AI Solution Architect (Contract)Our client, a leading British airline, is building an AI Factory to scale AI safely across its brands. They need an AI Solution Architect to design the solutions that run on it.Location: Heathrow on-site/hybrid The role You''ll design secure, scalable AI and agentic solutions that fit enterprise architecture and reuse the AI Factory''s shared capabilities. You''ll connect business requirements and product intent to detailed engineering design, with a credible path from prototype to production.What you''ll doDesign end-to-end architectures for agent and workflow automationChoose models, orchestration patterns, data sources, and integration approachesDefine the boundaries between deterministic software, probabilistic AI, and human decision-makingBuild in identity, data protection, resilience, observability, and cost from day oneDesign evaluation, fallback, escalation, and human-in-the-loop mechanismsProduce architecture decisions, patterns, and reusable reference designsReview implementations and guide engineering teams through major technical decisionsWhat you''ll bringHands-on solution architecture experience with strong cloud, integration, and distributed-systems skillsPractical knowledge of LLMs, agents, retrieval, and evaluationThe judgement to keep solutions appropriately simple, with explicit trade-offsIdeal candidates from strategy consulting backgrounds If you''ve worked for MBB consulting, or a comparable firm and moved into hands-on ..... full job details .....