Job Title: AI Architect

Level: Senior / Principal
Employment Type: Full-time
Experience: 8+ Years
Location: Islamabad

Role Overview

We are seeking a high-level AI Architect to serve as a Senior Solution Architect for our real-time automation and intelligence ecosystem. This role is both strategic and hands-on at the architectural level, acting as a technical mentor and trusted advisor to engineering teams.

You will be responsible for defining and evolving the enterprise architecture that underpins real-time data processing, automation, and AI/ML workflows. The role requires a visionary mindset, strong problem-solving capability, and the ability to design scalable, future-ready systems that support complex, high-throughput AI use cases.

Key Responsibilities

Solution Mentorship & Technical Leadership

• Act as a technical authority and mentor for engineering teams

• Guide best practices for real-time data streaming, event-driven architectures, and low-latency processing

• Review designs and implementations to ensure architectural consistency and technical excellence

Architecture & Gap Analysis

• Analyze existing platforms to identify architectural gaps, performance bottlenecks, and scalability risks

• Design and propose robust, enterprise-grade architectural improvements

• Define target-state architectures aligned with long-term business and AI strategy

System Orchestration & Integration

• Design and oversee the integration of distributed systems, messaging platforms, and data pipelines

• Ensure seamless, reliable data flow across heterogeneous enterprise systems

• Define standards for system interoperability, resilience, and observability

AI/ML Infrastructure & Enablement

• Architect the data and compute foundations required for AI/ML workloads, including agentic workflows and real-time analytics

• Enable large-scale automation, intelligent decisioning, and near-real-time inference

• Ensure architectures support model lifecycle management, scalability, and performance

Technical Governance & Quality

• Ensure architectural designs align with industry standards, security requirements, and scalability goals

• Provide high-level design documentation, reference architectures, and technical blueprints

• Support roadmap definition and continuous architectural evolution

Technical Requirements

• Expert-level experience with distributed systems, including:

  • Real-time stream processing

  • Distributed storage platforms

  • Low-latency analytical databases

• Proven experience designing enterprise-scale, high-throughput data architectures

• Strong background in event-driven and real-time processing ecosystems

• Experience supporting AI/ML platforms, data fabrics, and automation frameworks

• Demonstrated ability to translate complex technical challenges into scalable architectural solutions

Leadership & Soft Skills

• Strong mentorship and coaching experience with senior engineering teams

• Ability to influence architectural direction across multiple teams and stakeholders

• Excellent communication skills, capable of articulating complex designs to both technical and non-technical audiences

• Strategic mindset with a focus on long-term platform evolution

Nice to Have

• Experience with cloud-native and hybrid architectures

• Exposure to MLOps, DataOps, or platform engineering practices

• Experience in regulated or large enterprise environments

Why Join

• Shape the architectural foundation of advanced AI and automation platforms

• Influence enterprise-scale technical decisions with long-term impact

• Work in a senior, high-visibility role with strong ownership and autonomy