AI Solution Architect📣 Job Ad

About the Role

Systems Limited is seeking an AI Solution Architect to join their team in Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves owning the architecture of AI-native applications, ensuring seamless integration across AI capabilities, applications, data, and infrastructure. The position requires over 10 years of experience in architecting production systems, with strong expertise in AI, cloud platforms, ML engineering, and enterprise modernization.

Key Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end architecture for AI-native applications, covering integration, data flow, security, and cost.
• Design AI APIs and services, defining how AI capabilities integrate with applications.
• Establish architecture standards, reference patterns, and best practices.
• Lead architecture reviews and identify technical, integration, scalability, and modernization risks.
• Architect production ML pipelines, model serving, retraining, and high-throughput systems.
• Define ML engineering standards for testing, versioning, and CI/CD.
• Lead root-cause analysis for critical production ML issues.
• Drive legacy-to-AI-native modernization initiatives.
• Partner with QA/AI Assurance teams to ensure architectural testability.
• Mentor AI Engineers and Developers on architecture and design standards.
• Present and defend architecture decisions to client technical leadership.
• Balance technical best practices with project timelines and delivery requirements.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in production system architecture, including 3+ years in AI-native application architecture.
• 5+ years of production-scale ML engineering experience.
• Strong expertise in Azure AI Foundry, AWS Bedrock, and Google Vertex AI.
• Experience with Azure ML, AWS SageMaker, and Vertex AI Prediction.
• Strong knowledge of APIs, microservices, event-driven architecture, API gateways, service mesh, and secure integrations.
• Deep understanding of AI architecture challenges including latency, non-determinism, scalability, and cost optimization.
• Experience in legacy modernization and AI-native transformation.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with LangChain, Hugging Face, knowledge graphs, and semantic layers.

Essential Attributes

• Strong architecture documentation and ADR writing skills.
• Excellent stakeholder management and client-facing communication skills.
• Strong leadership, mentoring, and technical decision-making abilities.

Work Type

This is a full-time position based in Saudi Arabia. Salary details will be discussed during the interview process.