Principal Enterprise Architect

**Principal Enterprise Architect - AI**:

- Job Req ID: 50507
- Posting Date: 8 Sept 2025
- Function: Architecture Solution and Design
- Unit: Digital
- Location: RMZ Ecoworld, Devarabeesanahal, Bengaluru, India
- Salary: Competitive

**Why this job matters**:
BT is going through a major transformation - with data and AI at the heart. We’re simplifying our products, transforming our customer journeys, modernising our IT and networks and decommissioning legacy platforms.
As part of this ambition, it is essential that we take advantage of the latest technological advances in AI to deliver for the business while ensuring we adhere to security and privacy concerns. This job is vital in delivering on our ambition by automating processes and freeing resources to focus on value add activity.
The Principal AI Enterprise Architect will lead strategic initiatives and architectural governance in the AI domain, ensuring alignment with BT’s enterprise architecture and business goals.

**What you’ll be doing**:

- Working with the Data Science and Strategy teams to define the AI architecture strategy and blueprints.
- Operating as an expert in AI to set the technical direction and provide advice and guidance to engineers, ensuring that solutions are developed in line with the strategy.
- Create AI roadmaps that support the BT Group strategy and drive business outcomes.
- Evaluate and select AI frameworks, tools, and platforms.
- Define and evolve BT’s strategic AI architecture across all units.
- Establish standards, policies and procedures as needed to ensure consistency and compliance within a governance framework.
- Ensure ethical AI practices and compliance with regulatory standards.
- Collaborate with data scientists and engineers to operationalize AI models.
- Establish a community of interest in AI and ML to increase education and awareness.

**Skills and Experience**:
**The skills you will need to succeed**
- Deep understanding of AI/ML frameworks and their strengths and weaknesses.
- Understanding of model governance, bias mitigation, and explain ability.
- Forward-thinking attitude, constantly innovating and keeping up to date with the latest trends in AI.
- Expertise in enterprise data architecture and data governance frameworks.
- Strong leadership and communication skills and the ability to influence senior stakeholders.

**Experience you would be expected to have**
- Overall 8 plus years of experience with a minimum of 3 years’ experience in AI/ML, with a focus on Gen AI.
- Experience in deploying AI solutions at scale to deliver on business outcomes.
- An understanding of AI Ethics Polices and compliance.
- Experience in software engineering best practices such as code reviews, testing frameworks, maintainability and readability
- Strong experience with data engineering technologies.
- Experience of navigating large, complex, organisational structures and challenging the status quo.

**Our leadership standards**:
**Looking in**:
**Leading inclusively and Safely**
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
**Owning outcomes**
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.

**Looking out**:
**Delivering for the customer**
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
**Commercially savvy**
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.

**Looking to the future**:
**Growth mindset**
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
**Building for the future**
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.

**About us**

BT Group was the world’s first telco and our heritage in the sector is unrivalled. As home to several of the UK’s most recognised and cherished brands - BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet, we have always played a critical role in creating the future, and we have reached an inflection point in the transformation of our business.

Over the next two years, we will complete the UK’s largest and most successful digital infrastructure project - connecting more than 25 million premises to full fibre broadband. Together with our heavy investment in 5G, we play a central role in revolutionising how people connect with each other.

Change on the scale we will all experience in the coming years is unprecedented. BT Group is committed to being the driving force behind improving connectivity for millions and there has never been a more exciting time to join a company and leadership team with the skills, experience, creativity, and passion to take this company into a new era.

**A FEW POINTS TO NOTE**:
Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.

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