Senior AI Platform Architect & Strategy Lead

Accenture Middle East; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 400,000 - 720,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Middle East is seeking an AI Architecture Senior Manager to lead strategy, design, and implementation of enterprise AI platforms. You will define target-state AI architecture, drive technology decisions, and establish scalable, secure foundations enabling enterprise-wide AI adoption.

You will guide teams on Generative AI, LLMs, and multi-modal models, while partnering with stakeholders to ensure governance, risk management, and responsible AI practices across cloud environments.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in AI Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Data Platforms, Cloud Architecture, or related technology leadership roles.
• Proven experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale AI/ML platforms and advanced AI solutions.
• Deep understanding of Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), multi-modal models, and AI ecosystem technologies.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud and their AI/ML services.
• Expertise in MLOps, AI platform engineering, model deployment, monitoring, and operationalization.
• Experience implementing AI security, governance, compliance, and Responsible AI frameworks.
• Strong architecture leadership experience with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and technology strategy.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve enterprise AI architecture strategies, frameworks, and reference architectures, including Generative AI, LLMs, and multi-modal AI solutions.
• Assess emerging AI technologies, platforms, and architectural patterns, providing leadership on technology selection and adoption.
• Develop and execute AI transformation roadmaps that establish enterprise AI foundations and long-term scalability.
• Design and operationalize end-to-end AI platforms supporting model development, deployment, monitoring, governance, and lifecycle management.
• Lead the integration of AI/ML technologies across data platforms, model ecosystems, MLOps, cloud infrastructure, security, and governance frameworks.
• Architect and build custom AI platform components to address complex business and technical requirements.
• Optimize compute infrastructure, model-serving environments, and distributed AI workloads for scalability, performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Establish enterprise AI operational standards, including observability, monitoring, performance management, and platform resilience.
• Implement Responsible AI, security privacy, risk management, and compliance controls across AI solutions and platforms.
• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to define AI governance models, architecture standards, and best practices.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to architecture, engineering, and data teams throughout AI initiatives.

Skills

AI architecture

Enterprise architecture

Data platforms

Cloud architecture

MLOps

Security & governance

Stakeholder leadership

Technology strategy

AI governance

Tools

Kubernetes

Containerization

Distributed computing

Azure

AWS

Google Cloud

Job description

Accenture Middle East is seeking an AI Architecture Senior Manager to lead strategy, design, and implementation of enterprise AI platforms. You will define target-state AI architecture, drive technology decisions, and establish scalable, secure foundations enabling enterprise-wide AI adoption.

You will guide teams on Generative AI, LLMs, and multi-modal models, while partnering with stakeholders to ensure governance, risk management, and responsible AI practices across cloud environments.