Senior Technology Architect AI/RAG platform & Python & IaC Derby

Role - Senior Technology Architect (AI)

Location - Derby, UK

Business Unit - Manufacturing

Compensation - Competitive (including bonus)

Job Description

Today, the corporate landscape is dynamic and the world ahead is full of possibilities! None of the amazing things we do at Infosys would be possible without an equally amazing culture, the environment where ideas can flourish and where you are empowered to move forward as far as your ideas will take you.

At Infosys, we assure that your career will never stand still, we will inspire you to build what's next and we will navigate further together. Our journey of learnability, values and trusted relationships with our clients continue to be the cornerstones of our organization and these values are upheld only because of our people.

Your role

• Defining architecture solutions with modernization initiatives and providing technical solutions leadership across multiple teams and enterprise programs.
• Design end-to-end DevOps blueprints covering build, release, monitoring, IaC, and security.
• Build and govern AI/LLM platforms with RAG, and set Python engineering standards for scalable, secure, and observable systems.
• Lead Python services for APIs (FastAPI), ETL/ELT & streaming (Pandas/PySpark/Event Hub/Kafka), and ML pipelines.
• Own AI/RAG platform and establish golden paths and accelerators: IaC modules (Terraform/Bicep), multi-stage YAML pipelines, service scaffolds, and policy bundles.
• Team management and team building.
• Identification and mitigation of technical risks.

Required

• At least 15+ years of IT experience in total, in which at least 5+ years in similar Senior Technical Architect role.
• Good to have: Good understanding of Aerospace MRO industry domain.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management along with decision making in complex environments.
• Candidate must have technical solutioning experience, multiple project delivery, people management and leadership skills.
• Extensive experience working with multi-disciplinary, cross functional teams.

Core Technical Skills Required

• IaC: Terraform (preferred), Bicep, ARM; GitOps (Flux/Argo); Policy as Code (Azure Policy/OPA/Conftest)
• Models: Azure OpenAI (GPT 4/4o family), OSS (Llama/Mistral) via ONNX/Triton as needed.
• Orchestration: LangChain, Semantic Kernel, Prompt Flow; tools/agents; guardrails and safety policies.
• Search & Vectors: Azure AI Search, PostgreSQL + pgvector, Milvus, Pinecone; hybrid search + rerankers (bge/Cohere).
• Python 3.x, FastAPI, Pydantic, asyncio; testing (pytest), typing (mypy), linting (ruff/black), packaging (Poetry).

Personal

• High technical and analytical skills
• A high degree of initiative and flexibility
• High customer orientation
• High quality awareness
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

About Infosys

Infosys is a global leader in next generation digital services and consulting. We enable clients in 46 countries to navigate their digital transformation. With over three decades of experience in managing the systems and workings of global enterprises, we expertly steer our clients through the many next of their digital journey. We do it by enabling the enterprise with an AI powered core that helps prioritize the execution of change. We also empower the business with agile digital at scale to deliver unprecedented levels of performance and customer delight. Our always on learning agenda drives their continuous improvement through building and transferring digital skills, expertise and ideas from our innovation ecosystem.

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Equal Opportunity Statement

All aspects of employment at Infosys are based on merit, competence and performance. We are committed to embracing diversity and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Infosys is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.