Senior AI Architect & Engineer | Remote
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Job description
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Implement and extend enterprise AI integration patterns, connecting AI platforms to a variety of business data sources (APIs, CRM, ERP, data warehouses, document repositories).
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Contribute to the design of AI integration frameworks-governing large language models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, agent systems, and API layers.
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Design and deploy AI agent patterns, covering multi-agent orchestration, tool-use workflows, memory architecture, and human-in-the-loop mechanisms.
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Support AI-enabled Agile delivery frameworks, helping develop workflow designs and AI-enabled tooling to accelerate software development timelines.
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Produce architecture decision records (ADRs), integration specifications, and documentation that adhere to enterprise governance standards.
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Develop and enforce data governance patterns such as prompt versioning, evaluation frameworks, and readiness checklists for AI solutions.
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Prototype & Pilot Delivery:
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Deliver AI prototypes that demonstrate integration efficacy and serve as blueprints for productization.
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Lead pilot projects from architectural validation through operational handoff, ensuring non-functional requirement (NFR) compliance and production readiness.
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Build and document RAG pipelines, including quality metric definition and optimization strategies.
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Develop AI agent solutions with robust observability, governance oversight, and demonstrable business value.
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Create prompt libraries, workflow SOPs, and project configurations for seamless adoption by engineering teams.
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Production Scale Support:
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Embed with platform engineering teams to mentor, enforce architectural patterns, and champion operational best practices.
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Develop repeatable deployment methodologies, operational runbooks, and extension guides that accelerate platform maturity.
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Instrument AI workloads for cost, performance, and drift monitoring, in partnership with cloud governance teams.
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Identify and mitigate risks associated with AI toolchain sprawl and technical debt.
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Governance & Standards:
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Serve as a technical contributor to enterprise Architecture Review Board (ARB) processes for all major AI decisions and platform choices.
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Help evolve data and AI working group standards by documenting integration and governance patterns.
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Apply Zero Trust security principles across all AI integration and architecture artifacts.
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Maintain all architectural documentation as living, auditable references.
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Use Case & Stakeholder Engagement:
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Translate business requirements into actionable AI designs mapped to core enterprise value streams.
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Build proof-of-concept demonstrations that validate technical differentiation to executive and business stakeholders.
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Collaborate closely with innovation, product, and delivery teams to scope and prioritize AI initiatives.
Your engagement will shift between three postures as required:
- Architecture Contributor: Contribute designs, patterns, and documentation during early solution definition phases.
- Prototype Builder: Independently build and validate prototypes, instrument solutions, and prepare for handoff.
- Embedded Engineer: Partner with delivery teams to scale validated patterns into robust, production-grade AI capabilities.
Requirements
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AI & LLM Integrations: Deep experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP) design, REST APIs, event-driven integration, OAuth 2.0, and connecting AI models to enterprise data sources such as CRMs, ERPs, and document repositories.
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AI Agent Engineering: Proven expertise integrating multi-agent systems-task routing, orchestration, memory, human-in-the-loop patterns-and familiarity with frameworks such as LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, or equivalents.
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AI-Enabled Workflows: Experience with role-based prompt libraries, LLM-assisted SDLC tooling, AI-augmented software delivery, and the ability to build repeatable, consumable delivery patterns.
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Enterprise RAG Pipeline Development: Hands-on experience with document ingestion, chunking, embedding models, retrieval optimization, hybrid search, and measuring and tuning retrieval quality.
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LLM Application Development: Production experience using LLM APIs for structured output, multi-turn conversations, system prompt design, and evaluation frameworks. Practical familiarity with providers like OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Anthropic, and Azure OpenAI Service.
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AI Governance & Observability: Implementing AI model lifecycle practices, readiness and cost tracking, FinOps tagging, and explainability documentation for enterprise workloads.
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Cloud Architecture: Extensive AWS (Bedrock, Lambda, ECS, S3, RDS, API Gateway, IAM) and Azure (AI Foundry, Container Instances, Cosmos DB, OpenAI Service) hands-on experience.
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Software Engineering: Advanced proficiency in Python (required); Node.js/TypeScript strongly preferred. Working in AI application development, pipeline construction, and scripting.
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MLOps & Production Engineering: CI/CD for AI, Docker, prompt management, automated evaluation, and instrumentation for observability.
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Soft Skills:
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Able to fluidly shift between architecture, prototyping, and embedded delivery engagement styles.
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Clear communicator-able to explain technical tradeoffs to diverse technical and non-technical audiences.
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Produces actionable architecture artifacts for engineers.
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Practices intellectual honesty, clearly distinguishing proven capabilities from aspirational goals.
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Highly self-directed, with strong stakeholder alignment and autonomy as needed.
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Treats governance requirements as enablers for delivery, not overheads., * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field; Master's degree preferred.
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6 8 years in software engineering, AI/ML engineering, or solution architecture, with at least 2 3 years directly on production large language model or generative AI systems.
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History of successfully deploying AI capabilities from prototype to governed, production-grade solutions.
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AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Machine Learning (or equivalent certifications) a plus.
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Experience with enterprise governance frameworks: Architecture Review Board, FinOps, or change management.
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Background in synthetic workforce or persistent agent platform development strongly preferred.
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Demonstrated contributions to AI-augmented software delivery and measurable delivery cycle compression.
Prior experience in live events, trade shows, hospitality, or high-volume B2B enterprise platforms is a plus but not required.