AI Architect (6 months contract)

Contango

Full-time Other-General
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Location
abu dhabi, abu dhabi, United-Arab-Emirates
Posted
July 08, 2026

Job Description

Contract duration: 6 months (with a potential extension)

Engagement Type: Full-time

Start date: July 2026

Location: Abu Dhabi (on-site)

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced AI Architect to define how we design, secure, and scale AI across the organization. You’ll translate business strategy into reference architectures, platform decisions, and guardrails that engineering teams execute against — balancing capability, cost, risk, and time-to-value.

Where AI Engineers ship features, you’ll shape the platform: model strategy, the data and retrieval foundation, the LLMOps backbone, the security posture, and the governance model. Increasingly, that means architecting agentic systems, multi-model routing, and responsible AI controls that comply with regulations like the EU AI Act.

Key Responsibilities
  • Define AI strategy and reference architectures for generative AI, agentic systems,...