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You will work closely with the product and analyst team, to deeply understand the business gap/ opportunity, user profile and technology landscape, and act as the single point of design authority on the production solution design. You will ensure all technical designs create a coherent, scalable, integrated compelling solution, and you will work closely with the Product Leadership to balance technical and solution trade-offs and priorities.\nYou will lead the design of end-to-end integration-first AI solutions, with a strong focus on connecting AI-enabled products, cloud services, and data platforms. 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contribute to reusable accelerators, templates, and an internal knowledge base.\n\nProvide technical oversight across multiple client engagements, ensuring architectural consistency, delivery quality, and alignment between business requirements and implemented solutions.\n\nProvide hands-on guidance to engineering and data teams on API integrations, data pipelines, and AI service connectivity, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and maintainable.\n\nStay current on emerging AI platforms, LLM tooling, and cloud-based data services, continuously evaluating how they can enhance our integration capabilities.\n\nRequired Qualifications\n8+ years in solution architecture, data engineering, or software engineering roles; 3+ years architecting AI/ML solutions in production.\n\nProven experience designing modern, cloud-native AI solutions and integrations across AWS, Azure, or GCP, including data platform integration, LLM orchestration, and secure API connectivity.\n\nHands-on experience with at least two of the following:\n\nDeep-learning frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, JAX).\n\nNLP/LLM stacks (Hugging Face, LangChain, vector databases, RAG patterns).\n\nComputer-vision pipelines (OpenCV, TorchVision).\n\nAutoML & orchestration (Vertex AI, SageMaker, MLflow, Kubeflow, Airflow).\n\nSolid grounding in data modeling, API design (REST/GraphQL), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi).\n\nExceptional communication skills-able to whiteboard with engineers in the morning and brief the C-suite in the afternoon.\n\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).\n\nConsulting or professional-services experience\n\nBonus Skills\nFamiliarity with privacy regulations (GDPR/CCPA) and AI governance frameworks (NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001 draft).\n\nTrack record leading GenAI POCs or production deployments (chatbots, copilots, content generation, autonomous agents).\n\nRelevant certifications (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Google Professional Cloud Architect, Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect, TensorFlow Developer).\n\nCore Competencies\nArchitectural Systems Thinking - Visualizes complex interactions across data, application, and infrastructure layers.\n\nAI/ML Depth & Breadth - Stays current on techniques, tooling, and responsible-AI best practices.\n\nClient Influence - Builds trust quickly; 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