AI Architect
Elia Group1 day ago
Brussels, BelgiumSenior
Responsibilities
- Define target architecture, standards, and governance frameworks for AI development and deployment across the organization.
- Evaluate emerging AI capabilities and determine how to implement and operationalize them in production solutions.
- Lead the design, build, and evolution of production-ready AI building blocks, blueprints, frameworks, templates, pipelines, and reference implementations.
- Create developer playbooks and reusable shared capabilities that accelerate AI adoption while supporting scalability, maintainability, and security.
- Translate technical architecture choices into business language, including risks, value, trade-offs, and opportunities.
- Coordinate technical and non-technical stakeholders across architecture, security, engineering, data science, machine learning, governance, strategy, and controlling.
- Ensure AI capabilities integrate with broader Group IT architecture principles and guidelines.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of experience in AI, cloud, or data engineering and architecture, including at least 5 years delivering AI/ML solutions in production.
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
- Experience building and operating platforms or shared technical capabilities used by multiple teams.
- Experience as an architect or technical lead in a multidisciplinary environment.
- Expertise in AI solution architecture and production-ready AI platforms and solutions.
- Strong knowledge of machine learning, generative AI, agentic AI, and the full AI model lifecycle.
- Experience with MLOps, CI/CD, monitoring, model governance, and observability.
- Extensive experience with the Microsoft Azure AI ecosystem and cloud-native engineering.
- Knowledge of platform engineering, Kubernetes, API architectures, and reusable building blocks.
- Experience with Databricks, MLflow, and vector databases.
- Understanding of cybersecurity, AI governance, compliance, and security-by-design principles.
- Fluent English; Dutch, French, and/or German are considered assets.
Benefits
- Competitive salary package with representation expense allowance, year-end bonus, vacation pay, vouchers, and individual and group performance bonuses.
- Group, hospitalisation, ambulant care, and personal accident insurance, including family coverage for relevant policies.
- Vacation allowance including annual vacation days, local days, exempt days after one year, and potential long-service days.
- Social fund benefits including year-end, birth, and marriage allowances, plus partial coverage for glasses, dental prostheses, or similar needs.
- Company-provided iPhone, phone subscription for work and private use, and laptop with internet reimbursement.
- 30% discount on the employee’s gas and electricity bill.
- Company car and public transport or mobility budget.
- Opportunity to subscribe to Elia shares at a discount.
- Brussels location near Central Station with homeworking and occasional travel to Berlin.