Lead AI Solutions Architect - From Prototypes to Production

NTT DATA, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA, Inc. is seeking a Senior AI Solutions Architect to shape and assure complex AI solutions across the opportunity-to-order lifecycle.

The role acts as the primary technical and delivery interlock between regional GTM teams and the Global AI Delivery Unit, enabling sellers and regional solution teams to access AI delivery expertise without extensive engagement of core delivery resources. The Senior AI Solutions Architect leads architecture development, prototypes and proofs of concept

Qualifications

• Advanced enterprise solution architecture knowledge across application, integration, data, infrastructure, cloud and security domains.
• Strong understanding of AI, generative AI and agentic AI solution patterns, including model selection and evaluation, RAG, prompting, grounding, data pipelines, APIs and vector databases.
• Strong knowledge of major cloud platforms and their AI, data, integration and security capabilities, with working knowledge of software engineering, DevOps, MLOps and LLMOps.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary technical and delivery interlock for assigned AI opportunities from qualified intake through solution approval, contracting and handover to delivery.
• Engage with regional GTM, sales and solution teams early in the opportunity lifecycle to understand the clients business problem, intended outcomes, technical environment, data landscape and commercial requirements.
• Assess whether the opportunity is sufficiently qualified for Global AI Delivery engagement and identify any additional information, discovery or customer validation required.
• Review use-case descriptions and business requirements to assess whether the proposed use of AI is appropriate, feasible and aligned with measurable client outcomes.
• Support structured discovery sessions with clients and internal stakeholders, translating business requirements into actionable technical and delivery requirements.
• Identify the specialist capabilities required to support the pursuit and coordinate targeted engagement from Global AI Delivery Unit, security, legal, commercial and regional delivery teams.
• Manage the involvement of delivery specialists carefully, ensuring that delivery expertise is used for material design decisions and specialist validation without drawing delivery teams unnecessarily into general pre-sales activity.
• Maintain clear communication with opportunity owners regarding solution status, outstanding decisions, risks, dependencies and readiness for assurance.

Skills

AI architecture

Pre-sales

Cloud platforms

Job description

NTT DATA, Inc. is seeking a Senior AI Solutions Architect to shape and assure complex AI solutions across the opportunity-to-order lifecycle.

The role acts as the primary technical and delivery interlock between regional GTM teams and the Global AI Delivery Unit, enabling sellers and regional solution teams to access AI delivery expertise without extensive engagement of core delivery resources. The Senior AI Solutions Architect leads architecture development, prototypes and proofs of concept