Applied AI Architect, Public Sector at Anthropic

On-site - London, UK

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The Applied AI Architect, Public Sector role at Anthropic focuses on pre‑sales architecture, advising UK and Northern European public sector clients on deploying Claude AI solutions. The position involves collaborating with sales, product, engineering, and partnerships teams to translate customer needs into scalable, compliant architectures while maintaining high safety and reliability standards.

Salary

From GBP 165,000

Requirements

Skills

  • Prior experience working with UK public sector organisations—particularly UK Central Government departments, executive agencies, or arm’s length bodies
  • Active UK Security Check (SC) clearance, with willingness and eligibility to be put forward for higher levels of clearance (e.g. DV)
  • 5+ years of experience in technical customer-facing roles such as Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, or Technical Account Manager
  • Experience navigating complex public sector buying cycles involving multiple stakeholders—commercial teams, digital and technology leadership, policy owners, and SROs
  • Familiarity with UK public procurement routes and frameworks (e.g. G-Cloud, AI Dynamic Purchasing System, Digital Outcomes, Crown Commercial Service agreements) and experience with systems integrators and delivery partners within these frameworks
  • Exceptional ability to build relationships with and communicate technical concepts to diverse stakeholders, including senior civil servants, C‑suite executives, engineering, and IT teams
  • Strong technical communication skills with the ability to translate customer requirements between technical and business stakeholders
  • Experience designing scalable cloud architectures and integrating with enterprise systems
  • Comfortable with Python
  • Familiarity with common LLM frameworks and tools, or a background in machine learning or data science
  • Excitement for engaging in cross‑organisational collaboration, working through trade‑offs, and balancing competing priorities
  • A love of teaching, mentoring, and helping others succeed
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, able to convey complicated topics in easily understandable terms to a diverse set of external and internal stakeholders
  • Passion for thinking creatively about how to use technology in a way that is safe and beneficial

Responsibilities

  • Partner with account executives to deeply understand customer requirements and translate them into technical solutions, ensuring alignment between departmental outcomes, policy objectives, and technical implementation
  • Serve as the primary technical advisor to public sector customers throughout their Claude adoption journey, from discovery to initial evaluation through deployment, coordinating internally across multiple teams and stakeholders to drive customer success
  • Support customers building with Claude Code, the Claude API, and Claude for Enterprise
  • Create and deliver compelling technical content tailored to different audiences, spanning from technical deep dives for engineering and delivery teams to business‑value conversations with senior civil servants and C‑suite executives
  • Support defence and national security engagements, including with the MOD and intelligence agencies, designing solutions that work within security, classification, and accreditation constraints
  • Guide technical architecture decisions and help customers integrate Claude effectively into their existing technology stack, aligning with NCSC guidelines, Cyber Essentials Plus, Government Security Classifications framework, Technology Code of Practice, and Service Standard
  • Help customers develop evaluation frameworks to measure Claude’s performance for their specific use cases
  • Identify common integration patterns across the UK public sector and contribute insights back to Product and Engineering teams
  • Travel frequently to customer sites across the UK (and occasionally Northern Europe) for workshops, technical deep dives, and relationship building
  • Maintain strong knowledge of the latest developments in LLM capabilities and implementation patterns

Technologies

ClaudeClaude APIClaude CodePythonCloud architectureEnterprise systems integration

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