Our client, a leading global multinational information technology services and consulting company, is recruiting an AI Architect to join their business in the Netherlands. Position Title: AI Architect Position Type: Permanent Start Date: ASAP Location: The Hague, Netherlands Contact: Bojan | +49 89 23 88 98 671 Role Summary We are looking for a hands-on AI Architect who designs and builds enterprise‑scale Generative AI systems. This is not a conceptual or advisory role. You will stay close to the code, guide low-level implementation, review pull requests, and help teams solve real production challenges in GenAI systems deployed on Azure and AWS. Telecoms domain Experience 10+ years of experience in software engineering and enterprise architecture 5+ years of hands-on experience building AI/ML and Generative AI solutions What You Will Do Actively design and build enterprise-grade GenAI solutions for real business use cases. Own end-to-end AI architecture, from model selection and retrieval strategy to APIs, orchestration, and cloud deployment. Write code and prototypes using Python, FastAPI, LangChain, LangGraph, and MCP. Design and implement RAG pipelines including chunking strategies, embeddings, vector search, and hybrid retrieval. Build and guide multi-agent systems with tool calling, memory/context management, and fallback handling. Dive into low-level technical details to unblock teams (retrieval quality, latency, hallucinations, cost issues). Make architecture-level trade-offs across accuracy, latency, scalability, reliability, and cost. Deploy and operate GenAI systems on Azure and AWS, ensuring scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency. Implement observability: logging, tracing, token usage tracking, and performance monitoring. Establish hands-on best practices for prompt versioning, evaluation, testing, and AI quality assurance. Implement guardrails and safety controls including content filtering, PII protection, hallucination mitigation, and access control. Design secure architectures using OAuth, Azure AD / IAM, RBAC, compliance, and audit logging. Review code, document architectural decisions, and mentor engineers by working alongside them. What You Must Bring Strong hands-on experience with LLMs, RAG, Agentic AI, and prompt engineering. Proven ability to code, debug, and optimize production AI systems. Solid experience building GenAI solutions on both Azure and AWS (cloud-agnostic mindset). Hands-on experience with: Azure OpenAI, Claude or similar LLM platforms LangChain, LangGraph, MCP Redis, PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB, vector databases Deep understanding of distributed systems and cloud-native architecture. Ability to guide teams at implementation level, not just through design documents What Does This Role Is? A builder-architect role with real coding and implementation Deep involvement in design, debugging, and optimization Technical leadership through hands-on guidance For more details contact: sales(at)manningglobal.com Quoting reference: NE_MGBU_AIA_ Or call Bojan on: +49 89 23 88 98 671 View our latest jobs: www.manningglobal.com Follow us on twitter: @ManningGlobal