AI LLM Technology Architecture Associate Director

About the role

As a Lead or Principal AI Architect you will be the definitive technical authority on AI architecture across client engagements and the practice. You will own the end‑to‑end design of advanced AI platforms—including classical machine learning, generative AI and agentic systems—ensuring they align with business objectives and enterprise‑grade standards.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with CIOs, CTOs and senior business leaders to shape enterprise AI strategy and translate business goals into a coherent technical vision.
• Lead enterprise AI assessments, build implementation roadmaps and own the complete technical solution for complex AI platforms.
• Design and govern multi‑agent ecosystems, memory services, foundation model integration, inference strategies and high‑throughput, low‑latency serving.
• Establish security, governance, observability, performance and scalability frameworks across all domains.
• Produce authoritative architecture artifacts such as ADRs, reference architectures, component diagrams and integration specifications.
• Drive thought leadership, contribute to practice assets and represent the firm externally through publications and conferences.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• Minimum 8 years experience designing and deploying enterprise‑grade AI solutions using agentic, generative and classical AI/ML on at least one cloud platform.
• At least 2 years experience in LLM and Generative AI, and 2 years architecting LLM‑driven application patterns.
• 6+ years experience in engineering, machine learning, deep learning and NLP solutions.

Required skills

• Machine Learning
• Deep Learning
• Natural Language Processing (NLP)
• Large Language Models (LLM)
• Generative AI
• Cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)