Principal AI Platform Architect d/f/m

RWE AG
To start as soon as possible, full time / part time, permanent

As Principal Artificial Intelligence (AI) Platform Architect, you will drive key company-wide topics in the area of Data & AI Architecture. With your technical expertise, you will shape and implement innovative data and AI solutions to actively accelerate the energy transition at RWE. 

In this significant position, you will set crucial impulses for the technological advancement and implementation of AI and data architectures and work closely with various teams across the company. Together with your technical skills and your previous experience from comparable transformations, we will increase operational excellence, improve productivity, and ensure the long-term competitiveness of RWE.

About the role 

• Drive the development of a robust, future-ready Group-wide Data & AI Platform and shape its technical roadmap together with the Enterprise Architecture Team.
• Translate business needs into scalable AI platform capabilities.
• Taking on subject matter leadership for Data & AI Architecture at the enterprise level and embedding key initiatives throughout the business units.
• Design agentic AI solutions for complex workflows and processes, integrating agent ecosystems across diverse platforms and frameworks.
• Develop and maintain solution architecture documentation, ensuring compliance with the EU AI act.
• Effectively present complex Data & AI architectures, tailored to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Job requirements and experience

• Master's degree in IT or related field.
• Platform Architecture: Proven experience in designing, building, and deploying enterprise-scale Data & AI platforms and transformations, with hands-on knowledge of MLOps/LLMOps toolchains and automation.
• Multi-Agent Systems: Expertise in agent orchestration frameworks, modular agent design, multi-workflow integration, and robust guardrails for LLM and agent reliability.
• Proficiency in agent communication protocols and cross-platform integration.
• Proven track record of subject matter leadership and successful delivery of IT projects within complex corporate structures.
• Strong stakeholder communication, expectation management, and teamwork abilities.
• Excellent English skills, as well as agile and hybrid project management experience.

Advantageous, but not essential

• Knowledge of the energy business as well as experience with embodied AI, robotics, or industrial IoT platforms, and internal community building around AI and agent platforms.
• Fluency in German.

RWE is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment – we value your passion, your willingness to learn and your desire to thrive. So, if you don’t display all the skills above but think this is the job for you, need flexible working arrangements or adjustments which aren’t outlined already, we would still like to hear from you.

Your Benefits

• Independent work on exciting and responsible tasks.
• Close collaboration in a motivated team with an open feedback culture that promotes your personal and professional development.
• Insights into a global energy company.
• Hybrid working and flexible working time models.
• Free access to the Health Center, modern open workspaces, free parking, e-charging stations and much more.
• Structured and digitized pre- and onboarding process supported by the web-based app RWE+You.

Apply with just a few clicks: ad code 91692, application period: 12.02.2026
Any questions? Contact HR: HR Service Core, Recruiting Team, +49 201 5179-9050

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We value diversity and therefore welcome all applications - regardless of gender, disability, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion/belief, age, sexual orientation, and identity. #inclusionmatters

For over 125 years, RWE has been reliably supplying electricity. Our team of around 20,000 people is shaping the energy world of tomorrow. Today, RWE is one of the world's leading renewable energy companies. With our growth strategy we are setting the pace and investing billions of euros every year – above all in the expansion of offshore and onshore wind, solar energy and battery storage. Our diverse portfolio is perfectly complemented by our global energy trading business. With our mix of renewable and flexible generation, as well as a broad pipeline of new-build projects across all technologies and core markets, we are well positioned to meet the growing global energy demand, especially as electrification and artificial intelligence gain momentum. At the same time, we are contributing to the decarbonisation of the energy system. The reduction of our carbon emissions is in line with the 1.5°C climate goal of the Paris Agreement, and we are phasing out coal responsibly by 2030. By 2040, RWE aims to achieve net-zero, fully embracing our purpose ‘Our energy for a sustainable life’.