AI Solution Architect - AWS Senior Manager - Data & AI - Technology Consulting - Advisory

PwC; Dublin; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Benefits package

Flexibility programs

Job summary

PwC Ireland is seeking an AI Solution Architect at Senior Manager level to lead engagements on AI strategy, AWS architecture and technology transformation for Ireland's largest organisations across financial services, government and tech sectors.

You will assess business processes, data capabilities, cloud platforms and operating models, design end-to-end AWS solutions, advise on LLM selection and governance, and mentor delivery teams to ensure secure, production-ready architectures aligned with

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in solution architecture, enterprise architecture, data architecture, or technology consulting.
• Experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale AWS, data, and AI solutions.
• Strong experience translating business requirements into technical architecture designs.
• Practical experience with Generative AI, Large Language Models, machine learning.
• Strong understanding of LLM architecture, security, performance and cost.
• Experience working with senior stakeholders and multi-disciplinary delivery teams.
• Experience evaluating current-state technology environments and defining future-state architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead client engagements focused on AI strategy, AWS architecture and technology transformation.
• Assess business processes, data capabilities, cloud platforms and operating models.
• Identify high-value AI opportunities and develop practical implementation roadmaps.
• Design secure, scalable and cost-effective AI solutions across data, Generative AI, Agentic AI, integration and governance.
• Advise clients on LLM selection, performance, security, risk and cost.
• Support the development of PwC’s AWS AI propositions and reusable assets.
• Facilitate executive workshops, strategy sessions and architecture reviews.
• Assess business objectives, operating models, technology landscapes and data maturity.
• Prioritise AI use cases and define implementation roadmaps.
• Advise senior stakeholders on AI opportunities, risks, investment priorities and adoption.
• Design end-to-end AWS architectures for Generative AI, Agentic AI, machine learning and intelligent automation.
• Develop solution designs using services such as Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker and Amazon OpenSearch Service.
• Define integration approaches across enterprise systems, applications, APIs and cloud platforms.
• Ensure solutions are secure, resilient, production-ready and aligned with AWS Well-Architected principles.
• Advise on model selection, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, prompt design, evaluation and agent orchestration.
• Assess trade-offs across quality, latency, token usage, scalability and cost.
• Define cost estimates, usage controls, monitoring and optimisation approaches.
• Define AWS-based data and AI architectures covering ingestion, storage, integration, governance and security.
• Support architecture decisions across cloud data platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake and related ecosystems.
• Establish controls for identity, encryption, privacy, monitoring and auditability.
• Address AI risks including hallucination, prompt injection, data leakage and unauthorised agent actions.
• Support compliance with GDPR, the EU AI Act and relevant industry requirements.
• Provide architecture leadership throughout delivery programmes.
• Review technical designs and assure solution quality.
• Support estimation, planning and technical governance processes.
• Mentor engineers, data architects and AI practitioners.
• Contribute to thought leadership, capability development and business growth initiatives.

Skills

Solution architecture

AWS architecture

Generative AI

LLMs

Security

Cost optimisation

DevSecOps

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

AWS services

Bedrock

SageMaker

Job description

Line of Service

Advisory

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

Technology Strategy

Management Level

Senior Manager

Job Description & Summary

PwC Ireland- Bring Your Talent, Grow Your Skills, Unlock Your Potential!

Do you want to be a part of a team of technology and digital leaders, experienced in scoping, and delivering large transformation programmes in complex matrix environments?

Our Data & AIConsulting team is dedicated toleveragingtechnologyin order tosolve complex business problems for our clients. We work with Ireland’s largest organisations across a wide range of industries including financial services, government, healthcare, technology,mediaand telecoms.

Do you want to be a part of a community of problem solvers combining human ingenuity,experienceand technology innovation to deliver sustained outcomes and build trust?

At PwC, we believe real transformation is Human Led and Tech Powered. Key to delivering this capability and driving our continued growth is our ability to guide clients in their consideration and implementation of leading Data, Analytics & AI Technologies. As we embark on further building on our deep technical and commercial teams, we are hiring for talent with skills in data strategy, governance, and transformation. By joining our Data, Analytics & AI team you will have the opportunity to help shape the future of our company and help clients deliver bigger, more impactful transformation that lasts.

