Full-Time

Lead Architect

AI Native

Updated on 9/11/2026

PALO IT

PALO IT

501-1,000 employees

AI-first consultancy accelerating digital product delivery

No salary listed

Île-de-France, France

Hybrid

Remote work depends on the project; in-person work may occur at client sites or the Paris office, and some assignments may be fully on-site.

Category
Software Engineering
Required Skills
LLM
Microsoft Azure
Python
React.js
Machine Learning
Java
OpenAI
Docker
.NET
AWS
LangChain
DevOps
Angular
Google Cloud Platform

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Requirements
  • At least 6 years of experience in software architecture, software development, and artificial intelligence, with hands-on technical capability.
  • Strong expertise in designing and scaling cloud-native applications or AI-first architectures.
  • Advanced knowledge of continuous integration and continuous delivery processes, cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure, containerization technologies, and DevSecOps practices.
  • Familiarity with user-experience-as-code approaches and design-system thinking.
  • Ability to support and mentor diverse teams in developing and implementing technical solutions.
  • Fluent English and the ability to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Understanding of prompt-engineering principles for effective interaction with artificial-intelligence tools.
  • Strong knowledge of artificial-intelligence and machine-learning technologies, including the OpenAI application programming interface, LangChain, Hugging Face, and context engineering.
  • Critical and analytical thinking to validate and verify artificial-intelligence-generated code and solutions.
  • Commitment to continuous learning and staying informed about the rapidly evolving artificial-intelligence landscape.
  • Sensitivity to social, environmental, and responsible-technology issues and the ability to integrate them into delivered solutions.
Responsibilities
  • Define service scopes and reference architectures aligned with service-level objectives, security policies, and cost-optimization goals.
  • Lead the functional and technical engineering context within the product repository, ensuring transparency and quality through automated pull-request templates and documentation standards.
  • Conduct risk and threat analyses, balancing performance, privacy, sustainability, and security.
  • Design and implement safeguards in continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines, such as sensitive-data anonymization, license verification, and compliance gates, to ensure enterprise-grade quality.
  • Continuously improve key indicators related to energy efficiency, cloud costs, and system accessibility.
  • Facilitate collaboration with technical sponsors and product teams as the technical subject-matter expert.
  • Participate in pitch, proof-of-concept, ecosystem-development, and artifact-development phases.
  • Mentor and guide development teams, fostering a culture of learning and continuous improvement while ensuring technical development delivery.
  • Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback and improvement suggestions.
  • Monitor industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices, and evaluate their potential impact on business operations and team performance.
Desired Qualifications
  • Sharing technical knowledge, commitment, and enthusiasm through conferences or software-development and Software Craftsmanship communities.
  • Participation in one or more open-source projects as a contributor.
  • Passion for sustainable software design, modern social challenges, human-centered innovation, and sustainable development.
  • Engagement in associations or meetups focused on people and the environment.

Palo IT is a global AI-first technology consultancy that accelerates the delivery of digital products and modernizes platforms through a trademarked engineering approach. It combines AI-powered methods with proven engineering practices to help clients ship software faster and more reliably. Palo IT differentiates itself by its ethical focus and credibility, being a World Economic Forum New Champion and a B Corp-certified organization, which reflect its commitment to responsible business practices. The company aims to help organizations transform their technology stacks and digital products in a way that balances speed, quality, and sustainability.

Company Size

501-1,000

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Paris, France

Founded

2009

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What believers are saying

  • Singapore Airlines partnered with PALO IT in June 2025 on generative AI development.
  • PALO IT's CIX platform launched a scalable spot trading exchange with 34 verified projects.
  • New Singapore managing director Eugene Yang signals deeper Southeast Asia expansion and local sales execution.

What critics are saying

  • Headcount fell to 634 by March 2026, down 32.7% from 2023.
  • Singapore Airlines and CIX wins depend on client concentration, exposing revenue to procurement pauses.
  • Generative AI commoditizes software consulting, squeezing PALO IT's margins before 2027.

What makes PALO IT unique

  • B Corp PALO IT brands itself as “Tech for Good” across nine countries.
  • Xavier Rizos, appointed in 2023, anchors strategy around sustainability and resilient digital transformation.
  • CIX Exchange proves PALO IT ships regulated marketplace infrastructure for Singapore financial institutions.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Remote Work Options

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Flexible Work Hours

Hybrid Work Options

Confidential

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Palo IT partnered with Climate Impact X (CIX) – Singapore-based marketplace and exchange for trusted carbon credits – to launch its spot exchange trading platform.