Principal Technical Architect

Job Description Overview: About Presight Presight, an ADX-listed public company limited by shares whose majority shareholder is Abu Dhabi company G42, is the region’s leading big data analytics company powered by Artificial Intelligence (“AI”). It combines big data, analytics, and AI expertise to serve every sector, of every scale, to create business and positive societal impact. With its world-class computer vision, AI and omni-analytics platform as its engine, Presight leverages all-source data to support insight-driven decision making that shapes policy and creates safer, healthier, happier, and more sustainable societies. The Opportunity: We are seeking a Principal Technical Architect - a hands-on technical leader who combines deep architectural expertise with the ability to lead and grow an AI engineering team. This is not a pure governance role: the successful candidate will personally drive critical technical decisions, contribute to design and code where needed, and own delivery outcomes alongside their team. The role sits at the intersection of architecture, AI/ML engineering, and delivery leadership, partnering closely with engineering, DevOps, cybersecurity, data, and program teams to take complex, enterprise-grade solutions from concept to production in demanding environments - including air-gapped and sovereign deployments. Responsibilities: • - Own the end-to-end architectural vision across application, data, integration, infrastructure, security, and AI domains. • - Define and enforce architecture standards, reference patterns, and engineering principles aligned with enterprise and cloud strategy. • - Govern both high-level and low-level designs (HLDs & LLDs), including service architecture, deployment topology, data models, integration patterns, and API contracts. • - Make and defend critical technical trade-offs across performance, scalability, availability, security, and cost. • - Lead the AI engineering function: set technical direction for ML pipelines, model serving, evaluation frameworks, and MLOps practices. • - Provide hands-on technical depth in modern AI/ML stacks (LLMs, computer vision, classical ML, vector search, retrieval pipelines, agentic systems where relevant). • - Drive responsible AI practices — evaluation, observability, safety, and governance — into the delivery lifecycle. • - Translate research and emerging capabilities into production-grade, deployable systems. • - Lead, mentor, and grow a cross-functional team of architects and AI/ML engineers. • - Own technical delivery accountability end-to-end: scope, design, build, deployment, and go-live. • - Identify and mitigate technical risks and dependencies early. • - Establish a strong engineering culture rooted in code quality, security-by-design, and operational excellence. • - Engage senior stakeholders, including C-level, to align business objectives with technical strategy. • - Lead technical conversations with vendors, partners, and system integrators. • - Contribute to proposals, SoWs, and transformation programs as the senior technical authority. • Comply with QHSE (Quality Health Safety and Environment), Business Continuity, Information Security, Privacy, Risk, Compliance Management, and Governance of Organizations policies, procedures, plans, and related risk assessments. Qualifications: • - 10+ years of experience spanning solution architecture, engineering leadership, and hands-on technical delivery. • - Proven track record leading architecture and engineering teams on large-scale enterprise transformation or AI programs. • - Demonstrable hands-on depth - this role is not for someone who has stopped engineering. • - Deep expertise across: • - Cloud-native and hybrid infrastructure (Kubernetes, containers, service mesh, IaC) • - Data platforms and advanced analytics (streaming, lakehouse, distributed compute) • - AI/ML systems at production scale, including LLMs and computer vision • - MLOps, model lifecycle management, and AI observability • - Enterprise integration, API design, and event-driven architectures • - Air-gapped, sovereign, and high-assurance data centre environments • - Security architecture, zero-trust principles, and security-by-design • - Experience managing and mentoring senior engineers and architects. • - Strong stakeholder management and executive-level communication skills. What working at Presight offers: Culture: An open, diverse and inclusive environment with a global vision that encourages personal growth and focuses on ground-breaking, industry-first innovations. Career: Outstanding learning, development & growth opportunities via structured training programs and innovative, high-tech projects. Rewards: A competitive remuneration package with a host of perks including healthcare, education support, leave benefits and more. Show more Show less