AI Architect: Lead GenAI & Enterprise AI Solutions

NTT America, Inc.; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA seeks an AI Architect to lead AI projects from conception through deployment for clients across industries in Charlotte, NC. The role blends hands‑on development with technical leadership.

You will design major AI components, mentor engineers, and drive design decisions while aligning with enterprise data, security, and governance standards. This is a hands-on role with roughly 70% coding work and 30% architecture, servicing multi‑cloud and on‑prem deployments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, data science, information systems, or a related technical discipline.
• 8+ years in software engineering, cloud, data engineering, AI/ML, architecture, or enterprise technology delivery.
• 4+ years designing and delivering production AI or ML solutions.
• 1+ years delivering production Generative AI or LLM‑based systems, including LLM APIs, RAG, embeddings, vector and graph‑based retrieval, evaluation, guardrails, and agentic workflows.
• 5+ years in software engineering with professional‑level proficiency in at least one mainstream language — Python, Java, C#, C++, TypeScript/JavaScript, Go, or equivalent.
• 3+ years delivering technical design and implementation of significant components in complex enterprise environments.
• 2+ years architecting AI solutions across more than one deployment model and CI/CD, IaC, and DevOps tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI projects from conception through deployment, owning design and delivery for the workstreams you are accountable for.
• Translate business challenges into AI solution designs, and evaluate business impact and ROI of approaches.
• Design and implement major components of enterprise AI solutions across applications, data, AI/ML, and infrastructure.
• Design and build AI solution patterns across ML and GenAI — LLM apps, retrieval‑augmented generation, agents, orchestration, embeddings, vector/graph retrieval, model integrations, and evaluation.
• Conduct data preprocessing, feature engineering, and dataset preparation for AI workloads.
• Build prototypes, proofs of concept, reference implementations, and production‑ready AI services.
• Optimize AI models and inference workloads for performance, scalability, and cost across distributed computing frameworks and AI‑optimized hardware.

Skills

AI architecture

Generative AI

LLM / RAG

Cloud architecture

Data engineering

DevOps / MLOps

Solutions design

Python/Java

REST / gRPC APIs

Security by design

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Master's degree in AI/ML

Data science advanced degree

Tools

LLM APIs

RAG techniques

Embeddings

Vector databases

Knowledge graphs

GPU/accelerator infra

Job description

NTT DATA seeks an AI Architect to lead AI projects from conception through deployment for clients across industries in Charlotte, NC. The role blends hands‑on development with technical leadership.

You will design major AI components, mentor engineers, and drive design decisions while aligning with enterprise data, security, and governance standards. This is a hands-on role with roughly 70% coding work and 30% architecture, servicing multi‑cloud and on‑prem deployments.