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Xabier M.XM

Xabier M.

Senior AI Architect · AI Security & Agentic System

€960/day
Bilbao, ES
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Xabier

I am a Senior AI Architect focused on designing and governing large-scale AI systems in regulated environments.

I architect secure production AI and agentic systems where security, governance, and assurance are first-class architectural requirements. I work as design authority across LLM gateways, RAG pipelines, AI platforms, Agentic systems and control planes, covering secure reference architecture, IAM boundaries, runtime controls, threat modeling, evaluation gates, release controls and audit-ready evidence from day one.

I operate as an architecture and assurance lead, setting the technical direction, standards, and control gates that make delivery scalable and defensible. Implementation is then delivered by internal teams or partners under this model.

My experience spans energy, industrial, banking, insurance, and healthcare environments, with enterprise-scale deployments on Azure and AWS, including GenAI platforms, RAG pipelines, and agent-based systems. I specialize in Day-2 AI architecture: cost control, quality evaluation, traceability, security, and regulatory alignment (EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001, NIST / OWASP LLM).

My focus is clarity, correctness, and building AI systems that remain operable once the initial excitement fades.

Enterprise AI Architect, GenAI Architect, AI Governance, AI Architecture, GenAI Platform, RAG, AI Control Plane, Responsible AI, AI Risk & Compliance, EU AI Act, ISO 42001, Technical Assurance, Design Authority, Azure AI, AWS Bedrock
  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • Spanish

    Native or bilingual

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • Energy Utility - Confidential
    Global Head of AI & Data (Architecture & Technical Governance)
    May 2024 - Today (2 years and 1 month)
    • •Scope: Azure/AWS multi-cloud | regulated, multi-country environment | 100M+ end customers.
    • • Delivered €XXM/year in value (new value + efficiencies) by industrializing GenAI adoption across Azure &
    AWS, moving 60+ use cases into production via platform patterns and architecture governance adopted as the enterprise baseline.
    • • Reduced platform provisioning and enablement lead time from 8 weeks to <2 weeks by standardizing
    CI/CD and ML/LLM platform foundations (MLflow conventions, delivery templates, feature store building blocks).
    • • Cut team onboarding time by 70% by standardizing reference architectures, templates, and execution patterns
    across teams and vendors.
    • • Lowered cloud costs by 22% by enforcing FinOps controls and standard resource patterns (cost attribution, quotas/rate limits, and consumption guardrails) across AI workloads.
    • • Achieved ISO/IEC 42001 audit readiness (externally validated) by engineering Responsible AI governance as platform foundations (policy-as-code, evaluation gates, traceability, evidence-by-design) aligned with EU AI Act.
    • • Tech stack: Azure, AWS, Databricks, MLflow, vector search patterns, Terraform, Python.
    AI Architecture Generative AI AI Governance Information Security (GenAI) Agentic AI
  • Energy Utility - Confidential
    Global Cloud & AI Architect (Generative AI)
    ENERGY AND UTILITIES
    April 2023 - May 2024 (1 year and 1 month)
    • • Enabled 2,000+ internal users and 100+ initiatives by architecting and delivering a group-wide GenAI
    platform MVP (vector search, prompt library patterns, CI/CD), reducing enablement time from months to weeks.
    • • Reduced platform fragmentation by standardizing RAG delivery via enterprise standards (retrieval contracts, evaluation, telemetry) embedded into reference architectures and delivery patterns.
  • Energy Utility - Confidential
    Global Head of Technology — Smart Solutions
    ENERGY AND UTILITIES
    November 2018 - April 2023 (4 years and 5 months)
    • • Shortened sales-to-installation cycle time by 35% by leading systems architecture and AI-enabled automation patterns for smart home, solar, and EV charging platforms serving 6M customers.

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Education

  • MSc in Artificial Intelligence
    International University of La Rioja (UNIR)
    2024
    MSc in Artificial Intelligence
  • Executive MSc in Business
    EOI Business School
    2013
    Executive MSc in Business

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