Senior AI Architect - Senior Manager, IT Business Services

As a Senior AI Architect, you will be expected to:

• Design and build advanced AI solutions, moving seamlessly between architectural design and hands-on technical execution from PoC to production.
• Build foundational AI capabilities and accelerators that fast-track the overall enterprise AI journey, going beyond just delivering point solutions for specific business use cases.
• Empower and elevate the team to become industry leaders, while actively contributing thought leadership, open-source code, or innovations to the global AI community.
• Spearhead the assessment of the latest Agentic AI platforms, multi-agent frameworks, and foundation models, driving the strategic decision on the best fit for the Deloitte landscape.
• Define and standardize best practices, architectural blueprints, and agile methodologies for the AI engineering teams.
• Architect end-to-end data pipelines, models, and AI applications, heavily utilizing cloud platforms and MLOps/LLMOps/AgentOps frameworks across Azure AI/ML Studio, AWS Bedrock, and GCP Vertex.
• Oversee the deployment and optimization of complex AI Solutions, ensuring reliability, high performance, security, and scalability.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor, communicating effectively with stakeholders and business leaders using exceptional data visualization, storytelling, and executive presentation skills.
• Champion and establish frameworks for the ethical use of AI, AI governance policies, controls, and strict adherence to data privacy regulations and enterprise security standards.
• Mentor and guide a team of AI Engineers, fostering a culture of innovation.

• A degree in AI, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field (or equivalent advanced practical experience).
• Proven progressive experience in machine learning and AI, including experience in a senior or architectural role delivering enterprise-scale AI-driven solutions.
• Extensive background in Data Science with MLOps, overseeing the end-to-end model lifecycle from development to robust deployment.
• Proven capabilities in designing and building novel AI architectures from the ground up to solve complex, unprecedented enterprise challenges.
• Highly proficient in Python, with deep hands-on expertise in AI libraries and AI development frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, CrewAI, ADK, PyTorch and others).
• Proven track record in building reliable, high-performance multi-agent systems and integrating complex autonomous workflows into existing enterprise applications.
• Industry-leading expertise in designing and implementing Agentic AI solutions, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and A2A Protocol.
• Experience with Context Engineering to optimize language model performance, reasoning capabilities, and system outputs.
• Expertise with evaluation-based Agent development, designing robust testing frameworks to continuously assess, tune, and improve autonomous agent behaviour and reliability.
• Deep expertise with GenAI observability and monitoring frameworks (e.g., LangSmith, Langfuse) to ensure optimal system performance, trace complex reasoning chains, and maintain operational transparency.
• Experience in architecting and deploying solutions on major cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, and GCP), with a strong grasp of LLMOps/AgentOps and scalable cloud-native architectures.
• Demonstrated track record of technical leadership, with excellent communication, cross-functional collaboration, and executive stakeholder management skills.
• Deep understanding and prior experience leading the implementation of AI governance, ethical AI practices, and data privacy safeguards.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.

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