Advisory and Professional Services Sovereign AI Enterprise Architect

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Advisory and Professional Services Sovereign AI Enterprise Architect

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is a world‑leading enterprise technology provider focused on AI, cloud, and networking. The organization acts as the global leader in delivering modern technology platforms, enabling businesses to accelerate time to value and elevate workforce skills.

• Lead end‑to‑end architecture design for sovereign AI deployments, ensuring compliance with data residency, privacy, and regulatory requirements.
• Develop scalable, secure, and robust AI/ML reference architectures, including model lifecycle management, data pipelines, inference infrastructure, and governance frameworks.
• Evaluate and select technologies, cloud/on‑prem infrastructure, and tooling aligned to sovereign and risk‑management constraints.
• Provide architectural oversight across implementation teams, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and risk mitigation strategies.
• Identify, assess, and manage risks across the AI solution lifecycle.
• Develop and implement governance frameworks that embed responsible AI principles, auditability, and continuous risk monitoring.
• Partner with security, compliance, and legal teams to ensure adherence to sovereignty mandates and enterprise risk frameworks.
• Embed security‑by‑design and risk‑by‑design in architecture, deployment and operations.
• Create architectural documentation, diagrams, and governance frameworks for AI model development, deployment and monitoring.
• Drive security‑by‑design principles into all AI components, including encryption, access control, auditing, and safe model operation.
• Partner with engineering, security, compliance, and product teams to ensure architectural integrity throughout execution.
• Lead technical reviews and guide the resolution of architectural and integration issues.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to customers—C‑suite, technical leaders, and regulatory stakeholders—helping them shape their sovereign AI strategy.
• Translate complex customer requirements into actionable architectures and solution roadmaps.
• Communicate architectural decisions and recommendations to executives, delivery teams, security, product engineers, and customers.
• Maintain tight alignment with multiple internal functions within HPE.
• Stay ahead of global developments in sovereign AI, regulation, digital‑sovereignty trends, and AI risk management.
• Contribute to thought leadership initiatives through whitepapers, presentations, and technical guidance.
• Mentor, coach, and develop solution and enterprise architects—building capability, consistency, and technical depth across locations.

• Strong demonstrated background deploying and configuring enterprise Kubernetes (Rancher RKE2, Red Hat Open Shift, CNCF Kubernetes); microk8s and kubespray should not be considered demonstrated background.
• 5+ years hands‑on Linux experience.
• Familiarity with SLURM on Kubernetes frameworks (Slinky, SUNK, etc.).
• Strong demonstrated background working with Ansible automation frameworks.
• Familiarity with leveraging REST APIs for product integrations.
• Familiarity with HPC architectures, network topologies, and high‑performance storage platforms.
• Knowledge of NVIDIA's AI Enterprise tools, specifically BCM and DCGM for deploying and managing.

• Experience with Sovereign Cloud, MLOps, or compliance‑led AI deployments.
• Familiarity with EU AI Act, GDPR, HIPAA, FedRAMP, CJIS, or related frameworks.
• Background in professional services, consulting, or large‑scale transformation programs.
• Previous experience building a new sales motion or launching a net‑new offering.

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