[Hiring] AI Workflow Architect @Malvern Panalytical

Role Description

Are you ready to shape the future of enterprise automation? As an AI Workflow Architect, you will own the end-to-end design of agentic AI workflows that automate critical commercial and after-sales processes. In this role, you will translate complex business workflows into orchestrated, governed multi-agent systems built on the Microsoft AI stack. Your designs will prioritize human-in-the-loop controls, cost efficiency, and enterprise-grade scalability right from the start.

• Agentic Architecture: Design advanced agentic workflow architectures, including agent orchestration, tool utilization, memory/context handling, and human-in-the-loop approval patterns for commercial and after-sales use cases.
• Reference Standards: Define and maintain reference architectures and design standards across the Microsoft AI stack (Copilot Studio, Power Automate, Dataverse, Azure AI Foundry / Azure OpenAI, Power BI, Microsoft Fabric).
• Risk & Control Optimization: Design optimized human-in-the-loop workflows, ensuring approval, escalation, and exception-handling patterns strike the perfect balance between high automation rates and commercial risk management.
• Cost Management: Own AI cost optimization across the agent estate by managing model selection and routing, context retention, caching, and token budgeting.
• Enterprise Deployment: Plan and manage enterprise-level agent deployments and rollouts across multiple languages, countries, and departments, including phased autonomy expansion.
• System Integration: Specify secure integrations between AI agents and core enterprise systems (Salesforce, SAP, service management platforms) via secure in-perimeter APIs.
• Governance & Compliance: Partner with Enterprise Architecture and Governance teams to meet rigorous security, compliance, auditability, and responsible-AI requirements.
• Innovation: Evaluate emerging agent frameworks and orchestration tooling to drive strategic build, buy, or configure decisions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software/solution architecture, with at least 3+ years of hands-on experience designing agentic or LLM-based systems in production.
• Expert-level, hands-on experience with the Microsoft AI stack.
• Proven experience managing multi-language, multi-country enterprise rollouts.

Requirements

• Deep understanding of agent orchestration, tool calling, prompt/tool design, and human-in-the-loop workflow design.
• Knowledge of AI cost optimization (model routing, context, and token management at scale).
• Strong integration skills using REST APIs, connectors, and enterprise platforms (Salesforce, SAP, Microsoft Graph).
• Familiarity with security, compliance, and responsible-AI governance in regulated enterprise environments.
• Structured documentation skills and excellent communication; ability to explain complex architectural trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.

Benefits

• Inspire Your People: Communicate an exciting vision, simplify complexity, and plan for the long-term interest of the business. Bring positive energy, drive, and ambition, while remaining respectful, inclusive, and learning from setbacks.
• Strengthen Your Team: Set a high bar for excellence and hold teams accountable. Collaborate across departments, champion internal talent, and foster a growth mindset through active coaching and feedback.
• Grow Your Business: Drive strategic execution and deliver results based on sound decision-making. Put customers at the heart of everything you do, improve processes proactively, and advocate for the Spectris Business Systems.

Company Description

Malvern Panalytical, Micromeritics, and SciAps are committed to a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can thrive and achieve a fulfilling career. Together we are a powerful and highly complementary combination of market-leading technologies. We are the toolmakers for the world's most innovative companies, academic institutions, and government laboratories. We are their partners in discovery.

• Malvern Panalytical instruments analyze the chemical, physical and structural nature of materials, from proteins to polymers and semiconductors to minerals.
• Micromeritics manufactures systems for the characterization of particles, powders, and porous materials for a wide range of end markets including catalysts, chemicals, building materials, clean-tech, and battery.
• SciAps specializes in portable X-ray fluorescence (XRF), laser-based (LIBS), and near-infrared (NIR) analyzers to measure any element in any environment.
• We have a global footprint with R&D and manufacturing sites in North America, Europe, and Asia.
• We are more than 2,500 employees in a customer-focused organization with sales and service offices in 20 countries, all committed to delivering expert and responsive customer support.
• We are part of Spectris, which combines precision with purpose, delivering progress for a more sustainable world.