Cross-Functional AI Solution Architect

NTT DATA, Inc.; Butlerville (IN); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA, Inc. is seeking an AI Solution Architect to design fit-for-purpose AI solutions and translate client needs into blueprints, scopes, and delivery plans.

This role partners with AI Consultants, Principal Architects, and cross-functional teams to ensure feasible, scalable architectures and well-scoped SOWs. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in solution architecture, AI/GenAI, and cloud platforms, with strong communication and collaboration skills to support pursuit-to-delivery

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.

Responsibilities

• Design AI solutions aligned to client requirements and delivery capabilities.
• Define scope, approach, solution blueprints, 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.

Skills

Solution architecture

AI/GenAI design

Presales support

Cloud knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

OpenAI

Databricks

Job description

NTT DATA, Inc. is seeking an AI Solution Architect to design fit-for-purpose AI solutions and translate client needs into blueprints, scopes, and delivery plans.

This role partners with AI Consultants, Principal Architects, and cross-functional teams to ensure feasible, scalable architectures and well-scoped SOWs. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in solution architecture, AI/GenAI, and cloud platforms, with strong communication and collaboration skills to support pursuit-to-delivery