PwC

AI Platform Architect

PwC
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19 hours ago
Bucharest, RomaniaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Define reference platforms, environment topology, network patterns, identity, secrets, and access controls.
  • Design model access, compute, storage, vector services, orchestration, gateways, and shared platform services.
  • Support cloud, sovereign, edge, and on-premises deployment choices for client constraints.
  • Define non-functional requirements for availability, performance, resilience, scalability, and cost.
  • Create reusable landing patterns, templates, and platform guardrails for delivery squads.
  • Partner with the MLOps Engineer on environment automation, observability, and release management.
  • Design hybrid inference patterns and secure model, agent, and tool service integrations.
  • Support proposals and client workshops, contribute reusable methods and code, and coach colleagues.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in cloud platforms, infrastructure, platform engineering, or architecture.
  • Deep understanding of containers, Kubernetes, networking, identity, automation, data services, and AI runtimes.
  • Experience with at least one major cloud platform and hybrid integration patterns.
  • Strong Infrastructure as Code, DevSecOps, and platform-governance orientation.
  • Deep experience with an enterprise AI platform such as Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Databricks, or an equivalent platform.
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes platforms, Infrastructure as Code tools, and GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps pipelines.
  • Experience securing model, agent, and tool services through API gateways, private endpoints, service identities, secrets platforms, and policy enforcement.
  • Ability to design hybrid inference using managed endpoints and self-hosted runtimes.
  • Knowledge of vector, search, state, telemetry, and enterprise monitoring services.
  • Ability to design for model or framework portability and avoid unnecessary vendor lock-in.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement indicated by the #LI-Hybrid designation.
  • Opportunities to collaborate with AI transformation, cloud, cyber, risk, Responsible AI, client, and implementation teams.
  • Opportunities to contribute to reusable methods, code, assets, lessons learned, and continuous learning.

Tech Stack

DatabricksElasticsearchGitHub ActionsKubernetesOpenShiftPostgreSQLRedisTerraform

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About PwC

10,000+ employees

PwC is a global network of professional services firms providing assurance, tax, and advisory work for businesses and public-sector clients. It sells project-based and managed consulting, audit, and deals services, and implements and integrates business applications. Formed in 1998 by the merger of Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand, it is headquartered in London and is one of the Big Four accounting firms.

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