Cloud Architect / AI Platform Owner

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Summary: Seeking an experienced Cloud Architect / AI Platform Owner to standardize AI stacks, manage instructions, implement guardrails, and ensure governance and security. Highlights: 1. Opportunity to lead AI stack standardization and instruction management 2. Focus on technical guardrails, safety, and developer experience 3. Integrate EU AI Act principles and lead secure development policies Excelia is a multinational company in Consulting, Technology, and Professional Services with over 25 years of experience. We provide services in more than 50 countries across Europe, Latin America, and the United States through our 10 own offices. Do you have experience in Cloud and AI and are you looking for a new challenge? Then this opportunity is for you! **Position:** Cloud Architect / AI Platform Owner **Location:** Brussels, Belgium (1x per week in the office) Main responsibilities: * **AI Stack Standardization**: Select and maintain the enterprise AI stack (models, frameworks, orchestrations, vector stores) and define approval processes from POC to production. * **Instruction Management**: Design and deploy tooling for instruction hierarchy, including versioning, deployment, and monitoring. * **Guardrails \& Safety**: Implement technical guardrails (sandboxing, policy enforcement, AI firewalls) and real\-time detection of policy violations. * **Developer Experience**: Provide self\-service capabilities (IDEs, APIs, templates) and "paved road" workflows to enable teams while preventing shadow IT. * **Observability \& FinOps**: Ensure end\-to\-end visibility of agent behavior and manage cost allocation/optimization for inference and compute. * **Governance \& Security**: Integrate EU AI Act principles (traceability, explainability) and lead secure development policies. Mandatory requirements: * **Technical Skills:** \* Strong experience in Cloud \& Platform engineering (**Azure/AWS**) with an AI focus. + Deep knowledge of **LLMs** and **agentic AI patterns** (MCP, A2A, tool\-use, planning/execution loops). + Experience with MLOps/Model serving (Azure AI, Bedrock, RAG architectures). + Knowledge of **Policy\-as\-code** (e.g., OPA) and AI content safety filtering. + Infrastructure as Code (**Terraform**) and CI/CD (**GitHub Actions**). * **Experience:** \* Minimum 10 years of all\-round IT experience. + 8\+ years in cloud platform engineering or enterprise architecture. + 3\+ years of proven experience with AI/ML in a production context. * **Languages:** Fluent in **English**, plus proficiency in **Dutch and/or French**. If you believe you are a good fit, don’t hesitate to apply for this opportunity