SECAI Core · phase 9 of 15
AI architect
A role that outlines how AI components fit together within an organization, choosing patterns for data flows, model serving, and integration with existing systems
The Explain card
- Plain English
- An AI architect designs how AI components fit together within an organisation, choosing the patterns for data flows, model serving and integration with existing systems.
- Example
- Asked to add a document assistant to an internal portal, the AI architect decides that retrieval happens from an access-controlled index, that inference runs through the AI gateway, and that the model never receives raw credentials, only scoped tokens issued by the identity provider.
- Why it matters
- Most AI security failures are architectural: the wrong data reaching the wrong component. A security-minded architect bakes in isolation and least privilege before the first line of code.
- Hook
- Draws the blueprint, and decides where the walls go.
Where it sits in the deck
Phase 9: Roles, Teams, and Organisational Accountability
Governance frameworks are executed by people — introduce the human roles and organisational structures responsible for building, operating, and auditing AI systems.
