Gen AI/ML Solution Architect Director

We Are:Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments, and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth, and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent and innovation-led company with over 738,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise, and global delivery capability.There is never a typical day at Accenture, but that’s why we love it here! This is an extraordinary chance to create a rewarding career at Accenture Technology. Working in a digitally driven, innovation-led environment where you can help clients shift to the “New” using leading-edge technologies on some of the coolest projects you can imagine.The Work:You will be a value architect for mid to large-sized engagements focused on Data & AI Systems Integration, Application Development, and Data/ML Operations engagements. As a Solution Architect, you will leverage your deep solutioning/delivery experience to individually create solutions and also to develop solutions collaboratively with the client stakeholders (either advising or co-creating the solutions). As part of this role, you will/may need to:• Understand AI / Gen AI business requirements and convert them into technology requirements/use cases• Define technical architecture diagrams (input sources + chunking / embedding + applicable AI models / LLM models)• Align technology components & Accenture assets with the architecture (like Vector DB for Embedding, Azure Open AI for LLM summarization module, etc.)• Develop project estimates for implementation, assess execution risks, and develop mitigation strategies.• Conduct solution reviews with Global sales leadership, account leads, and commercial directors to bring alignment and propose optimal solutions to clients’ business problems.• Act as a bridge between sales and delivery teams• Assist in developing client-facing proposals to articulate the value proposition, methodology, technology choices, and cost-benefit analysis.• Participate in key sales pursuit meetings to represent the designed solution (architecture, estimates, staffing, etc.) in various internal and external forums, including Client presentations, Capability/delivery/sales reviews• Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business needs and client requirements.What You Need (Basic Qualifications):• Minimum of 10 years of Solutioning and Architecting experience for major cloud platforms and their AI/ML offerings (Snowflake, Databricks, AWS Sagemaker/Bedrock, GCP AI Platform/Vertex AI, and Microsoft Azure ML)• Minimum of 5 years of experience with traditional AI/ML Solutioning• Minimum of 2 years of experience working with Generative AI technologies/solutions.• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate’s Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience)Bonus Points If You Have (Preferred Qualifications):• AI/ML certification(s) from any of the MAAG Clouds / renowned 3rd party platforms• Exposure working with LLM Architecture/fine-tuning LLM’s• Strong written & verbal communicationCompensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in California, Colorado, New York or Washington as set forth below. 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