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We are renowned for our technical excellence and leading innovations, and for making a difference to our clients and society. Our workplace embraces diversity and inclusion - it’s a place where you can grow, belong and thrive.\nJob Profile Summary\nThe Senior AI Solutions Architect is an advanced subject matter expert responsible for shaping, validating and assuring complex artificial intelligence solutions during the opportunity-to-order lifecycle.\nThe role operates as the primary technical and delivery interlock between regional go-to-market teams and the Global AI Delivery Unit. It enables sellers and regional solution teams to access AI delivery expertise without requiring core delivery resources to become extensively engaged in routine pre-sales activity.\nThe Senior AI Solutions Architect works with clients, sales teams, solution teams, commercial management, delivery leaders and specialist technical teams to translate business needs into secure, scalable, commercially viable and delivery-ready AI solutions.\nThe role contributes to, or leads, the development of solution architectures, prototypes and proofs of concept where required. It validates solution feasibility, delivery scope, resource requirements, effort estimates, commercial assumptions, delivery risks and contractual commitments before NTT DATA enters into a client agreement.\nAs part of the Global AI Delivery Unit, the role helps protect delivery outcomes and the AI Delivery P&L by ensuring that proposed solutions have an appropriate delivery structure, cost-recovery model, risk position and transition plan before customer signature.\n\nKey Responsibilities\nDeal intake and GTM interlock\nAct as the primary technical and delivery interlock for assigned AI opportunities from qualified intake through solution approval, contracting and handover to delivery.\nEngage with regional GTM, sales and solution teams early in the opportunity lifecycle to understand the client’s business problem, intended outcomes, technical environment, data landscape and commercial requirements.\nAssess whether the opportunity is sufficiently qualified for Global AI Delivery engagement and identify any additional information, discovery or customer validation required.\nReview use-case descriptions and business requirements to assess whether the proposed use of AI is appropriate, feasible and aligned with measurable client outcomes.\nSupport structured discovery sessions with clients and internal stakeholders, translating business requirements into actionable technical and delivery requirements.\nIdentify the specialist capabilities required to support the pursuit and coordinate targeted engagement from Global AI Delivery Unit, security, legal, commercial and regional delivery teams.\nManage the involvement of delivery specialists carefully, ensuring that delivery expertise is used for material design decisions and specialist validation without drawing delivery teams unnecessarily into general pre-sales activity.\nMaintain clear communication with opportunity owners regarding solution status, outstanding decisions, risks, dependencies and readiness for assurance.\nAI solution architecture and design\nShape or own the end-to-end architecture of AI solutions across application, model, data, integration, infrastructure and security domains.\nEvaluate architecture options and select appropriate AI models, cloud services, orchestration frameworks and third-party technologies, balancing cost, performance, scalability, security and delivery complexity.\nDefine secure integration, functional and non-functional requirements, data governance and responsible AI requirements for the proposed solution.\nAlign solutions with NTT DATA reference architectures, reusable assets, delivery patterns and approved technology standards.\nPrototyping and feasibility validation\nDevelop, lead or coordinate prototypes and proofs of concept where required to validate feasibility, reduce delivery risk or demonstrate the proposed solution.\nTest material assumptions relating to model performance, data, integration, security, scalability, latency and consumption cost, with clear success and exit criteria.\nTranslate prototype findings into the production architecture, estimate, assumptions and risk position, engaging specialist engineering support where required.\nDelivery planning and resource model\nTranslate the solution into a realistic delivery approach covering workstreams, deliverables, milestones, dependencies and mobilisation.\nDefine or validate the resource model, effort estimates, skills, location strategy and use of global delivery centres, partners or subcontractors.\nAssess delivery timelines and define appropriate governance, roles, responsibilities, escalation and change control.\nIdentify requirements for managed services, production support, model monitoring, platform operations or continuous optimisation where applicable.\nCommercial solution development\nWork with commercial, finance, sales and delivery stakeholders to develop a commercial construct aligned to the architecture and delivery model.\nValidate estimates, rate-card assumptions, third-party costs, consumption charges and contingency, ensuring all material delivery costs are represented.\nEnsure the resource model, delivery estimate, pricing, contribution and margin assumptions remain internally consistent, with uncertainty managed through appropriate commercial mechanisms.\nSupport pricing and approval processes and challenge commercial constructs that create unmanageable technical or delivery risk for NTT DATA.\nScope and statement-of-work development\nSupport the drafting and review of proposals and statements of work, defining scope, deliverables, milestones, assumptions, exclusions, dependencies, client responsibilities and acceptance criteria.