Senior AI Architecture & Strategy Director

Accenture Middle East; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 350,000 - 640,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Middle East seeks a Lead or Principal AI Architect to serve as the definitive technical authority on AI architecture in client engagements and across the practice. You will own the end-to-end architecture of advanced AI platforms, spanning generative AI, agentic systems, and classical ML, ensuring alignment with business objectives and enterprise-grade standards.

You will collaborate with CIOs, CTOs, and senior leaders to shape the enterprise AI strategy, set governance, security, and

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing & deploying enterprise-grade AI solutions using agentic, generative and classical AI/ML on at least one cloud vendor.
• Proven experience in the LLM and Generative AI space.
• Proven experience architecting and operationalizing LLM-driven application architecture patterns.
• Engineering, ML, DL and NLP experience; minimum 6 years as a machine architect in industry and large-scale analytics.

Responsibilities

• Shape enterprise AI strategy with CIOs/CTOs and business leaders.
• Own end-to-end technical solution for complex AI platforms.
• Define architectural direction for multi-agent ecosystems and governance.
• Lead architecture workshops with client execs and engineering teams.
• Produce authoritative architecture artifacts (ADRs, reference architectures).
• Represent the firm externally through publications and conference engagements.

Skills

AI architecture

Generative AI

LLM & Gen AI

Cloud platforms

Job description

Accenture Middle East seeks a Lead or Principal AI Architect to serve as the definitive technical authority on AI architecture in client engagements and across the practice. You will own the end-to-end architecture of advanced AI platforms, spanning generative AI, agentic systems, and classical ML, ensuring alignment with business objectives and enterprise-grade standards.

You will collaborate with CIOs, CTOs, and senior leaders to shape the enterprise AI strategy, set governance, security, and