting, solutioning and pre-sales.

The Role

You'll take ownership of end-to-end architecture across a growing portfolio of AI initiatives, covering both internal transformation and external solutions.

You'll be responsible for:

Translating business problems into practical AI architectures and technical solutions

Owning solution design from initial requirements through to delivery

Architecting agentic AI systems using model APIs, orchestration frameworks, RAG and retrieval patterns

Making informed decisions between different models, platforms, low-code solutions and custom development

Designing integrations, APIs, data pipelines and the underlying data architecture required by AI applications

Working extensively across Microsoft technologies including Copilot Studio, Power Platform, Azure and Microsoft 365

Establishing reusable architectural patterns and engineering standards

Considering security, governance, performance, resilience, data residency and cost throughout solution design

Providing technical direction and mentorship to engineers

Supporting client conversations, technical discovery, proposals and pre-sales activity

Presenting complex technical concepts credibly to both technical and non-technical stakeholder

About You

I'm interested in speaking with people from Solution Architecture, AI Engineering, Solutions Engineering, Forward Deployed Engineering or technical consulting backgrounds.

You'll ideally bring strong experience across several of the following:

AI / LLM solution architecture

Agentic AI systems

RAG and retrieval architectures

Model APIs and orchestration frameworks

Microsoft Copilot Studio

Power Platform / Power Automate / Dataverse

Azure and Microsoft 365

Python and/or TypeScript

APIs, integrations and data architecture

AI governance, security and cost optimisation

Technical consulting, stakeholder management or pre-sales

Why Consider This Role?

This an opportunity to join at an unusually interesting point in the organisation's AI journey.

Rather than inheriting a mature function and maintaining somebody else's architecture, you'll have significant influence over how the capability develops - including technology choices, engineering standards, delivery approach and future team direction.

You'll also get exposure to both internal AI transformation and external advisory work, giving the role considerably more breadth than a standard internal Solution Architect position.

If you're currently working across AI architecture, solutions engineering, FDE or technical consulting and want a role where you can genuinely help build the capability rather than simply operate within it, I'd be interested in speaking with you ASAP.

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