\nEnsure contractual artefacts accurately reflect the approved architecture, delivery approach, resource plan and commercial model, without ambiguous or unbounded commitments.\nCoordinate legal, security, data protection and responsible AI input and support negotiation of technical and delivery-related contractual terms.\nDeal assurance and governance\nAssess the completeness and quality of the proposed solution across architecture, technical feasibility, delivery readiness, resource requirements, commercial consistency and risk treatment.\nIdentify material technical, data, security, privacy, legal, commercial and delivery risks and ensure appropriate owners and mitigations are in place.\nPrepare and present assigned opportunities for relevant assurance and approval gates, coordinating required stakeholder review and sign-off.\nProvide a clear, evidence-based assurance recommendation: proceed, proceed subject to conditions, return for rework or do not proceed in the proposed form.\nTrack assurance conditions, escalate material concerns and maintain appropriate decision records; ensure independent review where the architect has materially developed the solution.\nTransition and handover to delivery\nMaintain a controlled solution baseline through contracting and mobilisation, ensuring material changes are reflected consistently across deal artefacts.\nLead the transition to delivery, providing the approved architecture, scope, commercial baseline, resource plan, assumptions, dependencies, risks and client commitments.\nSupport early mobilisation, resolve gaps between what was sold and what is being delivered, and capture feedback to improve future solutioning and estimates.\nReuse and capability development\nContribute reusable AI architectures, delivery patterns, prototypes, estimation models, proposal assets and commercial assumptions informed by pursuit and delivery experience.\nShare knowledge, coach regional teams and continuously improve the methods, templates and governance controls used by the AI Deal Intake, Assurance & Governance function.\nKnowledge and Attributes\nAdvanced enterprise solution architecture knowledge across application, integration, data, infrastructure, cloud and security domains.\nStrong understanding of AI, generative AI and agentic AI solution patterns, including model selection and evaluation, RAG, prompting, grounding, data pipelines, APIs and vector databases.\nStrong knowledge of major cloud platforms and their AI, data, integration and security capabilities, with working knowledge of software engineering, DevOps, MLOps and LLMOps.\nAbility to develop or lead prototypes and assess the path from proof of concept to a secure, scalable and supportable production solution.\nStrong understanding of security, privacy, compliance, data governance and responsible AI considerations.\nCommercial acumen across estimates, rate cards, pricing models, third-party costs, contribution, margin, contingency and cost recovery.\nUnderstanding of statements of work, contractual assumptions, acceptance criteria, client dependencies, change control and delivery transition.\nStrong client-facing consulting, communication and stakeholder-management skills across technical, commercial, delivery and executive audiences.\nAbility to exercise constructive challenge, make evidence-based decisions and manage multiple complex opportunities under demanding pursuit timelines.\nStrong analytical capability and attention to detail when reviewing solution, commercial and contractual artefacts.\nAcademic Qualifications and Certifications\nBachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in computer science, engineering, data science, information systems, business or a related field.\nRelevant cloud or AI certification from Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform is preferred.\nEnterprise or solution architecture certification such as TOGAF is advantageous; additional AI, security, privacy, agile, project or service-management certifications are beneficial.\nIdeal / Desired Experience\nExtensive experience in enterprise solution architecture, technical consulting, AI engineering or complex technology delivery, preferably within a large-scale technology-services environment.\nExperience working across pre-sales and delivery, engaging senior clients and translating business needs into viable technical solutions.\nDemonstrated experience designing or validating enterprise AI and generative AI solutions, including prototypes and integration with enterprise platforms and data.\nExperience with one or more major cloud platforms and their AI, data and integration services.\nExperience defining delivery scope, work breakdown structures, resource models, effort estimates and delivery plans.\nExperience contributing to commercial models, pricing assumptions, rate-card constructs or business cases for complex technology engagements.\nExperience drafting or reviewing statements of work, managing technical and delivery risk, and supporting formal solution or deal-assurance reviews.\nExperience transitioning solutions into delivery and working across sales, commercial, engineering, delivery, security, legal and partner teams; regulated environments and AI managed services/MLOps/LLMOps experience are advantageous.\nWorkplace type:\nHybrid WorkingAbout NTT DATA\nNTT DATA is a $30+ billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune\nGlobal 100. We are committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through\nresponsible innovation. We are one of the world’s leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with\nunmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and\napplication services. Our consulting and industry solutions help organizations and society move\nconfidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more\nthan 70 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as\nestablished and start-up partners. 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