Senior AI Solution Architect: AWS & Generative AI Strategy

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

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