Strategic AI Solutions Architect | Cloud & MLOps Leader

Placements24; Stellenbosch; Hybrid; ZAR 1,200,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Executive benefits

Hybrid work model

Health & retirement benefits

Professional development

Strategic AI leadership opportunity

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking an experienced AI Solutions Architect to lead the design and implementation of intelligent systems in Stellenbosch. You will translate business needs into scalable AI architectures, leveraging cloud platforms and ML techniques to drive innovation.

This strategic role requires guiding cross-functional teams, defining AI roadmaps, evaluating technologies, and ensuring production deployment, monitoring, and maintenance of AI solutions across the organization.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in solution architecture with AI/ML and cloud platforms.
• Deep understanding of ML algorithms, data science principles, and AI use cases.
• Proven experience designing and deploying complex cloud-based solutions.
• Strong data engineering, MLOps, and CI/CD pipelines for AI.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management and technical leadership.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable, secure AI/ML solutions on cloud platforms.
• Translate business requirements into technical AI specifications.
• Define technology roadmaps for AI adoption and integration.
• Provide technical leadership to development teams.
• Evaluate AI/ML technologies, tools, and platforms.
• Ensure deployment, monitoring, and maintenance of AI in production.

Skills

AI/ML fundamentals

Cloud platforms

CI/CD for AI

MLOps

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Placements24 is seeking an experienced AI Solutions Architect to lead the design and implementation of intelligent systems in Stellenbosch. You will translate business needs into scalable AI architectures, leveraging cloud platforms and ML techniques to drive innovation.

This strategic role requires guiding cross-functional teams, defining AI roadmaps, evaluating technologies, and ensuring production deployment, monitoring, and maintenance of AI solutions across the organization.