AI Solution Architect: Build Practical Retail AI Solutions

Salling Group; Aarhus; On-site; DKK 1,100,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Salling Group in Aarhus is seeking an AI Solution Architect to translate business needs into practical AI designs, bridging data, platforms, and enterprise architecture across retail operations, decision support, and customer experiences.

You will shape AI/ML initiatives with stakeholders, product owners, developers, and security teams, guiding implementation from concept to operation, including governance and lifecycle management.

Qualifications

• A relevant technical degree within Computer Science, Engineering, AI, Data Science, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience designing, developing, integrating, and operating software, data, AI, and machine learning solutions.
• The ability to understand business problems and translate them into coherent technical solutions while considering value, complexity, risk, cost, security, and maintainability.
• An understanding of modern software architecture, APIs, integrations, data flows, and cloud-based platforms, as well as the AI/ML lifecycle from development and deployment to evaluation, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders and clearly document solution designs and technical decisions.
• A structured approach to problems that may initially be ambiguous or insufficiently defined.

Responsibilities

• Translate business needs and opportunities into clear, actionable AI solution designs covering data, models, applications, integrations, deployment, and lifecycle.
• Evaluate solution options and communicate architectural choices and trade-offs, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, cost-conscious, maintainable, and compliant with data protection, responsible AI, governance, and regulatory requirements from the start.
• Guide implementation together with AI Developers and other technical specialists through architectural direction, practical sparring, and timely decision‑making.
• Stay hands-on where it matters by building prototypes, proof-of-concept code, and architecture-critical components to validate designs, reduce risk, and set the technical direction.
• Define reusable patterns, guardrails, interfaces, and documentation, and support reliable operation through evaluation, observability, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
• Create alignment across business areas, development, data and platform teams, security, and enterprise architecture, and share knowledge that strengthens architectural thinking across the team.

Job description

Salling Group in Aarhus is seeking an AI Solution Architect to translate business needs into practical AI designs, bridging data, platforms, and enterprise architecture across retail operations, decision support, and customer experiences.

You will shape AI/ML initiatives with stakeholders, product owners, developers, and security teams, guiding implementation from concept to operation, including governance and lifecycle management.