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AI Architect (Contract)

Harnham, the leading recruitment specialist in Data & AI, is currently partnering with a well-established financial technology business with a strong focus on data, analytics, and product innovation. The organization is investing in next-generation AI-enabled decision-making and is seeking an expert consultant to help define and build the architecture that will support this vision.

  • Role: AI Architect
  • Location: remote, anywhere in the US
  • Pay: $70-80 per hour
  • Length: Extendable 6-month initial contract
  • Utilization: 40 hours/week
  • Benefits: W2 employees are eligible for health, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits.

As an AI Architect, you will play a key role in shaping the foundations of AI-powered analytics within a data-driven organization. You will work closely with internal data and engineering teams to design a scalable AI context layer, build a proof of concept, and establish the evaluation frameworks required to deliver trusted, high-quality AI-generated insights.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design a target-state architecture for an AI context and semantic layer.
  • Create a working proof of concept alongside internal data and engineering stakeholders.
  • Define how governed business context, metadata, and metric definitions should be authored, maintained, and version controlled.
  • Develop an evaluation framework that measures the quality, reliability, and accuracy of AI-generated answers.
  • Advise on integrating AI assistants with enterprise data and contextual knowledge sources.
  • Establish approaches for monitoring performance, detecting drift, and continuously improving answer quality.
  • Help create a scalable, maintainable solution that supports future AI and analytics initiatives.
  • Produce documentation and recommendations that enable successful handover and long-term adoption.

Requirements

  • Strong commercial experience designing semantic layers, metrics layers, or governed data platforms.
  • Expertise working with modern cloud data environments and analytics architectures.
  • Experience building AI, LLM, agentic AI, MCP, or retrieval-based solutions that interact with structured business data.
  • Strong knowledge of dbt and data transformation best practices.
  • Experience defining evaluation methodologies for AI systems and measuring answer accuracy.
  • Ability to communicate architectural concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Experience delivering proof of concepts, frameworks, or platform designs in collaborative environments.
  • Familiarity with technologies such as Snowflake, modern ELT tooling, analytics platforms, and AI assistants.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced AI and Data Architecture professional to shape a high-impact AI initiative from the ground up. You will work alongside senior data and engineering stakeholders, influence the future direction of AI-powered analytics, and help build scalable foundations for long-term success.

Interested? Apply today through Harnham.

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Emily Pommier

Recruitment Consultant

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