NLP AI Solutions Architect - Lead AI Projects

Placements24; Kempton Park; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Medical aid

Retirement fund

Learning opportunities

Conferences access

Challenging projects

Career progression

Job summary

Placements24 in Gauteng seeks an experienced AI Solutions Architect specializing in NLP to design, develop and deploy transformative NLP-driven systems from our Tembisa office. You will lead end-to-end AI projects, define architectures and guide cross-functional teams to deliver scalable language solutions.

The ideal candidate has 4+ years in AI/ML with NLP, strong Python skills, and hands-on cloud experience (AWS/Azure/GCP).

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Architect end-to-end AI solutions with NLP tech.
• Develop NLP models for sentiment analysis, summarization, translation, and QA.
• Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and engineers on roadmaps.
• Evaluate AI/ML tools, platforms, and frameworks.
• Ensure scalability, performance, and reliability of deployed AI solutions.
• Provide technical leadership to development teams.
• Stay current with NLP advancements.
• Develop proof-of-concepts to demonstrate NLP value.
• Translate business needs into technical specs for AI systems.
• Document architectural designs and technical solutions clearly.

Skills

NLP expertise

Python

ML algorithms

Deep learning

Cloud platforms

Software architecture

Communication skills

Requirements translation

Team collaboration

Delivery of AI projects

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in CS/CL

Tools

NLTK

SpaCy

Hugging Face

Transformers

Job description

Placements24 in Gauteng seeks an experienced AI Solutions Architect specializing in NLP to design, develop and deploy transformative NLP-driven systems from our Tembisa office. You will lead end-to-end AI projects, define architectures and guide cross-functional teams to deliver scalable language solutions.

The ideal candidate has 4+ years in AI/ML with NLP, strong Python skills, and hands-on cloud experience (AWS/Azure/GCP).