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The Sovereign AI Enterprise Architect is responsible for leading the architecture strategy and governance for AI-enabled solutions within the AI Factory and Sovereign AI solutions throughout the solution lifecycle – sales, presales and delivery. This role will serve as the bridge between our customers’ strategic objectives and our technical vision—translating complex needs into scalable AI solutions that adhere to national, regulatory, and organizational sovereignty standards.
Job Responsibility:
Lead end-to-end architecture design for sovereign AI deployments, ensuring compliance with data residency, privacy, and regulatory requirements
Develop scalable, secure, and robust AI/ML reference architectures, including model lifecycle management, data pipelines, inference infrastructure, and governance frameworks
Evaluate and select technologies, cloud/on-prem infrastructure, and tooling aligned to sovereign and risk-management constraints
Provide architectural oversight across implementation teams, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and risk mitigation strategies
Identify, assess, and manage risks across the AI solution lifecycle
Develop and implement governance frameworks that embed responsible AI principles, auditability, and continuous risk monitoring
Partner with security, compliance, and legal teams to ensure adherence to sovereignty mandates and enterprise risk frameworks
Embed security-by-design and risk-by-design in architecture, deployment, and operations
Create architectural documentation, diagrams, and governance frameworks for AI model development, deployment, and monitoring
Drive security-by-design principles into all AI components, including encryption, access control, auditing, and safe model operation
Partner with engineering, security, compliance, and product teams to ensure architectural integrity throughout execution
Lead technical reviews and guide the resolution of architectural and integration issues
Serve as a trusted advisor to customers—C-suite, technical leaders, and regulatory stakeholders, helping them shape their sovereign AI strategy, facilitating design workshops, discovery sessions and technical deep-dives
Translate complex customer requirements into actionable architectures and solution roadmaps
Communicate architectural decisions and recommendations to executives, delivery teams, security, product engineers, and customers
Maintain tight alignment with multiple internal functions within HPE
Stay ahead of global developments in sovereign AI, regulation, digital sovereignty trends, and AI risk management
Contribute to thought leadership initiatives through whitepapers, presentations, and technical guidance
Serve as an ambassador for architectural excellence across geographies, ensuring alignment and knowledge sharing across regional teams
Mentor, coach, and develop solution and enterprise architects—building capability, consistency, and technical depth across locations
Requirements:
10+ years’ experience in enterprise sales or sales leadership within IT services, cloud, AI/ML, or data/analytics domains
Strong grounding in data architecture, ML lifecycle, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP/Greenlake), MLOps tooling, security/privacy frameworks, APIs/integration patterns, with the ability to translate technical concepts into business value
Proven experience selling complex technology solutions to enterprise and/or public sector organizations
Demonstrated ability to influence teams without direct authority across GEOs, business units, and matrix environments
Exceptional communication skills with the ability to translate technology into business value
Experience with Sovereign Cloud, MLOps, or compliance-led AI deployments
Familiarity with EU AI Act, GDPR, HIPAA, FedRAMP, CJIS, or related frameworks
Background in professional services, consulting, or large-scale transformation programs
Previous experience building a new sales motion or launching a net-new offering
Accountability
Active Learning
Active Listening
Assertiveness
Bias
Building Rapport
Buyer Personas
Coaching
Complex Sales
Creativity
Critical Thinking
Cross-Functional Teamwork
Customer Experience Strategy
Customer Interactions
Design Thinking
Empathy
Financial Acumen
Follow-Through
Growth Mindset
Identifying Sales Opportunities
Industry Knowledge
Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive)
Long Term Planning
Managing Ambiguity
Nice to have:
Experience with Sovereign Cloud, MLOps, or compliance-led AI deployments
Familiarity with EU AI Act, GDPR, HIPAA, FedRAMP, CJIS, or related frameworks
Background in professional services, consulting, or large-scale transformation programs
Previous experience building a new sales motion or launching a net-new offering