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Principal EMEA AI TokenOps Solution Architect

Microsoft· Solution Architecture
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London, Schiphol, Ljubljana£96.4k - £195.1kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Principal role leading TokenOps capability across EMEA within the Frontier Transformation team, shaping strategic opportunities and directing customer architecture, delivery, and regional scale for AI, cloud transformations, and governance requirements.

Responsibilities

  • Shape the most strategic EMEA TokenOps opportunities, aligning executive priorities, regulatory obligations, transformation scope, and measurable customer outcomes.
  • Lead architecture workshops and governance forums that resolve complex decisions across business, technology, security, data, risk, and finance stakeholders.
  • Set the target Azure AI Foundry architecture for agents, RAG, model access, orchestration, integration, and enterprise operations.
  • Guide pilots and prototypes that test the highest-risk assumptions and establish an evidence-based path to production and scale.
  • Define model routing and evaluation strategies that balance quality, latency, resilience, cost, explainability, and regulatory expectations.
  • Establish TokenOps observability that connects agent and model behavior to tokens, costs, controls, service outcomes, and customer value.
  • Use FinOps unit economics to frame architecture tradeoffs, investment choices, operating models, and scale decisions for executive sponsors.
  • Direct data, API, identity, network, security, and Responsible AI architecture across complex customer estates and delivery partners.
  • Translate GDPR, EU AI Act, sovereignty, data-residency, and market-specific obligations into actionable architecture and delivery controls.
  • Provide principal-level technical leadership, design assurance, escalation support, and coaching across EMEA engagements.
  • Create reusable EMEA shaping and delivery patterns and feed regional requirements into the global TokenOps product and practice roadmap.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in a technical field, or equivalent experience, and significant years in enterprise solution architecture.
  • Principal-level leadership of complex AI or cloud transformations involving multiple business units, technology domains, or delivery organizations across EMEA.
  • Deep knowledge of Azure AI Foundry and production architectures for enterprise AI, agents, and RAG solutions.
  • Experience designing model routing, evaluation, observability, and operational-governance capabilities for AI systems.
  • Ability to connect FinOps unit economics, technical telemetry, and architecture choices to executive investment and scale decisions.
  • Strong data, API, identity, network, security, and enterprise-integration architecture expertise.
  • Demonstrated application of security and Responsible AI requirements throughout architecture and delivery.
  • Working knowledge of GDPR, the EU AI Act, sovereignty, data residency, and related EMEA regulatory considerations.
  • Executive communication, architecture-governance, and consulting judgment sufficient to lead ambiguous, high-stakes customer decisions.

Skills

Required:Azure AI FoundryModel routing and evaluationFinOps unit economicsSecurity and Responsible AIGDPR/EU AI Act/regulatory knowledge

Benefits

  • Find additional benefits and pay information at the provided Microsoft careers link.
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