Senior AI Architect
Senior AI Architect
- Location Marienheide
- Expertise Cloud AI
- Job Type Permanent
- Salary € 130,000 per annum
Company introduction
Join an established international manufacturing organisation investing in an enterprise-wide AI transformation. The business has identified approximately 120 potential AI use cases across functions including Finance, Sales, Marketing and Purchasing, and is now building the internal technical capability to take these opportunities into production.
Why this role is interesting
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Join an established international manufacturing organisation investing in an enterprise-wide AI transformation. The business has identified approximately 120 potential AI use cases across functions including Finance, Sales, Marketing and Purchasing, and is now building the internal technical capability to take these opportunities into production.
Why this role is interesting
- Greenfield ownership: Define the company\'s enterprise AI architecture and influence its future technology stack.
- Direct business impact: Evaluate AI opportunities across multiple departments and deliver solutions with measurable commercial value.
- Strategic and hands-on: Combine enterprise architecture, technology selection and practical AI implementation.
- Long-term influence: Help establish internal AI capabilities, governance standards and reusable technical foundations.
- Define enterprise-wide AI architecture, technology standards, governance principles and integration approaches.
- Identify and evaluate AI opportunities, design scalable solutions involving generative AI, AI agents and intelligent automation, and oversee their technical implementation.
- Select suitable platforms and technologies, balancing business value, scalability, security and cost-effectiveness.
- Collaborate with management, business departments, internal IT teams and external partners to integrate AI solutions into existing enterprise systems.
- Essential: Senior experience architecting complex software, data or AI solutions, including demonstrable hands-on AI implementation.
- Essential: Strong knowledge of generative AI, LLMs, AI platforms, integration architectures and modern cloud/data technologies.
- Essential: Ability to translate business requirements into secure, scalable and commercially viable technical solutions.
- Essential: Excellent German and English communication skills; experience with SAP, Microsoft 365 or enterprise manufacturing environments is advantageous.
- Salary up to €130,000.
- Remote-first working throughout Germany, with typically two NRW office days per month after onboarding.
- Significant ownership of a new enterprise AI programme and freedom to influence architectural decisions.
- Collaborative working culture, flat hierarchies and direct involvement with IT leadership.
