AI & Digital Systems Architect
Hitachi, Ltd.2 months ago
Västerås, SwedenStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and govern end-to-end architectures for AI-enabled products, digital solutions, and engineering workflows across OT, edge, cloud, data, and enterprise environments.
- Establish AI architecture standards, reference architectures, reusable design patterns, and scalable solution practices.
- Identify, prioritize, and deliver high-value AI use cases with business, product, and engineering stakeholders.
- Drive AI integration from proof of concept through industrialization, deployment, and adoption across engineering, operations, service, and digital processes.
- Architect AI capabilities for industrial control systems, automation solutions, HMI/SCADA applications, edge devices, and digital products.
- Define data, knowledge, and platform architectures using data platforms, lakehouses, vector databases, knowledge graphs, and digital twins.
- Establish MLOps and LLMOps practices for deployment, monitoring, testing, evaluation, lifecycle management, and continuous improvement.
- Ensure AI solutions meet security, privacy, reliability, explainability, compliance, and responsible AI governance requirements.
- Design integration patterns, APIs, and data flows connecting OT systems, engineering tools, enterprise applications, and cloud services.
- Act as the technical authority for AI and digital systems architecture, mentor teams, and align strategy across software, data, cloud, cybersecurity, and business functions.
Requirements
- PhD or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Control Systems, or a related field.
- At least 10 years of experience in software, systems, data, AI/ML, industrial automation, or mission-critical digital platforms.
- Strong expertise in enterprise and systems architecture, software lifecycle management, data architectures, AI/ML engineering, and industrial automation.
- Proven experience defining end-to-end architectures and delivering AI-enabled solutions from concept and prototyping through scalable production.
- Hands-on experience with AI/ML, Generative AI, LLMs, RAG, knowledge graphs, agentic AI, and integrating AI capabilities into applications, platforms, and industrial products.
- Deep understanding of MLOps/LLMOps, model lifecycle management, evaluation frameworks, observability, governance, explainability, and responsible AI.
- Strong background in data products, pipelines, lakehouse and streaming solutions, time-series data, vector databases, data governance, and lineage.
- Experience with cloud-native and distributed architectures, containers, orchestration, APIs, event-driven systems, microservices, and hybrid or edge deployments.
- Knowledge of OT/IT integration, SCADA, HMI, PLC/DCS, digital twins, PLM, ERP, simulation, analytics, and workflow platforms.
- Proficiency in Python, modern AI/ML frameworks, and cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Familiarity with TOGAF, ArchiMate, C4, cybersecurity, data protection, regulatory compliance, and engineering tools such as MATLAB/Simulink or PSCAD is advantageous.
Benefits
- Full-time, non-remote role located in Västerås, Sweden, with hybrid work and allowances for setting up a home workplace subject to manager agreement.
- Collective agreement, occupational pension, salary-exchange possibility, group life insurance, and additional insurance.
- Flex-time and shortened working hours through a time bank.
- Health and wellness allowance, health insurance, dental, spectacles, and contact-lens allowance.
- Psychological support program and supplementary parental-leave compensation.
- Training, education, internal career opportunities in Sweden and globally, and an employee benefits portal with discounts and perks.
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About Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi, Ltd. builds industrial, energy, rail, and digital systems for governments and enterprises, combining operational technology with IT, cloud, and data infrastructure services. Its portfolio spans power grids, factory automation, data centers, rail systems, and consulting delivered through units such as Hitachi Vantara, Hitachi Rail, and Hitachi Energy. Founded in 1910 and headquartered in Tokyo, it is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and operates globally across critical infrastructure markets.