Remote Lead AI Solutions Architect: Cloud-Native Enterprise

Placements24; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health insurance

Professional development budget

Fully remote

Job summary

Placements24 seeks an experienced Lead AI Solutions Architect to spearhead AI initiatives from a Cape Town facility and beyond. You will define the technical vision, guide cloud-native AI deployments, and mentor engineering teams across remote environments in a fast-paced tech scene.

Applicants should have 10+ years in software architecture focusing on AI/ML, with strong AWS/Azure/GCP expertise and solid leadership and stakeholder management skills. Fully remote with flexibility.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS, engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years in software architecture with AI/ML focus.
• Experience designing cloud-based AI systems on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Strong AI/ML lifecycle knowledge: data engineering, model development, MLOps, deployment.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the AI architecture strategy aligned with business goals.
• Design robust, scalable cloud-native AI solutions including ML, analytics, NLP.
• Lead technical design and implementation phases for AI projects.
• Evaluate and adopt emerging AI technologies and platforms.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate needs into AI solutions.
• Develop and maintain architectural standards and deployment best practices.

Skills

AI architecture

Cloud platforms

MLOps

NLP

Computer vision

Leadership

Stakeholder mgmt

Data engineering

Model development

Reinforcement learning

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Placements24 seeks an experienced Lead AI Solutions Architect to spearhead AI initiatives from a Cape Town facility and beyond. You will define the technical vision, guide cloud-native AI deployments, and mentor engineering teams across remote environments in a fast-paced tech scene.

Applicants should have 10+ years in software architecture focusing on AI/ML, with strong AWS/Azure/GCP expertise and solid leadership and stakeholder management skills. Fully remote with flexibility.