Principal AI Platform Architect
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Informa TechTarget (Nasdaq: TTGT) informs, influences and connects the world’s technology buyers and sellers, to accelerate growth from R&D to ROI.
With an unparalleled reach of over 220 highly targeted technology-specific websites and more than 50 million permissioned first-party audience members, Informa TechTarget has a unique understanding of and insight into technology markets.
Underpinned by those audiences and their data, we offer expert-led, data-driven, and digitally enabled services that deliver significant impact and measurable outcomes to our clients. We provide our customers with:
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We are seeking an experienced Principal AI Platform Architect to define and build the next generation of our AI platform and cloud-native application ecosystem. This is a senior technical leadership role responsible for designing scalable, secure, and resilient platforms that enable AI-powered products, intelligent automation, and modern software development across the organization.
The ideal candidate is hands on technologist with extensive experience designing cloud-native applications and AI-enabled platforms. They understand how modern APIs, event-driven systems, orchestration frameworks, and agentic AI capabilities come together to create enterprise-scale solutions that are secure, observable, and operationally efficient.
This role partners closely with product leadership, engineering teams, and executive stakeholders to establish architectural direction, define platform standards, and guide the implementation of next-generation AI capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and build a scalable AI platform supporting LLMs, agentic workflows, and federated development across multiple teams
- Establish architectural standards for AI governance, security, evaluation strategies, and operational excellence
- Architect cloud-native solutions on Google Cloud Platform supporting enterprise-scale workloads
- Define platform patterns for microservices, event-driven architectures, and API-first design
- Build CICD pipelines that deploy automatically to the cloud while interfacing with legacy systems
- Provide architecture guidance and governance across engineering teams through reviews and standards
- Balance strategic platform vision with hands-on implementation to earn respect from engineering teams
- Enable teams to add new components, agents, and functionalities within the overarching platform
Required Qualifications & Technical Experience
- 10+ years designing and delivering enterprise software platforms with proven success at scale
- Strong GCP expertise - deep understanding of Google Cloud Platform services, semantics, and AI capabilities (Vertex AI preferred)
- AI platform experience building production systems that support product use cases, including agentic frameworks, LLMs, and orchestration
- Evaluation strategy experience - particularly building eval loops in production for monitoring and tuning AI systems (highly preferred)
- Event-driven architecture and distributed systems expertise with understanding of microservices and APIs
- Platform security and governance knowledge, including responsible AI practices
- Python proficiency (primary language for AI development), plus experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud-native tools
- Exceptional communication skills with ability to influence technical direction across multiple engineering organizations
What Success Looks Like
Within your first year, you will:
Establish the architectural vision for our enterprise AI platform.
Define reusable cloud-native platform patterns supporting AI-enabled applications.
Enable engineering teams through standardized platform capabilities and architectural guidance.
Improve platform scalability, security, observability, and operational efficiency.
Accelerate the adoption of AI capabilities while ensuring strong governance, reliability, and engineering quality.
Additional Information
We believe that great things happen when people connect face-to-face. That's why we work in-person with each other, or with customers and partners, three days a week or more. When you’re not spending time together in one of our offices or other workplaces – like at an Informa event – you get the flexibility and support to work from home or remotely.
TechTarget, Inc., doing business as Informa TechTarget, including its subsidiaries is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. We strictly prohibit and do not tolerate discrimination against employees, applicants, or any other covered persons because of race, color, sex (including pregnancy), age, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, training, promotion, discipline, compensation, benefits, and termination of employment. If you would like to request reasonable adjustments or accommodations to assist your participation in the hiring process and, or in the advertised position, please inform the appropriate Talent Acquisition Partner for the role once they have been in touch. Your request will be reviewed and considered in confidence.
Informa TechTarget complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), as amended by the ADA Amendments Act, and all applicable federal, state or local law.
Our benefits include:
Great community : a welcoming culture with in-person and online social events, our fantastic Walk the World charity day and active colleague groups and networks promoting a positive, supportive, and collaborative work environment
Broader impact : take up to four days per year to volunteer with a philanthropic organization
Career opportunity : the opportunity to develop your career with bespoke training and learning, mentoring platforms and on-demand access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn Learning. When it’s time for the next step, we encourage and support internal job moves
Time out : Open Vacation, plus 10 national holidays, and the chance to work from (almost!) anywhere for up to four weeks a year
Competitive benefits, including a 401k match, health, vision and dental insurance, parental leave and an ESPP offering company shares at a minimum 15% discount
Strong wellbeing support through EAP assistance, mental health first aiders, free access to a wellness app and more
Recognition for great work, with global awards and kudos programs
As an international company, the chance to collaborate with teams around the world
Salary band: $175,000 - $200,000 based on Experience
This posting will automatically expire on September 29th 2026.
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