Lead AI Architect £110,000 About the Role We are seeking a Lead AI Architect to design and deliver cutting-edge AI, ML and Generative AI solutions within large, complex organisations in the insurance sector. This role sits at the forefront of AI-driven transformation, shaping architecture strategies, enabling scalable AI platforms and integrating advanced machine learning capabilities into mission-critical systems. This position is ideal for someone who combines deep technical expertise with strong architectural leadership. You will work across conceptual, logical and physical AI architectures, defining standards, selecting technologies and ensuring models and platforms are secure, scalable and production-ready. You will collaborate with senior stakeholders, engineering teams, data scientists and business leaders while playing a critical role in driving technical decision-making, ensuring architectural quality and embedding AI capabilities that align to organisational strategy and regulatory expectations. Responsibilities Lead AI/ML/GenAI architectural design across major insurance transformation programmesTranslate strategic objectives into AI architecture roadmaps, operating models and solution designsDesign scalable AI architectures integrating with cloud and insurance-specific systemsSelect and recommend appropriate cloud, open-source and third-party AI technologiesSupport delivery of pilot and production AI use cases alongside data scientists and engineersChampion respo