AI Architect

About the role

Join HBK's Chief Digital Officer organisation as our AI Architect, reporting directly to the Director of Digital Futures. You will define and deliver our enterprise AI strategy across our data ecosystems and platforms including SAP, Salesforce, Microsoft 365 Co‑Pilot and internal team systems. Working with global business teams, you will identify high‑value AI use cases, architect intelligent agents, and guide teams through adoption and scaling. As we digitally transform HBK, you will help define our world-leading AI capabilities in how we serve our customers and colleagues. Drawing on your extensive industry experience, you will craft strategies to transform our architecture, aligning it with and enabling our business objectives. You will provide unique, industry-grounded technical thought leadership to our digital, IT and application teams globally. This is a unique opportunity to influence the future of HBK's digital landscape, fostering collaboration across international teams and setting industry standards. Your contributions will be instrumental in shaping our business to meet the evolving needs of our customers worldwide. Enterprise AI Architecture Strategy Develop and implement enterprise-wide AI architectures for products and solutions, embedding automation, data governance and secure by design thinking within the organization. Lead the creation and review of AI system capability strategies and features that meet the strategic requirements of the business, ensuring buy-in from all key stakeholders. Capture and prioritize market and environmental trends in AI impacting business strategies, and objectives. Identify the business benefits of alternative strategies and develop compelling business cases for approval, funding, and prioritization of high-level AI initiatives. Set strategies, policies, standards, and practices to ensure alignment and compliance between business strategies, technology strategies, and enterprise transformation activities enabled by AI. AI Architecture Leadership Develop organizational policies, standards, and guidelines for AI solution configuration design, deployment and maintenance. Lead the development of AI architectures for complex solutions ensuring consistency with agreed requirements. Establish policies, principles and practices for the selection of AI solution architecture components at a HBK wide level. Manage trade-offs and balances functional, service quality and systems management requirements for HBK. Maintain a stable, viable architecture at an enterprise level, and ensures consistency of design and adherence to appropriate standards across the enterprise portfolio. Role Competencies - AI Strategy & Innovation: Define enterprise AI strategy, identify and prioritise business use cases, evaluate emerging technologies, and create AI roadmaps connecting enterprise systems to intelligent workflows. - Enterprise AI Architecture: Architect AI systems, agent frameworks, RAG pipelines, and integration patterns while ensuring compliance with security, governance, and responsible AI standards. - AI Solution Design & Implementation: Lead design and development of AI agents and copilots that integrate with SAP, Salesforce, Microsoft 365 and other platforms. Provide training and enablement to teams adopting AI. - Digital Transformation & AI Leadership: Champion adoption, coach cross‑functional teams, and influence senior stakeholders on AI strategy and investment. - Performance Measurement: Establish OKRs and KPIs for AI initiatives and continuously evaluate solution performance.