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This role is pivotal in driving the adoption and implementation of Gen AI solutions within ER&I.\nGenerative AI is transforming ER&I, offering unprecedented opportunities for optimization, enhanced decision-making, and new revenue streams. A robust Gen AI strategy is crucial for realizing this potential and gaining a competitive advantage. Our team delivers cutting-edge Gen AI solutions enabling ER&I clients to thrive.\nER&I organizations are adopting innovative approaches to model building, customization, and data management, including transfer learning and robust data governance. A well-designed Gen AI platform is at the heart of our clients' GenAI CoE strategy. The Associate Director, Gen AI Architect role is crucial to shaping and executing this vision.\nOur AI & Data team specializes in implementing Gen AI solutions that drive tangible value for ER&I clients by:\nIdentifying Gen AI opportunities aligned with client strategy.\nGathering detailed requirements.\nDesigning scalable Gen AI platforms & architectures.\nJoin Deloitte for exceptional training, growth, and a dynamic team environment. We encourage flexible working arrangements. If this opportunity interests you, please discuss it with us.\nConnect to your career at Deloitte\nDeloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.\nWhat brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact.These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.\nConnect to your opportunity\nYou will head the architecting and design of innovative Gen AI solutions for our clients in the ER&I sector, driving transformational impact and creating significant business value. Collaborating with other architects, data scientists, and client teams, you will define end-to-end Gen AI architectures that seamlessly integrate with existing systems and enable a wide range of AI-powered capabilities.\nWhether it's designing cutting-edge Gen AI solutions, defining the requirements for AI-driven ecosystems, or managing the delivery of Gen AI projects, we need exceptional people to join us and further strengthen our team.\nAs an Associate Director, Gen AI Architect, you will be an exceptional communicator, staying ahead of the curve in this rapidly evolving technology landscape. You will be able to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring clear understanding and alignment. You will possess a strong ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment, leveraging the diverse strengths of your colleagues to achieve common objectives. You will be outcome-focused, with a pragmatic approach to designing and delivering high-quality Gen AI solutions that meet and exceed client expectations.\nResponsibilities include:\nDesigning Gen AI Architectures: Define end-to-end Gen AI architectures aligned with client business objectives and technology strategies.\nAdvising on Gen AI Applications: Guide ER&I clients on leveraging Gen AI to address their challenges and objectives.\nEstablishing Common AI Language: Foster executive-level discussions to establish a common understanding of AI/Gen AI terminology.\nCreating Gen AI Roadmaps: Develop strategic roadmaps for Gen AI capabilities to generate value from data and AI.\nAssessing Systems & Proposing Solutions: Evaluate existing systems and recommend target Gen AI architectures using AI technologies and cloud platforms.\nLeading & Mentoring Teams: Lead diverse global teams, fostering an inclusive and valued team culture.\nManaging Stakeholders & Change: Support change management processes to ensure successful Gen AI adoption.\nDeveloping Market Offerings: Assist in developing market-leading Gen AI solutions and proposals.\nContributing to AI Community: Contribute to the development and growth of our AI and Data Architecture community.\nDriving Project Delivery: Drive client project delivery by owning workstreams and ensuring successful engagements.\nDeveloping Team Members: Develop junior team members through on-the-job training.\nConnect to your skills and professional experience\nEssential\nConsulting or ER&I Experience: Client-facing project experience in consulting or direct ER&I industry roles. Proven contribution to proposals, presentations, pre-sales, and opportunity development. \nER&I Industry Domain Knowledge: In-depth expertise in ER&I functional areas (Engineering, Operations, Sustainability, Regulatory Compliance, etc.). \nDeep GenAI Architecture Expertise: Extensive technical architecture experience in GenAI, AI, or Enterprise Architecture, ideally within consulting or industry. \nStrong Problem-Solving & Analytical Skills: Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills applied to complex GenAI challenges. \nExecutive Stakeholder Management: Strong