Innovation Architect

Company Description

Talan is an international consulting and technology expertise group that supports and accelerates the digital transformation of its clients through the levers of technology, data, and innovation.

For over 20 years, Talan has been advising and supporting companies and public institutions in defining and implementing their transformation and innovation projects in Switzerland and internationally.

Present on 5 continents in 21 countries, the Group, certified Great Place To Work, has more than 7,000 employees.

Equipped with a Research and Innovation Center, Talan places innovation at the heart of its development and operates in areas of technological change such as Artificial Intelligence, Data Intelligence, Blockchain, to serve the growth of large groups and mid-sized companies in a committed and responsible approach.

By placing "Positive Innovation" at the core of its strategy, Talan is convinced that it is by serving humans that technology amplifies its impact on society as a whole.

Job Description

Your missions

• Define and communicate the architecture vision for AI, applications, data, and security.
• Make key decisions at the tenant level: choice of tools, data residency, security posture.
• Develop and maintain an LLM playbook: model selection criteria, governance, cost and consumption tracking.
• Design reference blueprints for conversational AI (Copilot Studio), agent orchestration (MCP/A2A), and RAG pipelines.
• Standardize practices: prompts, grounding patterns, telemetry, and evaluation criteria (quality, security, performance).
• Translate business needs into complete solutions: integration, data contracts, deployment strategy.
• Support delivery teams (AI engineers, Power Platform, etc.) and ensure component reusability.
• Architect Power Platform Core: environments, DLP, connectors, ALM, identity, and access.
• Co-design the operational model of the Center of Excellence for citizen development.
• Implement AI safeguards: content filters, grounding policies, jailbreak mitigation, bias/equity checks.
• Define incident playbooks and integrate observability (tracing, feedback, monitoring).
• Mentor and promote a "framework-first" culture: documentation, reuse, quality.

Qualifications

• Architecture leadership: 5 to 7 years of experience in enterprise, solution, or AI architecture, with production deliveries.
• AI and ML expertise: Azure AI/OpenAI, Copilot Studio, RAG pipelines, vector stores, prompt engineering.
• Application architecture & integration: Azure Cloud, APIs, events, security.
• Power Platform & Citizen Development: governance, Dataverse, ALM, environment strategy.
• Responsible AI: implementation of controls (security, monitoring, red/blue teaming, bias/equity).
• Excellent communication: ability to influence and collaborate with product, engineering, security, and business teams.

Additional Information

Additional assets:

• Experience with agentic frameworks (BMAD), MCP/A2A integrations, human-in-the-loop workflows.
• Observability for LLM systems (feedback loops, telemetry).
• Relevant certifications (Azure Architect, Power Platform Architect).