AI Architect

We are currently seeking a Distinguished AI Engineer to join our team in Jersey City, New Jersey (US-NJ), United States (US).

• Set the architecture, engineering standards, platform strategy, and technical governance for enterprise AI and GenAI capabilities. This role guides senior engineering teams and ensures AIRP is scalable, reusable, observable, cost-efficient, secure, and compliant, while remaining AWS-first today and cloud-agnostic by design.

• Client-specific emphasis

• Own the cloud-agnostic AI blueprint while leveraging AWS as the current implementation platform.

• Define reusable Terraform/IaC and Dev Ops pipeline patterns that can be federated across multiple AIRP use cases.

• Ensure architecture supports AI for business, AI for engineering, and responsible citizen development without fragmenting controls.

• Target-state enterprise AI architecture, AIRP reference patterns, reusable platform capabilities, and guardrails.

• LLMOps, AI gateways, model-serving strategy, evaluation platforms, observability, governance, and operating standards.

• Technical assurance for high-risk or high-impact AI initiatives across banking use cases.

• Define target-state architecture for AIRP, LLM platforms, model hubs, AI gateways, RAG services, agent frameworks, orchestration layers, and model-serving infrastructure.

• Establish enterprise standards for AI SDLC, LLMOps, MLOps, evaluation, release management, operational resilience, and production support.

• Create AWS implementation patterns that align with a cloud-agnostic blueprint and minimize unnecessary vendor lock-in.

• Define standards for Terraform modules, reusable IaC templates, environment strategy, pipeline promotion, approvals, observability, secrets, rollback, and operational controls.

• Guide architecture for secure, scalable, and cost-efficient inference across cloud, hybrid, private, and containerized environments.

• Define guardrail patterns for hallucination mitigation, bias monitoring, harmful-content controls, prompt injection defense, data leakage prevention, and human oversight.

• Lead design reviews for critical AI systems and provide technical assurance to architecture, risk, security, and governance forums.

• Partner with cybersecurity, risk, compliance, legal, audit, product, business, and citizen-development enablement teams.

• Assess emerging AI technologies and recommend adoption based on business value, maturity, risk, cost, portability, and regulatory fit.

• 10+ years in AI/ML systems, distributed systems, enterprise architecture, or platform engineering.

• Deep experience with LLMs, RAG, embeddings, model serving, AI orchestration, evaluation frameworks, and AI infrastructure.

• Proven track record defining architecture and technical standards across multiple engineering teams.

• Strong AWS cloud architecture experience or comparable hyperscaler depth, with clear ability to design cloud-agnostic AI platform patterns.

• Experience shaping Terraform/IaC standards, Dev Ops pipelines, secure deployment patterns, observability, resiliency, and platform operating models.

• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and operate across business, technology, risk, compliance, security, data, and architecture forums.

• Global bank, fintech, financial-services, or regulated-enterprise platform experience.

• Experience with enterprise AI platforms, private LLM deployments, internal model hubs, AI gateways, multi-cloud AI strategy, or platform blueprint ownership.

• Familiarity with Responsible AI, model risk management, audit expectations, technology risk controls, and citizen development governance.

NTT DATA provides a reasonable range of compensation for U.S.

-based positions. The starting pay range for this role will depend on the nature of the role offered and will be [$85.12 to $95.40] . Actual compensation will depend on a number of factors, including the candidate's relevant experience, technical skills, and other qualifications.

This position may also be eligible for incentive compensation based on individual and/or company performance. If the position offered in temporary, the position will not be…