Lead AI Software Engineer

About the Role Becrypt is creating a new, standalone Principal Architect – AI role to lead the organisation’s approach to artificial intelligence across the business. This is a senior technical position for someone who can look across engineering, product, IT and operations to identify where AI can genuinely improve how Becrypt builds, secures and runs its platforms — and who can then design, build and govern the systems that make that possible. This is not a team-management role. It is a hands-on, principal-level individual contributor position for someone who leads through technical depth, credibility and influence — working closely with engineering teams, technical architects and internal IT, and setting the policies, risk frameworks and compliance guardrails needed to adopt AI responsibly. What You’ll Do Strategic & cross-business Assess processes and systems across the business — engineering, product, customer-facing operations, internal IT — to identify where AI can add genuine value, streamline work, or reduce risk. Act as the go-to technical authority on AI across Becrypt, working directly with engineering teams, technical architects and internal IT rather than through a reporting chain. Develop and own AI-related policy, governance, risk assessment and compliance frameworks, balancing confidentiality, integrity, availability, usability, customer requirements, engineering effort and operational risk. Advise leadership on AI strategy, opportunity areas and risk…