[UAE] AI Solution Architect
Role Overview
The AI Solution Architect is the technical authority for Sia's Data & AI engagements in the Middle East.
The role designs AI and agentic architectures and application modernization paths from concept to production.
Work combines hands-on technical leadership with client-facing advisory across cloud, machine learning, and generative AI.
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Role overview
The AI Solution Architect is the technical authority for Sia's Data & AI engagements in the Middle East.
The role designs AI and agentic architectures and application modernization paths from concept to production.
Work combines hands-on technical leadership with client-facing advisory across cloud, machine learning, and generative AI.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end data and AI architecture, including cloud infrastructure, data pipelines, model serving, generative AI, and agent-based systems.
- Design agent orchestration and the model layer, including selection and use of open-weight models.
- Define application modernization paths that embed AI into client systems and processes.
- Advise senior clients and align designs with business goals, security policies, and applicable regulations.
- Lead client workshops and present architecture options to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Lead architecture reviews and technical governance; provide hands-on guidance to unblock delivery teams.
- Design for production scalability, reliability, observability, and cost.
- Support scoping, proposals, effort estimates, and project-pipeline conversion.
- Apply AI compliance and responsible AI practices; mentor junior colleagues and contribute to internal IP and reference architectures.
Qualifications
- Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, AI, or a related field.
- 8+ years in solution or cloud architecture, or senior engineering with significant design ownership.
- Deep multi-cloud expertise across networking, security, compute, storage, and managed AI/ML services; relevant platforms include AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and/or Databricks.
- Experience designing agent orchestration and model layers, including open-weight models.
- Knowledge of classical machine learning, deep learning, generative AI, autonomous agents, and data engineering.
- Experience taking AI solutions from proof of concept to production.
- Ability to engage senior clients, lead workshops, and translate business needs into technical solutions.
- Familiarity with AI compliance and responsible AI; sound architectural judgment under uncertainty.
- Professional proficiency in English is required; Arabic is a plus.
- Must be based in the UAE, in Dubai or Abu Dhabi. Professional-level cloud or Databricks certifications are highly preferred.
Benefits and culture
- The company describes a community-oriented culture emphasizing excellence, entrepreneurship, innovation, teamwork, care, support, and employee wellbeing.
- The posting mentions market-benchmarked compensation and benefits, career advocacy, mentoring, and ongoing learning opportunities.
About the company
Sia is a management consulting firm founded in Paris in 1999, with more than 3,000 employees and offices across 19 countries.
In the Middle East, the firm provides advisory services including strategy, innovation, cybersecurity, data security, transformation, and IT performance.
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