Advanced AI Architect

Accenture; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 87,400 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Competitive salary

Flexible work arrangements

Job summary

A global professional services company is seeking an Advanced AI Architect to design and deliver cutting-edge AI architecture for comprehensive platforms and solutions. You will lead workshops, collaborate with clients, and implement innovative generative AI solutions that enhance operational efficiency. The role necessitates a deep understanding of AI technologies and considerable experience in cloud services. This position will significantly impact the future of enterprise AI systems, ensuring they deliver substantial business value.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years of experience with scaled Agentic AI and Generative AI solutions.
• 5+ years designing and operationalizing AI/ML solutions on public cloud platforms.
• Expert-level understanding of key AI technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI architecture workshops with clients and internal teams.
• Design and document AI solutions and security architecture.
• Implement and optimize AI governance and observability solutions.

Skills

AI architecture design

Generative AI solutions

Cloud-native services

Multi-agent architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

Tools

Cloud platforms

AI frameworks

Job description

We Are

We a re entering a transformative era where Data & AI are reshaping industries, work, and society. Accenture is leading this evolution with a bold vision and a $3B investment in Data & AI. Our global team of 45,000+ AI professionals is driving innovation at scale—powered by deep expertise , strategic partnerships, and a commitment to delivering industry-defining solutions.

You Are:

As a n Advanced AI Architect, you will be responsible for designing and delivering full stack AI architecture for a n AI platform, AI product, or AI engagement on public, private or sovereign clouds . You’ll architect enterprise grade AI platforms and solutions for scalability, security, governance and performance that meet our client’s business needs . In that role you will be using the latest innovations in AI Agents, Generative AI , Foundation Models , Knowledge & Data Engineering . You will be designing and implementing cutting edge proof-of-concepts and pilots to demonstrate the capabilities of AI technologies to solve complex business problems and for enterprise readiness . This is a high-impact role where your contributions will shape the future of AI systems in the enterprise to deliver unprecedented business value .

The Work

Strategy & Planning

• Lead AI architecture & technical design workshops with client and Accenture teams
• Collaborate with client teams to finalize architectural requirements for AI solutions .
• Evaluate , rationalize and select technologies required for putting together the full stack of an AI platform or AI system
• Estimate design alternatives, effort, time line , roadmap for deploying AI solutions .
• Develop TCO models and assess financial viability of AI platforms and solutions .

Architecture & Design

• Design and document architectural alternatives, technology choices and recommendations
• Identify , define , facilitate alignment of key architectural decisions required for AI solutions
• Design and document multi-agent architecture blueprints , AI security architecture blueprints , AI runtime architecture blueprints , AI governance solution blueprints , AI DevOps architecture blueprints, AI infrastructure architecture blueprints , multi-agent solution blueprints , knowledge and data layer blueprints.
• Design the knowledge architecture consisting of knowledge graphs , semantic layers for enabling AI Agents.
• Incorporate AI Security in platforms and solutions.
• Design and document solutions for AI security, governance , observability .
• Design and document AgentOps and LLM Ops solutions .
• Recommend design optimizations and improvements for performance, cost, reliability , trust .

Implementation

• Implement AgentOps / LLMOps , AI Governance , AI Security, AI Observability solutions
• Design/Build reusable AI components, AI agents and solution patterns for Advanced AI systems and platforms.
• Troubleshoot, Analyze and optimize performance of AI systems , AI agents and platforms

Travel may be required for this role . The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.

Here’s what you need

• Minimum of 2 year s of experience designing and implementing scaled Agentic AI and Generative AI solutions that are in operations .
• Minimum of 2 year of experience in designing and implementing Agentic AI and Generative AI platforms and frameworks used by multiple AI solutions
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in designing , engineering & operationalizing large scale AI/ML solutions on at least one of the large public cloud platforms using latest cloud native AI services and frameworks, open-source technologies and 3 rd party tools .
• Minimum 5 years of ex pert level understanding of key AI technologies from public cloud providers, open source and 3 rd party technologies
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate’s Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience)

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below.We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.

Information on benefits is here.

Role Location Annual Salary Range

California $94,400 to $293,800

Cleveland $87,400 to $235,000

Colorado $94,400 to $253,800

District of Columbia $100,500 to $270,300

Illinois $87,400 to $253,800

Maryland $94,400 to $253,800

Massachusetts $94,400 to $270,300

Minnesota $94,400 to $253,800

New York/New Jersey $87,400 to $293,800

Washington $100,500 to $270,300

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