Senior Architect - AI Infrastructure
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About the Role
Open Innovation AI seeks a Senior Architect to define infrastructure reference architectures, sizing models, and BOQs for AI workloads. The role provides architectural guidance across pre-sales and internal engineering, ensuring scalable and commercially sound proposals.
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Responsibilities
- Define and maintain standard infrastructure reference architectures, sizing models, and baseline Bills of Materials (BOQs) to support scalable and consistent pre sales proposals.
- Act as the technical authority for infrastructure design validation and final BOQ sign off across all customer opportunities.
- Provide architectural guidance and approval for complex or non standard customer scenarios, including high level designs and solution validation.
- Ensure all proposed solutions align with approved standards, delivery capabilities, and operational requirements.
- Drive infrastructure standardization across compute, storage, and network domains in close collaboration with engineering teams.
- Establish and evolve enterprise infrastructure architecture principles, reference models, and design guardrails.
- Own infrastructure design review and approval processes, ensuring architectural consistency and governance.
- Serve as the architectural interface between Pre Sales, Systems Engineering, Platform Engineering, and Operations teams.
- Enable pre Sales through reusable architectural assets, reference designs, and clear technical guidance.
- Engage with strategic vendors and partners to validate reference architectures, assumptions, and solution alignment when required.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline
- 7 10 years of experience in infrastructure architecture, solutions architecture, or senior systems engineering
- Strong background in designing enterprise and AI/HPC infrastructure across compute, storage, and networking domains
- Proven experience producing high level architectures, sizing models, and Bills of Materials for customer facing proposals
- Ability to balance technical design with commercial and delivery requirements
- Experience defining and enforcing infrastructure standards, reference architectures, and design governance
- Strong understanding of end to end solution lifecycle from pre sales design through delivery and operations
- Excellent communication and documentation skills
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Company Overview
- Open Innovation AI is a global technology company specializing in advanced solutions for managing AI workloads.
- Its flagship product, the Open Innovation Cluster Manager (OICM), orchestrates complex AI tasks efficiently across diverse infrastructures.
- The platform is hardware agnostic, optimized for various GPUs and accelerators, and facilitates seamless integration and scalability for enterprise AI applications.
Role Overview
- The Senior Architect – Infrastructure serves as the architectural authority for infrastructure solutions across pre sales and internal engineering.
- The role is accountable for defining standard reference architectures, sizing models, and baseline Bills of Materials (BOQs) that enable consistent, scalable, and commercially sound proposals.
- The role provides targeted architectural guidance, producing high level designs and validating solution and BOQ integrity prior to final submission.
Role Responsibilities
- Define and maintain standard infrastructure reference architectures, sizing models, and baseline Bills of Materials (BOQs) to support scalable and consistent pre sales proposals.
- Act as the technical authority for infrastructure design validation and final BOQ sign off across all customer opportunities.
- Provide architectural guidance and approval for complex or non standard customer scenarios, including high level designs and solution validation.
- Ensure all proposed solutions align with approved standards, delivery capabilities, and operational requirements.
- Drive infrastructure standardization across compute, storage, and network domains in close collaboration with engineering teams.
- Establish and evolve enterprise infrastructure architecture principles, reference models, and design guardrails.
- Own infrastructure design review and approval processes, ensuring architectural consistency and governance.
- Serve as the architectural interface between Pre Sales, Systems Engineering, Platform Engineering, and Operations teams.
- Enable pre Sales through reusable architectural assets, reference designs, and clear technical guidance.
- Engage with strategic vendors and partners to validate reference architectures, assumptions, and solution alignment when required.
Required Experience & Qualification
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- 7–10 years of experience in infrastructure architecture, solutions architecture, or senior systems engineering roles.
- Strong background in designing enterprise and AI/HPC infrastructure across compute, storage, and networking domains.
- Proven experience producing high level architectures, sizing models, and Bills of Materials for customer facing proposals.
- Ability to balance technical design with commercial and delivery requirements.
- Experience defining and enforcing infrastructure standards, reference architectures, and design governance.
- Strong understanding of end to end solution lifecycle, from pre sales design through delivery and operations.
- Ability to act as a final technical authority and make architecture decisions in complex, multi stakeholder environments.
- Excellent communication and documentation skills, with the ability to convey complex designs clearly and concisely.
- Experience working with major infrastructure vendors and ecosystem partners; relevant certifications are advantageous but not mandatory.
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