Data Architect

AI Architect

Role Overview

The AI Architect / AI Lead will be responsible for defining the AI strategy, designing scalable AI/ML architectures, and leading endtoend implementation of AI solutions across the organization. This role involves deep technical expertise, strategic leadership, and collaboration with crossfunctional teams to drive the adoption of AI responsibly and effectively.

Key Responsibilities

1. AI Strategy & Leadership

• Develop and maintain the enterprise AI roadmap aligned with business objectives.
• Evaluate new AI technologies, frameworks, and vendors to support innovation.
• Define governance frameworks for responsible AI, privacy, security, and ethics.
• Lead AI/ML initiatives across multiple business units.

2. Architecture & Technical Design

• Design scalable, secure, cloudnative AI/ML architectures (Azure AI, AWS, GCP).
• Define MLOps frameworks for continuous training, deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
• Architect data pipelines, vector databases, LLM orchestration, and retrievalaugmented generation (RAG) systems.
• Select appropriate models (LLMs, CV, NLP, Generative AI, predictive analytics) based on business needs.

3. Solution Development

• Provide technical leadership for building and deploying AI applications.
• Work with data scientists, ML engineers, and software teams to deliver productiongrade models.
• Optimize AI workloads for cost, performance, and scalability.
• Oversee integration of AI into products, platforms, and enterprise systems.

4. Stakeholder Collaboration

• Translate business challenges into AI use cases with measurable outcomes.
• Work with product owners, data teams, and business leaders to prioritize initiatives.
• Present AI strategy and technical recommendations to executives and leadership teams.

5. Risk, Compliance & Responsible AI

• Ensure compliance with data protection laws (GDPR, HIPAA, DPDP, etc.).
• Create explainability and transparency frameworks for AI decisions.
• Implement controls to prevent bias, model drift, and data misuse.

Required Skills & Experience

Technical Skills

• 9–15+ years of overall experience, with 4+ years in AI/ML architecture or leadership roles.
• Strong understanding of:
• Machine learning, deep learning, NLP, LLMs, RAG, transformers.
• Cloud platforms: Azure AI, AWS Sagemaker, or Google Vertex AI.
• MLOps tools: MLflow, Databricks, Kubeflow, Airflow, Docker, Kubernetes.
• Data engineering: Spark, Databricks, Data Factory, pipelines, ETL/ELT.
• Programming: Python, SQL; familiarity with TensorFlow/PyTorch.
• Experience designing enterprisegrade AI systems and microservices architectures.

Soft Skills

• Strong communication and stakeholdermanagement skills.
• Ability to balance technical depth with strategic thinking.
• Leadership experience with cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's or bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Data Science, or related fields.
• Certifications in cloud (Azure AI Engineer, AWS ML Specialty, etc.).
• Experience implementing generative AI and LLM solutions in production.
• Background in industryspecific domains (finance, telecom, retail, healthcare, etc.).

What You Will Lead

• Enterprise AI strategy & architecture
• AI platform modernization & MLOps
• GenAI and LLM adoption
• Crossfunctional AI squads
• Innovation and PoCs
• Responsible AI & governance

Regards,

TA Team

KANINI Software Solutions