Job Description As a Principal AI Architect at NCS, you’ll become a trusted advisor to our clients, diving deep into their unique challenges and ambitions to strategically architect transformative AI solutions that ignite their business success. You will orchestrate the entire journey of pioneering AI initiatives – from initial concept through to sophisticated design, development, and seamless implementation. This is your chance to play an instrumental role in delivering breakthrough innovation and driving substantial growth for a diverse and impressive portfolio of clients. As a true collaborator, you'll partner with our clients, exploring their specific problems and exciting opportunities, working with our talented cross-functional teams to craft bespoke, intelligent solutions. You'll be the visionary behind robust, secure, and high-performing AI architectures and their intricate data pipelines, all meticulously tailored to address each client's distinct needs. Your expert guidance will shape the development and deployment of cutting-edge AI models, ensuring they not only meet the highest industry standards for quality and reliability but also achieve targeted, impactful client outcomes. As a technical leader, you'll inspire and mentor our AI development teams, cultivating a vibrant culture of continuous learning, client-focused innovation, and shared success. You'll be at the forefront of AI, championing research into emerging technologies to keep our solutions cutting-edge. You will also drive the optimisation of AI models for peak performance and ensure their elegant integration within client environments and existing infrastructures. Crucially, you will champion and implement robust strategies for data governance, security, and privacy, embedding ethical and responsible AI principles at the very core of every client engagement and solution we deliver.