Enterprise AI Architecture Lead

NTT DATA; England; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA is hiring a Principal AI Architect to lead architecture for complex, strategic AI pursuits from discovery to win. You will translate business problems into enterprise-grade AI designs spanning data, model, integration, security and governance.

You’ll shape strategy across consulting, data, cloud, and partner technologies, create reusable patterns, and review solutions to mitigate delivery risk. Mentor colleagues and drive scalable MVPs across global teams.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, technology consulting, systems integration, software engineering, data architecture, or related roles.
• 5+ years of experience designing or delivering AI, data science, machine learning, advanced analytics, or intelligent automation solutions.
• 2+ years of hands-on or architecture experience with GenAI, LLMs, RAG, AI agents, orchestration frameworks, or enterprise AI platforms.
• Deep understanding of AI architecture considerations, including data readiness, model selection, security, governance, integration, scalability, observability, and operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture for complex, strategic, or high-value AI pursuits from discovery through proposal, negotiation, and win.
• Act as a senior technical advisor to client executives, CTO/CIO stakeholders, and internal pursuit teams.
• Translate business problems into enterprise-grade AI solution designs, including AI, data, model, agent, integration, security, governance, and operating model considerations.
• Shape solution strategy across NTT DATA capabilities, including consulting, applications, data, cloud, BPO, managed services, and partner technologies.
• Create reusable architecture patterns, technical points of view, accelerators, and differentiated solution narratives.
• Conduct technical solution reviews, challenge assumptions, and reduce delivery risk before deals are committed.
• Guide proof-of-concept and MVP design to ensure prototypes can scale into production programs.
• Mentor AI Solution Architects and support capability-building across the global AI architecture community.
• Surface architecture gaps, delivery risks, and emerging technology needs to AI GTM leadership.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Solution Architecture

Technology Consulting

Data Architecture

AI/ML

GenAI

LLMs

Security & Governance

Leadership

Stakeholder Influence

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

OpenAI

Anthropic

Mistral

Google Gemini

Databricks

Snowflake

Kubernetes

Vector databases

MLOps/LLMOps tooling

Job description

NTT DATA is hiring a Principal AI Architect to lead architecture for complex, strategic AI pursuits from discovery to win. You will translate business problems into enterprise-grade AI designs spanning data, model, integration, security and governance.

You’ll shape strategy across consulting, data, cloud, and partner technologies, create reusable patterns, and review solutions to mitigate delivery risk. Mentor colleagues and drive scalable MVPs across global teams.