(Senior) Forward Deployed Data & AI Solutions Architect 80-100%

19 September 2026
80 – 100%
Zurich

Job summary

Eraneos is a global consulting group specializing in strategy and technology. Join a dynamic team committed to sustainable transformation.

Tasks

Develop robust Data & AI solution architectures with stakeholders.
Design comprehensive solutions integrating data, AI models, and applications.
Implement AI solutions, ensuring production readiness and quality standards.

Skills

Experience with enterprise AI solutions; hands-on design and implementation.
Strong knowledge of Agentic AI and modern AI architectures.
Expertise in software, data, and API design along with security protocols.

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About the job

Eraneos is an international consulting group for strategy, transformation and technology that supports companies in succeeding in a dynamic digital world. With top experts from business and technology, we empower our clients to set new standards for sustainable transformations – from strategy to implementation. Whether designing future-proof organisations, unlocking new potentials through data and AI, or securing companies through holistic cybersecurity: we deliver results pragmatically and purposefully. Our team of around 1,200 dedicated employees is represented in offices in Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, Austria, Great Britain, Singapore and the USA, combining global perspectives with strong local roots. Around 450 employees work at the Swiss locations Zurich, Bern and Lausanne.

This is the job - Your main tasks

You develop viable Data & AI solution architectures. Together with business units, IT and Delivery Lead, you specify requirements and translate them into actionable concepts. You weigh up standard products, Managed Services and in-house developments against each other.
You design the interaction of the entire solution. You connect data, AI models, applications, interfaces and infrastructure and develop security, authorisation, deployment and operation concepts for cloud, on-premises and hybrid environments.
You work yourself on the technical implementation. You verify critical assumptions through technical spikes and prototypes, implement demanding components and accompany the solution until productive deployment.
You make AI solutions production-ready. You define requirements for tests, evaluation, monitoring and operation with the team and balance quality, performance, availability and total costs against each other.
You take on technical leadership. You set engineering standards, conduct code and architecture reviews and coach engineers. In doing so, you also further develop the quality-assured use of AI in the software development lifecycle.
You advise clients and represent technical decisions. You moderate solution and architecture workshops, explain alternatives and their consequences and coordinate architecture, security and operation with the responsible 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 have experience in development, deployment and operation from your own experience.
Profound knowledge in Agentic AI and modern AI architectures. You understand agents, agent teams and their orchestration, tool-calling, structured outputs as well as multimodal processing with voice and vision.
Technical depth in software and data. You master service and API design and understand data models, data flows, business system integration, asynchronous processing and distributed systems.
Experience with cloud, on-premises, managed services, model deployment, network and infrastructure automation.
A strong understanding of security and production readiness. You consider identities, roles, data access, secrets and auditability as well as AI-specific risks. Tests, CI/CD, observability, versioning and restartability are part of the solution architecture for you.
Consulting competence and enjoyment of people business, as well as very good German skills at least at C1 level.

As a cherry on top, you bring

Experience with demanding operating environments: You have realised local model deployment, GPU infrastructure or solutions with special requirements for data protection, availability or isolation.
Experience with structured architecture documentation: You use, for example, arc42 and document architecture decisions so that clients and implementation teams can continue working with them.
Experience with AI-supported 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 shared components or contributed to winning new mandates through technical consulting and convincing solution designs.

Even if not all requirements are fully met, we are very much looking forward to your application.

Your next step to a successful application

Hüseyin as your contact person looks forward to your direct application via our website (CV, diplomas and work certificates in PDF).

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

Applications by e-mail as well as from personnel service providers will not be considered and will be deleted immediately.