Senior AI/LLM Architect — Enterprise Platform Lead

Accenture; Calgary; On-site; CAD 109,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking an experienced AI/LLM Architect to design end-to-end AI platform architectures spanning generative and classical ML, with a strong focus on governance, security, and scalability.

You will own architectural decisions, mentor cross-functional teams, and deliver ADRs, blueprints, and runtime policies while aligning with client business goals and enterprise standards.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years designing & deploying enterprise-grade AI solutions, including agentic, generative and classical AI/ML across at least one cloud vendor.
• Minimum 2+ years in Agentic, LLM and Generative AI space.
• Minimum 4+ years coding in Python.
• Minimum 2+ years architecting and operationalizing LLM-driven architectures.
• Minimum 4+ years in ML/DL/NLP solutions in industry.
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Translate business strategy into a technical vision and define non-functional requirements for performance, reliability, and cost.
• Lead stakeholder workshops to align on feasibility and scope with clients and leadership.
• Evaluate AI platform tech choices and implement multi-agent system architectures.
• Design and implement memory services, data pipelines, and a grounded RAG context layer.
• Define security, governance and observability as central controls across AI systems.
• Produce architecture artifacts (ADRs, blueprints, diagrams) and mentor cross-functional teams.

Skills

Python

AI/ML design

Cloud architectures

Education

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent

Tools

Arize

LangSmith

Job description

Accenture is seeking an experienced AI/LLM Architect to design end-to-end AI platform architectures spanning generative and classical ML, with a strong focus on governance, security, and scalability.

You will own architectural decisions, mentor cross-functional teams, and deliver ADRs, blueprints, and runtime policies while aligning with client business goals and enterprise standards.