AI Architect I''m currently working with a leading consulting client as they are seeking an AI Architect for a project related collaboration. Initial contract length: 12 months Working Model: Hybrid (2-3 days per week) Rate: 550-600 About the Role Hands-on senior IC role designing, building, and productionising enterprise-grade multi-agent AI systems at scale Operates across the full agentic stack - orchestration, model management, RAG, observability, and evaluation Key Responsibilities Architect production-grade multi-agent workflows using frameworks such as LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen etc. Design and implement agent orchestration patterns - intent detection, dynamic agent routing, conversation state management, and hierarchical multi-agent topologies Build and govern MCP (Model Context Protocol) Servers exposing enterprise tools, internal systems, APIs, and data sources as structured, auditable agent tool surfaces. Knowledge of A2A is an advantage. Develop against and configure AI Gateway platforms (LiteLLM, AWS Bedrock, Azure API Management, Apigee AI Extensions) for multi-model routing, cost controls, quota enforcement, and model fallback Integrate Responsible AI guardrails - PII masking, content moderation, toxicity filtering, and policy enforcement - across the model invocation layer Own RAG pipeline design and optimisation - chunking strategy, embedding model selection, hybrid retrieval, reranking, hallucination mitigation etc. Build and maintain LLM evaluation fr