Senior AI Architect, APAC

About The Job: The Red Hat APAC Solutions and Technology Practice team in Professional Services is looking for a Senior AI Architect to join the world’s leading provider of open-source solutions. You will collaborate with regional sales, consulting, and engineering teams to scope and deliver customer engagements across the Asia-Pacific region. You will lead the design and development of scalable AI workloads that address the demands of diverse markets and industries in APAC, including finance, telecommunications, manufacturing, and healthcare. As a Senior AI Architect, you’ll also contribute to building regional expertise by mentoring architects and consultants, crafting repeatable delivery methodologies, and representing Red Hat as an industry leader in AI technologies. You’ll work closely with customers to understand their challenges, design solutions leveraging Red Hat’s technologies (in particular Red Hat AI Platform ), and ensure exceptional customer experiences. This role involves up to 40% travel across APAC to engage with customers.. What You Will Do: At 3 months, be prepared to: Gain in-depth knowledge of Red Hat technologies by completing enablement programs focused on OpenShift and Red Hat AI platform. Scope and deliver consulting engagements for customers, applying Red Hat's expertise in containerization and AI technologies. Support regional consulting and sales teams in early customer engagements to scope solutions and articulate AI’s value proposition. Own solution scoping and architectural direction for initial engagements, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, scalability and business outcomes. Within 6 months, be ready to: Lead the design and implementation of customer solutions on AI Platform. Develop expertise in areas such as distributed workloads, hardware accelerators at scale, or ISV partner integrations in APAC markets. Collaborate with product engineering and sales teams to align customer feedback with Red Hat’s solutions roadmap. Collaborate with consultants in delivering high-quality AI projects. Mentor and elevate regional consulting teams, setting standards for solution quality, reusable assets and delivery excellence. Within 12 months, be contributing to broader regional and global objectives by: Driving the adoption of AI best practices and methodologies across APAC, enabling scalable and repeatable AI platform deployments. Engaging in active participation and contributing to the Red Hat AI community of practice by sharing lessons learned, best practices, and technical expertise. Representing APAC in global AI strategy discussions and contributing regional perspectives to Red Hat’s technology vision. Developing AI solutions tailored to the unique needs of APAC customers. What You Will Bring: Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or a related technical field. Experience leading successful AI consulting engagements, including shaping opportunities, driving delivery and achieving measurable business outcomes inoutcomes in APAC in the APAC region or similar markets. Strong ability to translate AI capabilities into business value, including ROI driven use case prioritization. Proven ability to architect and design complex solutions in rapidly evolving technology environments. Expertise in architecting scalable AI/ML systems, including distributed training/inference, data pipelines and production deployment. Demonstrated ability to operate at both strategic and hands on levels, from advisory to deep technical architecture. The ability to stay on top of emerging solutions for AI and the ability to learn those technologies quickly. Experience with modern predictive and generative AI techniques. Strong application architecture and development expertise. Deep expertise with Red Hat OpenShift/Kubernetes and open source AI community projects such as Kubeflow, PyTorch and vLLM. Familiarity with AI use cases in industries such as finance, telecommunications, healthcare, or retail within APAC. Demonstrated ability to advise senior IT and business executives, including experience presenting to C-level stakeholders. Hands-on experience with agile, DevOps, and MLOps and LLMOps methodologies and platform engineering practices. Excellent communication and presentation skills tailored to diverse cultural and professional audiences. Willingness to travel across APAC (up to 40% of the time). Why Join Red Hat? At Red Hat, you’ll have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge open-source technologies, drive impactful AI transformations, and influence some of the largest and most innovative companies in the APAC region. #LI-VG11 About Red Hat Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40+ countries, our associates work flexibly across work environments, from in-office, to office-flex, to fully remote, depending on the requirements of their role. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas, no matter their title or tenure. We're a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative, passionate people ready to contribute their ideas, help solve complex problems, and make an impact. 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