Artificial Intelligence Consultant

Title : AI Solution Architect

Remote (India)

FTE

Key Responsibilities:

• Design AI solutions aligned to client requirements, NTT DATA standards, and delivery capabilities.

• Define scope, approach, solution blueprints, technical architectures, assumptions, dependencies, risks, and success criteria.

• Build work estimates across roles, effort, skills, locations, tooling, platforms, and delivery dependencies.

• Define workplan timelines, delivery phases, milestones, and MVP-to-scale implementation paths.

• Partner with delivery, finance, and commercial teams to shape pricing inputs, deal economics, margin assumptions, and commercial options.

• Support SOW development by defining scope boundaries, deliverables, acceptance criteria, dependencies, and change-control considerations.

• Validate feasibility, implementation approach, resourcing model, integration complexity, data readiness, security, governance, and operational support requirements.

• Incorporate partner platforms and models into solution designs where relevant.

• Support technical Q&A, client demos, solution walkthroughs, proposal defense, and transition from pursuit to delivery.

• Contribute reusable estimates, patterns, BOMs, workplans, solution artifacts, and lessons learned into the global AI GTM knowledge base.

Success Measures:

• Pursuit deal volume, measured as total TCV value of AI deals where the AI Solution Architect supported.

• Pursuit win rate for AI deals where the AI Solution Architect supported.

• Utilization or billability against target.

• Estimate quality, solution feasibility, commercial accuracy, and successful handoff into delivery.

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in solution architecture, technology consulting, software engineering, data engineering, systems integration, presales, or delivery roles.

• 3+ years of experience designing or delivering AI, data, analytics, ML, GenAI, agentic AI, or automation solutions.

• 1+ year of hands-on or solutioning experience with GenAI, LLMs, RAG, AI agents, or enterprise AI platforms.

• Experience producing solution blueprints, work estimates, delivery plans, staffing models, assumptions, dependencies, SOW inputs, and pricing or commercial inputs.

• Working knowledge of cloud, data, integration, application architecture, security, responsible AI, governance, and operational support considerations.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with Azure, AWS, GCP, OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, Google/Gemini, Databricks, Snowflake, vector databases, orchestration frameworks, and MLOps/LLMOps tooling.

• Experience supporting large pursuits, proposal development, pricing reviews, or delivery mobilization.

• AI/ML, cloud, data platform, architecture, or security certifications.

• Strong analytical thinking, commercial judgment, written communication, cross-functional collaboration, and client-facing presentation skills.

• Ability to travel as required for client and internal engagements.