AI-ML Architect
Grant Thornton (US)
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Chicago • Illinois • United States
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About the role
- Lead discovery workshops to clarify business objectives, constraints, and measurable success criteria for AI/ML initiatives
- Translate requirements into end-to-end target-state architectures across data, ML/AI, application integration, security, and governance
- Define pragmatic tradeoffs across accuracy, latency, cost, reliability, privacy, and risk—and communicate decisions to exec and engineering audiences
- Design the data + model lifecycle (pipelines, training/finetuning, serving, monitoring, drift detection, retraining) and the required MLOps/LLMOps foundations
- Establish integration patterns with enterprise systems (APIs/events/workflows, IAM, observability) so solutions are operable and supportable in production
- Partner with security, privacy, and risk teams to embed controls (access, auditability, data handling, responsible AI) into solution designs
- Produce core delivery artifacts (architecture diagrams, reference patterns, implementation roadmap, runbooks) and drive architecture reviews
- Mentor teams and build reusable assets/accelerators (reference architectures, templates, evaluation scorecards) to scale repeatable delivery quality
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree preferably in data science or computer science or related discipline
- For managers, minimum five years of hands-on developer experience in machine learning and artificial intelligence stacks
- For Directors, at least two years of experience leading teams of AI/ML architects and developers
- Demonstrated experience designing and delivering production AI/ML solutions in an enterprise environment
- Strong grounding in cloud architecture (AWS/Azure/GCP), distributed systems, and modern data platforms
- Experience with MLOps practices (model lifecycle, monitoring, governance, deployment automation)
- Experience partnering with security/risk to implement privacy, access controls, auditability, and responsible AI practices
- Ability to lead senior client stakeholders through decisions under ambiguity
- Experience to develop long-standing relationships with clients
- Experience leading AI/ML delivery programs
- Experience with AI patterns (RAG, agentic, etc.)
- Preferred: experience with regulated environments (SOX, HIPAA, PCI, model risk management)
- Experience leading proposal solutioning / estimates / technical writing for pursuits
- Experience mentoring junior or senior colleagues in AI/ML architectures
- Experience guiding clients on build vs. buy decisions of AI/ML powered use cases
- Flexible, adaptable and an eager self-starter
- English: Fluent spoken and written communications skills
- Prior consulting industry experience or prior experience in an internal consulting role
- Must be currently eligible to work in the United States, position is not eligible for employer sponsorship.
Benefits
- We understand that your needs, responsibilities and experiences are different, and we think that’s a good thing. That’s why we support you with personalized and comprehensive benefits that recognize and empower all the identities, roles and aspirations that make you, well, you. For an overview of our benefit offerings, please visit: __https://www.grantthornton.com/careers/rewards-and-benefits__
- - Benefits for internship positions: Grant Thornton interns are eligible to participate in the firm’s medical, dental and vision insurance programs and the firm’s employee assistance program. Interns also receive a minimum of 72 hours of paid sick leave, and are paid for firm holidays that fall within their internship period.
- - Benefits for seasonal employee positions: Grant Thornton seasonal employees are eligible to participate in the firm’s medical, dental and vision insurance programs and the firm’s employee assistance program. Seasonal employees may also be eligible to participate in the firm’s 401(k) savings plan and employee retirement plan in accordance with applicable plan terms and eligibility requirements. Seasonal employees receive a minimum of 72 hours of paid sick leave.
- Grant Thornton employees may be eligible for a discretionary, annual bonus based on individual and firm performance, subject to the terms, conditions and eligibility criteria of the applicable bonus plan or program. Interns and seasonal employees are not eligible for bonus compensation.
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Hard Skills & Tools
machine learningartificial intelligenceMLOpscloud architectureAWSAzureGCPdata pipelinesmodel lifecycledeployment automation
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationmentoringrelationship buildingdecision makingadaptabilityflexibilityclient engagementproblem solvingcollaboration