Client-Facing AI Architect & Data Leader (APAC)

CFGI (SINGAPORE) PRIVATE LIMITED

Singapore

Hybrid

SGD 150,000 - 230,000

Full time

5 days ago
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Job summary

CFGI (SINGAPORE) PRIVATE LIMITED is building its Data & AI practice in Singapore and seeks a hands-on Artificial Intelligence Architect to own the solution architecture of client AI builds and lead the team’s technical design.

As the team’s lead architect and client-facing technical lead, you will design reference architectures, determine when agentic approaches add value, set security and governance standards, own model and vendor strategy, and guide engineers toward scalable, auditable

Qualifications

  • 5–10 years of experience in technical delivery, solution architecture, enterprise data/AI architecture, cloud architecture, and related technology consulting.
  • Hands-on experience architecting production generative AI and agentic systems, including orchestration and retrieval/knowledge architectures.
  • Experience serving as a client-facing technical lead translating business requirements into technical architecture.

Responsibilities

  • Own the solution architecture of the practice’s client AI work and lead the team’s technical design from strategy and use-case definition through production deployment.
  • Translate client strategies and use cases into build-ready reference architectures covering components, integration patterns, data flows, model choices, security controls, governance requirements, and delivery approaches.
  • Determine when agentic architecture genuinely adds value over conventional or deterministic solutions and establish appropriate design patterns for each.
  • Design reusable agent-first and enterprise AI reference architectures, including multi-agent orchestration, agent-to-agent and Model Context Protocol tool layers, model gateways, retrieval and knowledge architectures, and integration patterns.
  • Own model and vendor strategy and third-party model risk, including the approach to model selection across frontier and open-weight providers.
  • Evaluate platforms, models, and tooling based on capability, cost, latency, context requirements, data residency, security, portability, and business needs.
  • Design for model and vendor provenance, contractual controls, portability, and exit so that clients can make defensible technology decisions without unnecessary vendor lock-in.
  • Embed security and controls into architecture from the outset, including prompt-injection defenses, least-privilege agent identity, tool authorization, sandboxing, human approval gates, data-leak prevention, memory integrity, data sovereignty, auditability, and evidence requirements.
  • Design architectures capable of satisfying governance, control, and audit expectations of regulated clients, boards, security teams, and regulators.
  • Set and maintain the technical standard for the practice, including architecture principles, design patterns, non-functional requirements, technical assurance, and design-review processes across engagements.
  • Review and assure engineering work while guiding AI engineers, data engineers, and data scientists toward consistent standards.
  • Make critical build-versus-buy, platform, model-selection, integration, data, and architecture decisions across client engagements.
  • Serve as the client-facing technical lead and run architecture sessions with CTOs, CDOs, enterprise architects, security and risk leaders, and executive buyers.
  • Translate complex business problems into governed technical solutions and communicate architecture credibly to both technical teams and executives.
  • Contribute to proposals and pursuits by shaping the technical approach, delivery plan, architecture, and risk position with leadership.
  • Build reusable practice assets, including reference architectures, architecture patterns, technical standards, methodologies, and accelerators.
  • Mentor the engineering team and raise the technical bar as the Data & AI practice grows.
  • Work with partners and CFGI community on enterprise-level technical and architecture decisions.

Skills

Artificial intelligence architecture
Client-facing lead
Cloud architecture
Enterprise architecture
Agentic AI systems
Security & governance

Tools

LangGraph
CrewAI
AutoGen
Microsoft Agent Framework
Azure OpenAI

Job description

CFGI (SINGAPORE) PRIVATE LIMITED is building its Data & AI practice in Singapore and seeks a hands-on Artificial Intelligence Architect to own the solution architecture of client AI builds and lead the team’s technical design.

As the team’s lead architect and client-facing technical lead, you will design reference architectures, determine when agentic approaches add value, set security and governance standards, own model and vendor strategy, and guide engineers toward scalable, auditable

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