(Senior) Forward Deployed Data & AI Solutions Architect 80-100% — Eraneos Switzerland AG

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Eraneos is an international strategy, transformation and technology advisory group that helps companies thrive in a dynamic digital world. With first-class experts from business and technology, we empower our customers to set new standards for sustainable transformations – from strategy to implementation. Whether in the design of sustainable organizations, the development of new potential through data and AI or the protection of companies through holistic cybersecurity: We deliver results pragmatically and purposefully. Our team of around 1,300 dedicated employees is represented in offices in Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Austria, the UK, Singapore and the USA and combines global perspectives with strong local roots. Around 450 employees work at the Swiss locations in Zurich, Bern and Lausanne.

This is the job - your main tasks

• You develop viable Data & AI solution architectures. Together with departments, IT and Delivery Lead, you will specify requirements and translate them into feasible concepts. You weigh standard products, managed services and in-house developments against each other.
• You shape the interaction of the entire solution. You connect data, AI models, applications, interfaces and infrastructure and develop security, authorization, deployment and operational concepts for cloud, on-prem and hybrid environments.
• You work on the technical implementation yourself. You check critical assumptions through technical spikes and prototypes, implement challenging components and accompany the solution to productive use.
• You are making AI solutions production ready. Together with the team, you define requirements for tests, evaluation, monitoring and operation and balance quality, performance, availability and overall costs.
• You take technical leadership. You set engineering standards, conduct code and architecture reviews, and coach engineers. You will also develop the quality-assured use of AI in the software development lifecycle.
• You advise customers and represent technical decisions. You will moderate solution and architecture workshops, explain alternatives and their consequences and coordinate architecture, security and operations with the relevant specialists.

This job is for you if

• Practical experience with productive AI solutions in the enterprise environment. You have designed and implemented solutions yourself and know development, deployment and operation from your own experience.
• In-depth knowledge of Agentic AI and modern AI architectures. You understand agents, agent teams and their orchestration, tool calling, structured outputs and multimodal processing with voice and vision.
• Technical depth in software and data. You master service and API design and understand data models, data flows, subject system integration, asynchronous processing and distributed systems.
• Experience with cloud, on-prem, managed services, model delivery, network and infrastructure automation.
• A strong understanding of safety and production maturity. You consider identities, roles, data accesses, secrets and auditability, as well as AI-specific risks. Tests, CI/CD, observability, versioning and restart are part of the solution architecture for you.
• Consulting competence and enjoyment of people business, as well as very good knowledge of German at at least C1 level.

As an i-top you bring with you

• Experience with demanding operating environments: You have implemented local model deployment, GPU infrastructure or solutions with special requirements for data protection, availability or isolation.
• Experience with structured architecture documentation: For example, you use arc42 and document architecture decisions so that customers and implementation teams can continue to work with it.
• Experience with AI-assisted engineering: You have integrated coding assistants and agents beyond personal use into development, review and test processes and ensured their quality.
• Experience with reuse and presales: You have built reference architectures or common components or contributed to gaining new mandates through technical advice and convincing solution designs.

Even if not all requirements are fully met, we are very happy about an application.

Your next step towards a successful application

• Hüseyin as your contact person is looking forward to your direct application via our website (CV, diplomas and employment certificates in PDF).

Diversity is important to us – show us what makes you and send us your documents today!

Applications by e-mail and by personnel service providers are not considered and deleted directly.

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