Gen AI Solution Architect

For more than 80 years, our client’s engineers and product specialists have partnered with customers to produce highly engineered connectivity and sensing solutions that make a connected world possible. Their focus on reliability, durability, and sustainability exemplifies their commitment to progress. The unmatched range of their product portfolio enables companies, large and small, to turn ideas into technology that can transform how the world works and lives tomorrow.

Role Description:

• The AI Solution Architect will oversee the architecture for AI solution teams, focusing on modifying existing products and creating new ones.
• The ideal candidate should be passionate about designing, building, implementing, and maintaining AI/ML/Generative AI applications.
• Leadership skills are essential to implement the latest AI techniques and architectures and to continuously improve the AI/ML development, delivery, and operations process.
• The role involves adhering to best practices from Software Engineering, DevOps, MLOps, and LLMOps.
• The AI Solution Architect will also be responsible for translating project requirements into strategic architecture solutions, ensuring the integration of cloud-native tools from major hyperscalers and machine learning to create chatbots, optimizations, and cognitive services.
• This role requires a blend of technical expertise and the ability to bridge the gap between intricate business challenges and transformative AI solutions, making it a strategically crucial position.

Responsibilities:

• Define and oversee the AI/ML/GenAI technical direction and architectural vision, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and digital transformation efforts.
• Data Analysis, Tool and Framework selection, Model Development, Testing and Deployment.
• Key contributor in architecting a comprehensive AI Engineering framework that supports the deployment, evaluation, and management of ML models & GenAI solutions.
• Select appropriate technologies from a pool of open-source and commercial offerings, considering deployment models and integration with existing tools.
• Understand and contribute to MLOps and LLMOps focusing on operational capabilities and infrastructure to deploy and manage machine learning models and large language models.
• Collaborate with Enterprise, Application, Data & DevOps Architects, Data scientists, Machine Learning & GenAI Engineers, and Business teams to pilot use cases and discuss architectural design.
• Develop and maintain contact with top decision makers, lead proposal development, and contribute to pricing strategies.
• Audit AI tools and practices across data, models and software engineering focusing on continuous improvement and feedback mechanisms.
• Help AI product managers and business stakeholders understand the potential and limitations of AI when planning new products.
• Own all communication and collaboration channels pertaining to assigned projects, including regular stakeholder review meetings and cross team alignments.
• Work closely with the business, segment analytics, IT teams and partners to deliver the outcome and help drive adoption. 
• Hands-on prototyping of new technology solutions by working with cross teams

Requirements:

• 15+ Years of Experience operating on AWS Cloud or other cloud hyperscalers with building Data and AI Solutions
• 15+ Years of Experience Data Warehouses, Data Lakes and Data Modelling techniques
• 15 + years of experience in Data Science, Statistics, and Machine Learning
• 15+ years of experience in machine learning model development, natural language processing, and data analysis;
• Experienced in Supervised and Unsupervised learning, feature engineering, model training, and deployment.
• 15+ years of experience in implementing cloud-based AI/ML workloads on any cloud hyperscalers (AWS, Google or Azure).
• Good understanding and implementation experience on GenAI models available with Cloud hyperscalers. AWS Bedrock experience is a plus but not required.
• 15+ Years of coding experience with Python, R, SQL etc.
• Hands on experience working with LLM/RAG/Finetuning
• Experience working on Agile projects and Agile methodology in general.
• Experience in configuration management tools and defining configuration management schema
• Excellent problem solving, communications, and teamwork skills.
• Exceptional presentation, visualization, and analysis skills

Motivational/Cultural Fit

• Innovation demeanor Problem solving.
• Passion for technology.
• Self development.
• Results driven.
• Clear and concise communication both locally and globally.

Competencies

• Values: Integrity, Accountability, Teamwork, Innovation.
• Knowledge of business ethics and Ethical Sourcing Requirements.
• Ability to influence at an Executive Level both internally and externally.
• Ability to lead and influence peer groups both internally and externally.
• Knowledge of Total Cost of Ownership methodology (TCO).
• Distributor/Supplier dynamics & business models.
• Knowledge of critical procurement legal requirements and contracting best practices a plus.