AI Infrastructure Architect

Accenture in India; Chennai District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture in India is seeking an AI Infrastructure Architect to design and build optimized Snowflake-based AI infrastructure for production ML applications. The role requires 12+ years of experience and deep knowledge of Snowflake, ML pipelines, and cloud integration.

You will lead architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and ensure security, compliance and cost-efficiency across client projects. Strong communication and stakeholder alignment are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or a related engineering field.
• Minimum 12 Year(s) Of Experience required.
• 15 years full time education.
• Experience with AI/ML infrastructure, cloud platforms, data platforms, model deployment pipelines or large-scale engineering solutions.
• Strong understanding of AI/ML concepts and compute infrastructure for production workloads.
• Experience with data pipeline/workflow tools like Airflow, Kubeflow, or equivalent tooling.
• Ability to lead AI projects and manage priorities across initiatives.
• Proven experience evaluating and selecting AI technologies, frameworks, cloud services and architecture patterns.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end architecture and design of optimized Snowflake data and AI infrastructure, including warehouses and Snowpark workloads.
• Design and tune scalable Snowflake warehouses, tasks, streams, and cloud integrations.
• Serve as an AI infrastructure expert on Snowflake, applying knowledge of governance, security and cost levers.
• Develop architecture alternatives and weigh trade-offs across compute, networking, storage, and security.
• Lead architecture reviews, identify gaps and optimization opportunities, and propose remediation.
• Drive architecture decision-making with clear documentation of rationale and dependencies.
• Define AI infra roadmap, capacity planning, scaling, and cost forecasts.
• Design deploy/CI-CD strategies for reliable releases of AI systems and pipelines.
• Establish AI monitoring and observability practices across InfraOps and MLOps.

Skills

Python

AI concepts

Communication

Education

15 years education

Bachelors in CS/Engineering

Tools

Snowflake

Azure Data Services

Snowpark

Cortex/AI capabilities

Job description

Job Description:

Project Role : AI Infrastructure Architect

Project Role Description : Architect and build custom Artificial Intelligence (AI) infrastructure/hardware solutions. Optimize AI infrastructure/hardware performance, power consumption, cost and scalability of computational stack. Advise on AI infrastructure technology and vendor evaluation, selection and full stack integration.

Must have skills : Machine Learning (ML)

Good to have skills : Snowflake Data Warehouse, Microsoft Azure Data Services

Minimum 12 Year(s) Of Experience Is Required

Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education

AI Powered Tech Talent

As a Senior Engineer in AI Infrastructure Architecture for Snowflake, you will own significant portions of the end-to-end architecture and engineering of optimized data and AI infrastructure for production machine learning and AI-enabled applications. You will design scalable warehouses, Snowpark workloads, AI-ready data/feature pipelines, model-enablement patterns, automation and operational controls that align with client standards, SLAs, security, compliance and cost-efficiency expectations. You will bring industry experience across enterprise AI adoption, platform modernization, regulated data workloads, FinOps and production reliability, while mentoring engineers and partnering with architects to translate business requirements into robust Snowflake-based AI infrastructure solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Own end-to-end architecture and design of optimized Snowflake data and AI infrastructure, including warehouses, Snowpark workloads, secure data architecture, AI-ready feature/data pipelines, model integration and AI application enablement.

Design and tune scalable Snowflake warehouses, tasks, streams, Snowpark services, Cortex/AI capabilities, Streamlit applications and cloud integrations, including compute sizing, query optimization, governance, access controls and high-throughput data access design.

Serve as an authoritative AI infrastructure expert on Snowflake, applying deep knowledge of Snowflake Data Cloud capabilities, data/AI application patterns, governance, security and cost levers.

Develop and evaluate architecture alternatives, weighing trade-offs across compute, networking, storage, orchestration, model serving, observability, security, compliance, cost and operational complexity.

Lead architecture assessments and reviews of existing and proposed environments, identifying gaps, risks, bottlenecks and optimization opportunities, and recommending remediation actions.

Drive architecture decision-making by documenting rationale, trade-offs, assumptions and dependencies so decisions are transparent, defensible and aligned with business SLAs and standards.

Define and maintain AI infrastructure roadmap inputs, capacity planning models, scaling strategies, cost forecasts and performance improvement opportunities.

Design deployment, automation and CI/CD strategies for reliable, repeatable and scalable releases of AI systems, models, data pipelines and platform components into production.

Establish AI monitoring and observability practices across InfraOps and MLOps, including SLAs, SLOs, alerting, performance/cost tracking and continuous optimization.

Integrate AI/ML systems into enterprise environments while ensuring interoperability, security, compliance, regulatory alignment and adherence to client standards.

Collaborate with clients, stakeholders, architects and engineering teams to align infrastructure decisions with business outcomes and translate requirements into actionable architecture standards.

Set technical direction for workstreams, mentor engineers, review designs/code and promote engineering best practices across the team.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or a related engineering field.

Minimum 4 years of experience coding, building, monitoring, troubleshooting, designing and operating AI/ML infrastructure, cloud platforms, data platforms, model deployment pipelines or large-scale engineering solutions.

Strong understanding of AI/ML concepts and the computing infrastructure required to deploy, run and optimize production AI workloads.

Minimum 4 years of proficiency in programming or scripting languages such as Python, Java, C++, Bash, PowerShell or equivalent engineering languages.

Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools such as Apache Airflow, Kubeflow, managed orchestration services or platform-native workflow tooling.

Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced engineering or client delivery environment.

Excellent communication, collaboration and stakeholder alignment skills.

Minimum 4 years of experience in AI/ML infrastructure engineering or related roles on a hyperscaler or enterprise platform for deploying large-scale solutions.

Proven experience leading AI projects or engineering workstreams and managing priorities across multiple initiatives.

Demonstrated experience evaluating and selecting AI technologies, frameworks, cloud services and architecture patterns.

Required Skills/ Experience

Strong hands-on experience with Snowflake warehouses, databases, schemas, secure data sharing/access controls, Snowpark, Cortex/AI capabilities, Streams/Tasks, Streamlit and cloud ecosystem integrations.

Experience architecting scalable data and feature pipelines, AI application integrations, model-enablement patterns, governance, query/warehouse optimization and secure data access.

Strong working knowledge of SQL, Python, dbt/Terraform, CI/CD, DataOps, MLOps/AI enablement patterns, observability and incident response practices.

Ability to optimize Snowflake AI infrastructure for performance, cost, scalability, security, reliability and compliance.

Experience producing architecture decision records, reference implementations, standards, runbooks and reusable platform patterns.

Good to Have Skills

Snowflake certifications such as SnowPro Advanced Architect, SnowPro Advanced Data Engineer or related AI/data platform credentials.

Industry experience in BFSI, healthcare, retail/e-commerce, telecom, manufacturing, energy or public sector environments where data/AI platforms must meet compliance, security, reliability and cost-control requirements.

Exposure to Snowpark, Cortex/AI features, vector search, retrieval pipelines, feature engineering, model enablement and AI application architecture.

Knowledge of Snowflake governance, secure data sharing, FinOps, infrastructure partner/vendor collaboration and production support operating models.