AI Solution Architect

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Responsibilities

• ▹Design and evolve the overall AI/ML architecture as an enterprise AI platform focused on Microsoft Azure
• ▹Technically lead ML pipeline projects covering training, deployment, monitoring and drift detection
• ▹Design and optimize RAG architectures, e.g. chunking, retrieval, guardrails and context orchestration
• ▹Define and evolve MLOps strategies including CI/CD for models, experiment tracking and model registry
• ▹Technically lead and coordinate interdisciplinary teams of ML/AI, LLM and MLOps engineers
• ▹Advise internal and external stakeholders on AI architectures and present technical concepts to IT leadership and business departments

Requirements

• ▹Solid experience with cloud-based AI/ML solutions, ideally on Microsoft Azure, in particular Azure Machine Learning and Azure OpenAI Service
• ▹Practical experience with MLOps concepts and tools such as MLflow, Kubeflow or Azure ML Pipelines
• ▹Experience building RAG architectures, prompt engineering and working with vector databases
• ▹Knowledge of integrating and orchestrating language models, ideally with frameworks such as LangChain or LlamaIndex
• ▹Experience with CI/CD for ML applications and very good Python skills
• ▹Hands-on experience with at least two common machine learning frameworks, e.g. scikit-learn, PyTorch or TensorFlow
• ▹Experience building enterprise architectures in cloud environments
• ▹Basic understanding of AI governance, responsible AI, and security and data protection requirements in enterprise settings
• ▹Several years of experience with ML/AI architectures or comparable technical tasks in enterprise environments
• ▹Very good German (C2 level) and good English

Nice to have

• ▹Knowledge of adjacent areas such as data platforms, containerization, container orchestration, infrastructure as code and observability (e.g. Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, Application Insights)
• ▹Experience in a technical leadership or architecture role
• ▹Azure, AWS or Google Cloud certifications
• ▹Experience in the energy or utilities sector with data-driven use cases

About the company

virtual7 is an IT service provider driving the digitalization of the public sector in Germany.