Principal AI Domain Architect & Technical Leader

NTT America, Inc.; Plano (TX); Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 309,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA seeks a Principal AI Domain Technical Leader to serve as the senior technical authority for North America AI Delivery across major industry verticals. You will own the technical answer on strategic pursuits, shape architectures, and provide assurance across engagements, while mentoring architects and engineers through complex transformations.

In this billable leadership role, you will guide two to three client transformations, present to CTOs and chief architects, and contribute to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline or equivalent professional experience.
• 12+ years in enterprise technology delivery, with 5+ years leading architecture or engineering on AI, data or platform transformations that reached production.
• 5+ years across cloud, data, and AI architecture, with recent hands‑on exposure to GenAI/agentic architectures, MLOps/LLMOps, security, and responsible AI.
• 5+ years experience mentoring senior technical staff in a matrixed, globally distributed delivery organization.
• Deep, current knowledge of the vertical: its systems of record, data landscape, regulatory and security requirements, and the technology partners that matter in it.
• Demonstrated ownership of the technical solution on major pursuits: feasibility, architecture, estimation and technical risk, working alongside sales and delivery leadership.
• Experience providing architecture and engineering assurance across multiple concurrent engagements, and leading technical recovery on at least one engagement in difficulty.
• Track record of creating reusable patterns, reference architectures or accelerators that other teams adopted.
• Credibility with client CTOs, chief architects and engineering leaders; able to explain a modern AI operating model in the industry's language.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to say no to an unsound commitment with a better option attached.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical solution on the vertical's strategic pursuits: feasibility, architecture, delivery model, staffing shape, dependencies, technical risk and assumptions, validated with Global Demand & Solution Engineering before commitments are made.
• Lead technically on two or three strategic transformations at a time as a billable member of the engagement, at the level of architecture, integration and technical risk.
• Provide technical assurance across the vertical's engagements at checkpoints that matter solution baseline, first production release, major scope change, and any engagement in difficulty.
• Lead technical remediation on engagements when needed, with the NA Technical Lead and Global Technical or COE specialists.
• Own the vertical's reference architectures, reusable patterns and accelerators; deposit them in the Workflow Vault, keep them current and measure their adoption.

Skills

AI Architecture

Cloud Architecture

MLOps/LLMOps

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

TOGAF

Azure

AWS

Google Cloud

Job description

NTT DATA seeks a Principal AI Domain Technical Leader to serve as the senior technical authority for North America AI Delivery across major industry verticals. You will own the technical answer on strategic pursuits, shape architectures, and provide assurance across engagements, while mentoring architects and engineers through complex transformations.

In this billable leadership role, you will guide two to three client transformations, present to CTOs and chief architects, and contribute to