AI Solution Architect — Cross-Functional Delivery Leader

NTT DATA, Inc.; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 37,000 - 68,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA is seeking an AI Architect - Cross Functional to design fit-for-purpose AI solutions aligned with client requirements and delivery standards. The role coordinates with AI consultants, principal architects, and delivery teams to translate needs into blueprints, estimates, and phased plans.

Responsibilities include defining scope, building work estimates, shaping MVP-to-scale paths, and supporting SOW development.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in solution architecture, technology consulting, software engineering, data engineering, systems integration, presales, or delivery roles.
• 3+ years of experience designing or delivering AI, data, analytics, ML, GenAI, agentic AI, or automation solutions.
• 1+ year of hands-on or solutioning experience with GenAI, LLMs, RAG, AI agents, or enterprise AI platforms.
• Experience producing solution blueprints, work estimates, delivery plans, staffing models, assumptions, dependencies, SOW inputs, and pricing or commercial inputs.
• Working knowledge of cloud, data, integration, application architecture, security, responsible AI, governance, and operational support considerations.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.

Responsibilities

• Design AI solutions aligned to client requirements, NTT DATA standards, and delivery capabilities.
• Define scope, approach, solution blueprints, technical architectures, assumptions, dependencies, risks, and success criteria.
• Build work estimates across roles, effort, skills, locations, tooling, platforms, and delivery dependencies.
• Define workplan timelines, delivery phases, milestones, and MVP-to-scale implementation paths.
• Partner with delivery, finance, and commercial teams to shape pricing inputs, deal economics, margin assumptions, and commercial options.
• Support SOW development by defining scope boundaries, deliverables, acceptance criteria, dependencies, and change-control considerations.
• Validate feasibility, implementation approach, resourcing model, integration complexity, data readiness, security, governance, and operational support requirements.
• Incorporate partner platforms and models into solution designs where relevant.
• Support technical Q&A, client demos, solution walkthroughs, proposal defense, and transition from pursuit to delivery.
• Contribute reusable estimates, patterns, BOMs, workplans, solution artifacts, and lessons learned into the global AI GTM knowledge base.

Skills

Solution architecture

AI/GenAI design

Presales & delivery

Cloud architecture

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

OpenAI

Databricks

Job description

NTT DATA is seeking an AI Architect - Cross Functional to design fit-for-purpose AI solutions aligned with client requirements and delivery standards. The role coordinates with AI consultants, principal architects, and delivery teams to translate needs into blueprints, estimates, and phased plans.

Responsibilities include defining scope, building work estimates, shaping MVP-to-scale paths, and supporting SOW development.