Principal AI Architect

About the Role

Takamol Holding is seeking a Principal AI Architect to join their team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time position involves leading the end-to-end AI dimension of assigned programs, from initial requirements to integration and go-live. The role requires 5-10 years of experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the AI dimension of assigned programs from requirement interpretation through architecture, build, integration, and go-live.
• Prioritize and sequence use-case roadmaps based on business value and delivery feasibility, establishing achievable delivery plans.
• Act as the primary technical point of contact in stakeholder and working sessions, building and maintaining technical credibility.
• Architect the data foundation (ingestion, storage, quality) necessary to support prioritized AI use cases.
• Select and design the AI/ML approach for each use case, such as text classification, machine translation, retrieval and similarity search, LLM-based assistants or chatbots, forecasting, and decision-support scoring, based on business value and technical feasibility.
• Design integration points into core business systems to ensure AI outputs are production-ready and directly usable in existing workflows.

Hands-On Engineering and Delivery

• Build priority models and pipelines directly, and direct any shared or contracted engineering support assigned to a program.
• Establish MLOps practices (versioning, CI/CD, monitoring) scaled appropriately to each program's requirements.
• Validate delivered models against agreed success metrics and produce evidence for stakeholder sign-off at each milestone.

Governance and Compliance

• Ensure AI components align with responsible-AI principles and data governance and privacy requirements, with built-in explainability and audit logging.
• Identify and escalate technical risks, gaps, and scope trade-offs promptly to relevant stakeholders and leadership.

Stakeholder Management

• Translate business and policy needs into scoped, deliverable technical work.
• Communicate scope, timeline, and resourcing trade-offs clearly, recommending additional resourcing when a workstream's scale requires it.

Location and Work Type

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Salary details for this role are not disclosed.