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Senior AI Solutions Architect (Japanese-speaker)

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3 days ago
Remote, Malaysia or Petaling Jaya, MalaysiaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Act as the technical and delivery interlock for assigned AI opportunities from intake through solution approval, contracting, and handover.
  • Lead client discovery and translate business problems, requirements, data landscapes, and outcomes into actionable technical and delivery requirements.
  • Shape end-to-end AI architectures across application, model, data, integration, infrastructure, and security domains.
  • Evaluate AI models, cloud services, orchestration frameworks, and third-party technologies for cost, performance, scalability, security, and delivery complexity.
  • Define secure integration, functional and non-functional requirements, data governance, and responsible AI requirements.
  • Develop and review proposals, statements of work, scope, deliverables, milestones, assumptions, dependencies, acceptance criteria, and client responsibilities.
  • Validate estimates, pricing, resource models, third-party costs, contribution, margin, contingency, and delivery plans.
  • Lead deal assurance and governance, identifying technical, data, security, privacy, legal, commercial, and delivery risks.
  • Develop or coordinate prototypes and proofs of concept to validate model performance, data, integration, security, scalability, latency, and cost assumptions.
  • Lead transition and handover to delivery while maintaining the approved architecture, scope, commercial baseline, resource plan, risks, and client commitments.
  • Create reusable AI architectures, delivery patterns, prototypes, estimation models, and proposal assets while coaching regional teams.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in computer science, engineering, data science, information systems, business, or a related field.
  • Minimum five years of experience in enterprise solution architecture, technical consulting, pre-sales, or delivery while engaging with senior clients.
  • Business-level Japanese language ability at minimum JLPT N2 or native proficiency.
  • Business-level English language ability.
  • Advanced enterprise solution architecture knowledge across application, integration, data, infrastructure, cloud, and security domains.
  • Strong understanding of AI, generative AI, and agentic AI patterns, including model selection and evaluation, RAG, prompting, grounding, data pipelines, APIs, and vector databases.
  • Experience designing or validating enterprise AI and generative AI solutions, including prototypes and enterprise-platform or data integrations.
  • Experience with major cloud platforms and their AI, data, integration, and security services.
  • Experience defining delivery scope, work breakdown structures, resource models, estimates, delivery plans, commercial assumptions, statements of work, and technical or delivery risk controls.
  • Understanding of software engineering, DevOps, MLOps, LLMOps, security, privacy, compliance, data governance, and responsible AI.
  • Strong client-facing consulting, communication, stakeholder-management, analytical, commercial, and decision-making skills.
  • Relevant Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, or Google Cloud Platform cloud or AI certification is preferred.
  • TOGAF or other enterprise or solution architecture certification is advantageous; AI, security, privacy, agile, project, or service-management certifications are beneficial.
  • Experience with regulated environments or AI managed services, MLOps, and LLMOps is advantageous.

Benefits

  • Remote working arrangement.
  • Opportunity to work on enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, data, and digital infrastructure solutions for major clients.
  • NTT DATA promotes diversity, inclusion, responsible innovation, knowledge sharing, and professional growth.

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Solutions Engineering
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