Summary: Join HBK as an AI Architect to define and deliver enterprise AI strategy, architect intelligent agents, and provide technical thought leadership globally. Highlights: 1. Define and deliver HBK's enterprise AI strategy 2. Influence the future of HBK's digital landscape 3. Lead AI architecture and digital transformation **The Opportunity** 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. **Skills \& Qualifications** ---------------------------- * Autonomy: Operates under broad direction and manages complex AI solution delivery to time, cost and quality targets. * Influence \& Leadership: Influences stakeholders, builds expert networks, and communicates complex AI concepts to non‑technical audiences. * Complexity Management: Works across diverse enterprise systems and resolves technical and organisational barriers to AI adoption. * Technical Expertise: Knowledge of Azure AI/OpenAI services, MLOps tooling, data governance, API integrations, cloud infrastructure and secure AI engineering practices including agentic /spec\-driven development and orchestration. ***Knowledge:*** * Machine learning and deep learning concepts * MLOps, model deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management * Data engineering and pipeline architecture (ETL/ELT, distributed systems) * AI Systems \& Platform Knowledge * AI model integration with business applications * Multi‑agent architectures and orchestration frameworks * Generative AI model usage and constraints * Knowledge of AI platforms (Azure AI, AWS, Google Cloud, etc.) ***Enterprise Architecture \& Systems Design Skills:*** * Across data, application, platform, and integration layers * Scalable and secure architectures * AI‑enhanced enterprise architecture patterns * Digital twins for testing architecture scenarios * Knowledge graphs for grounding AI outputs * AI‑assisted capability mapping ***Responsible AI, Governance \& Security*** **competence in:** * Responsible AI practices \& compliance * Data governance, access control, and lineage * Guardrails for model safety and reliability * Vulnerability detection (e.g., prompt manipulation, model security) ***Experience:*** * Designing large‑scale distributed systems and integrating AI into enterprise workflows. * Designing and deploying AI/ML systems and integrating AI with enterprise platforms such as SAP, Salesforce, and Microsoft 365\. * Modernizing legacy platforms using AI‑first strategies. * Cross‑domain architecture experience (EA frameworks, cloud architecture, microservices, APIs) an advantage. * Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, AI, Data Science, Software Engineering or equivalent experience. **Why Explore a Career at HBK** ------------------------------- * Competitive compensation and recognition for impactful contributions. * Work From Anywhere policy supporting work‑life balance. * Comprehensive health insurance and generous vacation benefits. * A culture of innovation, continuous learning and global collaboration. * Opportunities to work with international teams and access to learning resources for career advancement. **We Offer** At HBK, we believe in freedom with responsibility, enabling a healthy work\-life balance and continuous professional development. You will join an international team in an innovative and enjoyable working environment. **About HBK** On January 1, 2019, Brüel \& Kjær and HBM merged to form HBK (Hottinger Brüel \& Kjær). With over 3,500 employees worldwide, production facilities in Denmark, Germany, the UK, the USA, China, and Portugal, and a presence in 80 countries, HBK is a global leader in test and measurement solutions. Learn more at https://www.hbkworld.com.