Lead Cloud Architect

About the role

We are seeking an AI and Agentic Transformation Consultant in our growing Consulting & Advisory organization to lead Data and AI Strategy advisory engagements and drive transformational outcomes for our enterprise and SMB clients. As an AI and Agentic Transformation Consultant, you'll serve as a trusted advisor to our clients, helping them navigate complex business challenges and unlock the potential of AI and Data to automate and evolve business processes and operations.

Our Consulting & Advisory positions will require 50% travel to customer sites and conferences.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Advisory (~35%)
  • Lead executive-level AI strategy sessions, discovery workshops, and stakeholder interviews to assess readiness and define transformation roadmaps
  • Design AI governance frameworks including tiered risk models, responsible AI policies, and governance-as-enabler narratives for enterprise clients
  • Help clients stand up AI Centers of Excellence — operating models, tooling selection, team structures, and change management
  • Translate AI capabilities into measurable business outcomes and build compelling executive business cases for AI investment
  • Contribute to practice development: IP assets, point-of-view papers, playbooks, and go-to-market offerings
• Technical Solutioning (~40%)
  • Architect AI and agentic solutions appropriate to the client’s context — selecting the right approach across no-code, low-code, and pro-code patterns
  • Design and validate workflow approaches (e.g. Intelligent Document Processing), agent orchestration patterns, tool-use frameworks, and LLM evaluation strategies
  • Assess and advise on data foundations: data lakes, lakehouses, and modern data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, Fabric, AWS Glue)
  • Serve as a technical SME during pre-sales, supporting scoping, solution design, and proposal development alongside sales teams
  • Evaluate emerging AI and data technologies and contribute to the organization’s technical knowledge base
• Delivery Leadership (~25%)
  • Manage project workstreams and coordinate cross-functional client and internal teams to ensure quality of consulting deliverables
  • Own engagement health: scope, timeline, risk, and client satisfaction across concurrent projects
  • Represent RapidScale at industry events and conferences as part of the AI and Data practice’s market presence

Requirements

• Minimum Qualifications:
  • Bachelor’s degree and 6 years’ experience in Software Architect/Engineer roles OR a Master’s degree and 4 years’ experience Software Architect/Engineer roles OR a Ph.D. and 1 years’ experience in Software Architect/Engineer roles OR 10 years’ experience in Software Architect/Engineer roles
  • At least 5 years in technology consulting with a mix of strategy and technical delivery experience; Big 4 or equivalent consulting background strongly preferred
  • Demonstrated experience leading AI and Data strategy engagements for enterprise clients from discovery through roadmap delivery
  • Hands-on expertise with at least one major cloud AI platform (AWS Bedrock/SageMaker, Azure AI & Copilot Studio, Google Cloud Vertex AI) and working familiarity with a second
  • Practical knowledge of agentic AI: agent orchestration, tool use, memory management, RAG pipelines, LLM evaluation, and observability of automated workflows
  • Experience mapping business processes and selecting appropriate implementation patterns (no-code, low-code, pro-code) based on client capability and context
  • Strong executive communication and facilitation skills — equally comfortable in a boardroom strategy session and a technical whiteboard
  • Experience building or advising on AI governance frameworks
• Preferred Qualifications:
  • Background in data platform modernization (Data Lakes, Snowflake, Databricks, Fabric, AWS Glue)

Benefits

Here, our employees don’t just have jobs, they're building careers. That’s why we offer a comprehensive pay and benefits package that rewards employees for their contributions to our success, supporting all aspects of their well-being at every stage of life.