Purpose-led workyou’llbe part of

As an AI Solution Architect, you will:

• Lead client engagements focused on AI strategy, AWS architecture and technology transformation.
• Assess business processes, data capabilities, cloudplatformsand operating models.
• Identify high-value AI opportunities and develop practical implementation roadmaps.
• Design secure,scalableand cost-effective AI solutions across data, Generative AI, Agentic AI,integrationand governance.
• Advise clients on LLM selection, performance, security,riskand cost.
• Support the development of PwC’s AWS AI propositions and reusable assets.

Key Responsibilities

Client Discovery & Advisory

• Facilitate executive workshops, strategysessionsand architecture reviews.
• Assess businessobjectives, operating models, technologylandscapesand data maturity.
• PrioritiseAI use cases and defineimplementation roadmaps.
• Advise senior stakeholders on AI opportunities, risks, investmentprioritiesand adoption.

AI Solution Architecture

• Design end-to-end AWS architectures for Generative AI, Agentic AI, machinelearningand intelligent automation.
• Develop solution designs using services such as Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Q and Amazon OpenSearch Service.
• Define integration approaches across enterprise systems, applications,APIsand cloud platforms.
• Ensure solutions are secure, resilient, production-ready and aligned with AWS Well-Architected principles.

LLM, Cost & Performance

• Advise on model selection, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, prompt design,evaluationand agent orchestration.
• Assess trade-offs across quality, latency, token usage,scalabilityand cost.
• Define cost estimates, usage controls,monitoringand optimisation approaches.

Data, Security and Governance

• Define AWS-based data and AI architectures covering ingestion, storage, integration,governanceand security.
• Support architecture decisions across modern cloud data platformssuch as Databricks, Snowflake and / orrelated ecosystems.
• Establish controls for identity, encryption, privacy,monitoringand auditability.
• Address AI risks including hallucination, prompt injection, dataleakageand unauthorised agent actions.
• Support compliance with GDPR, the EU AI Act and relevant industry requirements.

Delivery Leadership

• Provide architecture leadership throughout delivery programmes.
• Review technical designs and assure solution quality.
• Support estimation,planningand technical governance processes.
• Mentor engineers, dataarchitectsand AI practitioners.
• Contribute to thought leadership, capabilitydevelopmentand business growth initiatives.

Your Profile

Essential Experience

• 8+ years of experience in solution architecture, enterprise architecture, dataarchitectureor technology consulting.
• Experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale AWS,dataand AI solutions.
• Strong experience translating business requirements into technical architecture designs.
• Practical experience with Generative AI, Large Language Models, machine learning.
• Strong understanding of LLM architecture, security,performanceand cost.
• Experience working with senior stakeholders and multi-disciplinary delivery teams.
• Experience evaluating current-state technology environments and defining future-state architectures.

Technical Skills

Strong understanding of:

• AWS architecture and Well-Architected principles
• Amazon Bedrock, AmazonSageMakerand related AWS AI services
• Generative AI, AgenticAIand Retrieval-Augmented Generation
• Model selection, evaluation, tokenusageand cost optimisation
• Enterprise data architecture and integration
• AWS security, identity,networkingand monitoring
• Responsible AI,governanceand regulatory compliance
• DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code and production observability

Preferred qualifications include:

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology,Engineeringor related discipline.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect –Associate or Professional
• Relevant practical experience designing and delivering AI solutions on AWS.

Unlock your potential with PwC Ireland

We believe that challenges are better solved together!We’reinspiring and empowering our people to change the world. Powered by the latest technology,you’llbe a part of amazing teams encouraged to collaborate and innovate in a way that creates powerful solutions and makes a positive impact. This purpose-led work, and our continuous development and encouragement, will help unlock your potential and take your career to the next level.

Enjoy PwC’sperks

We reward your impact, and support your wellbeing, through a competitive compensation package, inclusive employee benefits and flexibility programs that will help you thrive in work and life. Learn more about us at Life@PwC. (https://www.pwc.ie/careers-ie/life-at-pwc.html)

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