[Hiring] Senior AI Solutions Architect @NTT Ltd.

Role Description

As a Senior AI Solutions Architect at NTT DATA, you will play an essential role in collaborating with clients and internal teams to create advanced, transformational designs and architectural visions for complex solutions. The Senior AI Solutions Architect is an advanced subject matter expert, primarily responsible for consulting with the client and working with internal teams to create strategies, transformational designs, and the architectural vision for more complex private and sovereign AI that address the clients’ needs.

This role acts as a trusted technical advisor specializing in positioning comprehensive AI solutions for customers. Responsibilities include:

• Architect end-to-end AI solutions: secure AI factories, data architectures, and automation frameworks.
• Identifies and evaluates alternative architectures and the trade-offs in cost, performance, and scalability.
• Produces specifications of cloud-based or on-premises components, tiers, and interfaces, for translation into detailed designs using selected services and products.
• Supports a change program or project through the preparation of technical plans and application of design principles that comply with enterprise and solution architecture standards.
• Accountable for understanding client requirements, collecting data, delivering analysis, and problem resolution.
• Monitors the external environment to gather intelligence on emerging technologies.
• Creates reports and technology roadmaps and shares knowledge and insights with others.
• Designs components using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed architectures, design standards, patterns, and methodology.
• Lead the technical response for RFPs/RFIs, including architecture diagrams, delivery plans, assumptions, estimates, and risk analysis.
• Build and deliver executive-level presentations and solution briefings.
• Create high-quality proposals, statements of work (SOWs), and POV/POC plans.
• Support business development teams in deal qualification, competitive positioning, and differentiation.
• Reviews, verifies, and improves own designs against specifications.
• Makes recommendations for the development of new go-to-market services and contributes knowledge on relevant verticals.
• Operates across both the technical levels within the enterprise architecture and the value chain in order to develop holistic and integrated solutions.
• Provides coaching and mentoring to less experienced Solutions Architects.

Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge of multi-vendor service integrations and cross-functional software, OS’s, and infrastructure designs.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written coupled with excellent interpersonal skills to build solid working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Advanced knowledge on how specific infrastructures and application software are deployed in line with relevant methodologies and frameworks.
• Ability to develop and leverage their advanced specialist knowledge of reference architectures.
• Ability to maintain knowledge of trends and development in technology domains.
• Ability to keep abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies.
• Advanced ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams such as sales, product, delivery, etc.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science, engineering, business, or a related field.
• Certification and working knowledge of Enterprise Architecture methodologies (for example, TOGAF, Zachman, SOA, ITIL, COBIT, etc.).
• Safe Scaled Agile certification advantageous.
• Certified Software related certification is desired.
• Cisco CCIE and/or Cisco CCXP certification strongly desired.
• Have a minimum of 6 years of technical consulting experience (or similar), plus at least a couple of years of pre-sales experience designing & selling data center / AI infrastructure solutions.
• Industry experience in sectors such as financial services, manufacturing, or healthcare.
• Significant experience working with OEM partners such as Cisco, Palo Alto, Dell, HPE, and others relevant partners.
• Experience with architecting end-to-end AI solutions: secure AI factories, data architectures, and automation frameworks.
• Advanced professional technical, IT, or Operations experience within a large scale (preferably global, multi-national) technology services environment.
• Advanced Project or Program Management experience would be preferred but not essential.
• Advanced client engagement and consulting experience coupled with solid experience in client needs assessment and change management.
• Advanced experience in integrating the solution for the particular project with the business domain, enterprise concerns, industry standards, established patterns, and best practices.
• Advanced experience working in an agile development environment.
• Advanced experience in developing, selling, and delivering technical solutions.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Flexible spending or health savings account.
• Life and AD&D insurance.
• Short-and long-term disability coverage.
• Paid time off.
• Employee assistance.
• Participation in a 401k program with company match.
• Additional voluntary or legally required benefits.