executive-level stakeholder management and communication skills; ability to build robust client relationships. \nLeadership & Team Development: Proven leadership in building and developing high-performing, diverse GenAI architecture teams, nurturing junior talent. \nDesigning & Implementing Complex GenAI Solutions: Excellent understanding and experience designing and implementing complex GenAI solutions, including several of the following areas:GenAI model integration & deployment. \nPrompt engineering & model customization. \nAI/GenAI governance & ethics (bias detection, explainability). \nGenAI Platform & Infrastructure Architecture (Cloud, Lakehouse). \nGenAI ModelOps & Performance Monitoring. \nAI-driven business intelligence & reporting. \nObservability & FinOps for AI/GenAI. \nCloud Infrastructure, Networking, & Security for AI.\n\nAligning GenAI Architectures Across Organizations: Experience aligning GenAI architecture blueprints across business units and geographies with peers and senior architects. \nPresenting GenAI Architectural Designs: Experience presenting GenAI architectural designs to diverse stakeholders, including technical authorities and architecture boards. \nArchitectural Evaluation of GenAI Systems: Experience evaluating, designing, and analysing enterprise-wide systems incorporating GenAI, both on-premise and cloud-based. \nDefining Business Outcomes for GenAI Programs: Experience engaging with business and IT stakeholders to document business outcomes and objectives for large-scale GenAI solutions and programs. \nTechnology & Platform Recommendations for GenAI: Ability to identify requirements, analyse technology alternatives, and recommend build vs. buy for GenAI platforms and solutions. \nFacilitating GenAI Discovery & Design Workshops: Proven ability to conduct effective discovery and design workshops focused on GenAI solutions. \nRapid Learning & Application of GenAI: Demonstrates ability to quickly learn and apply new GenAI techniques and knowledge to achieve business outcomes. \nLeading Resilient GenAI Project Teams: Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams in fast-paced GenAI projects; demonstrates personal resilience. \nGo-to-Market & Proposal Development for GenAI: Ability to lead go-to-market activities, including RFI/RFP responses and developing high-quality GenAI-focused proposals. \n\nDesirable\nGenAI Design Leadership: Led technical design authorities for strategic GenAI adoption.\nStrategic GenAI Platform Selection: Strategic GenAI platform/tool evaluation & selection skills.\nLeading GenAI Trends: Up-to-date on emerging GenAI technologies & standards.\nAI Regulatory Landscape (ER&I): Understands AI regulations; ensures project compliance.\nCloud & Advanced LLM Architectures: Cloud expertise (AWS/Azure/GCP); emerging LLM architectures.\nGenAI Frameworks & Platforms: Proficient with Data & AI platforms (Azure AI, Vertex AI, Databricks, Hugging Face), advanced GenAI frameworks (LangChain, HF Transformers, LlamaIndex) & Agentic architectures (LangGraph, SmolAgents, PydanticAI) \nPrompt Engineering: Deep prompt engineering & optimization skills for GenAI.\nVector DBs & RAG: Designed solutions using vector DBs & Retrieval Augmented GenAI (RAG) for knowledge applications.\nGenAI ModelOps/MLOps & Governance: GenAI ModelOps/MLOps knowledge with ethical AI governance focus.\nMultimodal & Code Generation: Architected GenAI for multimodal (vision, audio, language) & code generation.\nER&I GenAI Applications: Applied GenAI to ER&I use cases to create business value.\nEnterprise Software Integration: Designed GenAI integrations with SaaS/ERP for business process automation.\nGenAI Impact Reporting: Designed advanced reporting for measuring GenAI impact and actionable insights.\nStrategic Project Sizing: Proven strategic project sizing/shaping for large Gen AI programs in ER&I.\nGlobal Team Leadership: Managed global/offshore teams effectively for Gen AI projects.\nAgile Delivery & Client Engagement: Agile project management expertise for rapid GenAI solution delivery; led client workshops.\nConnect to your business - Technology and Transformation\nDistinctive thinking, deep expertise, innovation and collaborative working. That’s what connects us. That’s what makes us Deloitte. If you want to help solve some of the biggest tech and transformational challenges around, join us. Together, we’ll make an impact that matters.\nEngineering, AI and Data\nWe lead transformation at the heart of our clients; re-engineering the core of our clients’ organisations, helping to unleash growth, and creating better futures for their customers, citizens and employees.\nPersonal independence\nRegulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). 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