Senior AI & Data Cloud Architect — Hybrid Role

Enablesa Recruitment; South Africa; Hybrid; ZAR 1,100,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA is seeking a Senior Data/AI Technical Architect to partner with sales, consulting, and delivery teams in designing, governing AI, data, and cloud solutions for clients across South Africa and the Middle East & Africa. This leadership role focuses on enterprise-grade architectures for AI, analytics, data platforms, and cloud transformations.

You will guide solution architecture, pre-sales leadership, and technical governance across Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud, translating business needs

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Data Science, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, cloud architecture, data platforms, analytics, or digital transformation.
• Minimum 5 years of experience designing cloud-native solutions on Azure, AWS, and/or Google Cloud.
• Proven experience supporting pre-sales, solution consulting, business development, and complex sales pursuits.
• Deep expertise in enterprise data architectures, analytics platforms, AI/ML solutions, and cloud-native technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead pre-sales solutioning activities for AI, Data, Analytics, and Cloud opportunities, including client workshops, discovery sessions, solution shaping, proposals, RFP/RFI responses, and executive presentations
• Develop end-to-end AI and Data platform architectures leveraging Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud services
• Design scalable, secure, resilient, and cost-optimized cloud-native solutions supporting AI, Generative AI, ML, analytics, data engineering, and governance use cases
• Define target-state architectures covering data platforms, AI platforms, cloud infrastructure, networking, security, identity, observability, automation, governance, and operational excellence
• Architect modern data platforms including data lakes, lakehouses, data warehouses, streaming platforms, and real-time analytics solutions
• Design and govern enterprise AI solutions including MLOps, Generative AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), vector databases, AI governance, and responsible AI frameworks
• Provide architectural leadership for cloud migration, data modernization, application modernization, containerization, and platform transformation initiatives
• Promote IaC, platform engineering, DevOps, DataOps, and MLOps best practices using Terraform and cloud-native automation
• Collaborate with engineering, security, data, AI, and application teams to implement cloud-native architectures and automation strategies
• Drive cloud security, governance, FinOps, and responsible AI best practices across client engagements
• Perform architecture reviews and provide technical oversight throughout solution delivery
• Act as a trusted advisor to executive, business, and technical stakeholders, translating complex technical concepts into business value
• Mentor architects, consultants, and engineers while contributing to AI, Data, and Cloud capability development
• Stay current with emerging AI technologies, hyperscaler innovations, cloud-native platforms, and industry trends

Skills

Pre-sales

Solution architecture

Azure

AWS

GCP

Data platforms

MLOps

Kubernetes

Terraform

AI governance

Databricks

Databases

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Eng

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Confluent Kafka

Datadog

Grafana

Job description

NTT DATA is seeking a Senior Data/AI Technical Architect to partner with sales, consulting, and delivery teams in designing, governing AI, data, and cloud solutions for clients across South Africa and the Middle East & Africa. This leadership role focuses on enterprise-grade architectures for AI, analytics, data platforms, and cloud transformations.

You will guide solution architecture, pre-sales leadership, and technical governance across Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud, translating business needs