Application Architect-AI Integration

International Business Machines Corporation; Pune District; Hybrid; INR 3,000,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

IBM Consulting in Pune, Maharashtra, India seeks an Application Architect for AI Integration to design end-to-end architectures embedding AI into enterprise applications and workflows. You will balance vendor services with custom development and drive governance for AI adoption.

You will collaborate with stakeholders to translate business goals into scalable, secure designs, ensuring observability, privacy, and cost objectives are met throughout the AI lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field is required.
• Master's degree is preferred.
• Experience with AI architectures, governance, and reference pattern development is essential.
• Experience translating business objectives into scalable designs with security and cost considerations.
• Experience integrating AI services with enterprise data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end architectures embedding AI into enterprise applications and workflows.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business objectives into scalable, resilient designs.
• Govern AI integration, including prompts governance, guardrails, and lifecycle management.
• Ensure observability, privacy, and compliance from design through operations.

Skills

AI Architecture Design

Technical Governance

Reference Pattern Development

Stakeholder Collaboration

AI Service Integration

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Job description

## Application Architect-AI IntegrationPUNE, Maharashtra, IndiaProfessional* Email* X* LinkedInApply nowIntroductionA career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.In this role, you'll work in one of our **IBM Consulting FutureNow Centers**, where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.Your role and responsibilitiesAs an Application Architect for AI Integration, this role is responsible for designing and governing end-to-end architectures that embed AI capabilities into enterprise applications and workflows. The Application Architect collaborates with stakeholders to translate business objectives into scalable designs, balancing vendor-managed services with custom development, and drives governance for AI integration.Your primary responsibilities will include:• **Designing Architectures:** defining reference patterns for AI services, models, and orchestration layers to integrate seamlessly with existing systems, APIs, and data platforms.• **Collaborating with Stakeholders:** translating business objectives into scalable, resilient, and policy-compliant designs, ensuring performance, security, compliance, and cost objectives are met.• **Governing AI Integration:** driving governance for prompts, guardrails, and lifecycle management, ensuring observability, privacy, and responsible AI principles are embedded from design through operations.Required educationBachelor's DegreePreferred educationMaster's DegreeRequired technical and professional expertise• **AI Architecture Design:** Experience with designing end-to-end architectures that embed AI capabilities into enterprise applications and workflows, ensuring seamless integration with existing systems, APIs, and data platforms.• **Technical Governance:** Experience with driving governance for prompts, guardrails, and lifecycle management, ensuring observability, privacy, and responsible AI principles are embedded from design through operations.• **Reference Pattern Development:** Experience with defining reference patterns for AI services, models, and orchestration layers, including Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and hybrid reasoning.• **Stakeholder Collaboration:** Experience with collaborating with stakeholders to translate business objectives into scalable, resilient, and policy-compliant designs, balancing vendor-managed services with custom development.• **AI Service Integration:** Experience with integrating AI services, models, and orchestration layers with existing systems, APIs, and data platforms, meeting performance, security, compliance, and cost objectives.Preferred technical and professional experience• **Advanced AI Concepts:** Experience with emerging AI technologies and trends, such as explainable AI and edge AI, can be beneficial.• **Cloud Native Services:** Knowledge of cloud-native services and serverless architectures can be advantageous in designing scalable AI integrations.• **Data Platform Integration:** Familiarity with integrating AI services with various data platforms and APIs can be useful.**Years of Experience:**12 - 16### ABOUT BUSINESS UNITIBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.### YOUR LIFE @ IBMIn a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.Are you ready to be an IBMer?### ABOUT IBMIBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.### OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILSWhen applying to jobs of your interest, we recommend that you do so for those that match your experience and expertise. Our recruiters advise that you apply to not more than 3 roles in a year for the best candidate experience. For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.Job TitleApplication Architect AI IntegrationJob ID129320City / Township / VillagePUNEState / ProvinceMaharashtraCountryIndiaWork arrangementHybridArea of workSoftware EngineeringEmployment typeRegularPosition typeProfessionalTravel requiredUp to 20% or 1 day a weekCompany(0063) IBM India Private LimitedShiftGeneral (daytime)Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?No