Business Solution Architect - Data & AI ( Retail, Consumer Goods)

Role & responsibilities

• Design end-to-end solutions spanning multiple systems and business capabilities across:
• Work closely with account teams and industry leaders to shape and qualify Data & AI opportunities.
• Translate complex Retail/Consumer business problems into scalable Data, AI and ML solutions.
• Define solution architectures and engineering roadmaps across cloud, data platforms, AI/ML and GenAI.
• Deliver compelling, domain-focused presentations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Support pre-sales, solutioning, PoCs, proposals and enterprise deal closure.
• Drive PoC-to-production conversion and develop reusable solution blueprints/frameworks.
• Act as a trusted advisor to customers on their Data & AI transformation journey.

Preferred candidate profile

Required Experience

• 8-12 years of overall experience.
• Minimum 6+ years in Business/Solution Architecture or strategic pre-sales/solutioning.
• Strong Retail / Consumer Goods / CPG domain experience.
• Strong expertise in Data Engineering, AI/ML and Solution Architecture.
• Experience designing enterprise-grade architectures across cloud and modern data platforms.
• Experience with GenAI, LLMs and AI Agents, particularly their application to business processes.
• Exposure to platforms such as Databricks and/or Snowflake.
• Cloud experience across Azure, AWS and/or GCP.
• Proven experience participating in and successfully closing enterprise Data & AI deals.
• Excellent stakeholder management, consulting, presentation and communication skills.
• Experience working with Industry Verticals / Business Units / Industry Principals would be an advantage.