AI Native - Lead ArchitectPalo IT · PALO IT France

AI Native - Lead Architect

🗓️ Posted 2026-09-04 PALO IT France Fulltime Hybrid ICT
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market NA

About the Company

PALO IT is a global technology consultancy with a trademarked, AI-first approach, Gen-e2 . It redefines how enterprises build digital products and transform their organizations with AI. They are a World Economic Forum New Champion and a B Corp-certified company, operating in 10 countries with over 450 experts from 50+ nationalities. They are robust, resilient, 100% independent, and debt-free, founded in 2009, and are becoming an agentic organization that invests in what they believe and works as a collective intelligence.

About the Role

This role involves leading high-impact, AI-driven engineering initiatives from discovery to delivery. As a key team member, you will be responsible for technical excellence, team skills development, and client success, ensuring every project is aligned with the Gen-e² speed-to-impact model. You will use cutting-edge AI tools to accelerate development cycles and drive innovation. The role is based in Paris and is remote-friendly depending on the project.

Responsibilities

  • ● Define service scopes and reference architectures, aligned with SLOs, security policies, and cost-optimization goals.
  • ● Drive engineering context (functional and technical) within the product repository, ensuring transparency and quality through automated PR templates and adherence to documentation standards.
  • ● Conduct risk and threat analyses, balancing performance, privacy, sustainability, and security.
  • ● Design and implement guardrails in CI/CD pipelines (e.g., anonymization of sensitive data, license verification, compliance gates) to guarantee enterprise-grade quality.
  • ● Continuously improve key metrics related to energy efficiency, cloud costs, and system accessibility.
  • ● Facilitate collaboration with technical sponsors and product teams as a go-to technical expert.
  • ● Take part in pitch phases, proofs of concept, and the development of the ecosystem and its artifacts.
  • ● Mentor and guide development teams, fostering a culture of learning and continuous improvement across the organization while ensuring delivery of technical development.
  • ● Take part in code reviews, providing constructive feedback and improvement suggestions.
  • ● Stay informed on industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices, and assess their potential impact on business operations and team performance.

Requirements

  • ● At least 10 years of experience in software architecture and development (Java, .NET, Python, React, Angular...) and AI, with a strong technical appetite and the ability to be hands-on.
  • ● Experienced software architect and Tech Lead, recognized for your ability to embed AI-First methods into robust, scalable technical solutions.
  • ● Strong expertise in designing and scaling cloud-native applications or AI-First architectures.
  • ● Deep command of CI/CD processes, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), containerization technologies, and DevSecOps practices.
  • ● Hands-on practice with generative AI (GitHub Copilot, OpenAI API, LangChain, Hugging Face).