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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Solution Architect - **Company:** EPAM Systems, Inc. - **Location:** Austin, TX, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $160,000.0 - $230,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Software Design Documents, Distributed Systems, Data Flow Control, OAuth, Systems Integration, Large Language Models, Multi-Agent Systems, IT Architecture, Software Coding - **Published:** September 18, 2026 - **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/D26913F081C0469AA4E8B088728148E7/job/ ## About the Role * You have architected AI-native systems in production - RAG, assistants, agents or agentic workflows with real users or real business processes behind them - and you held architect-level responsibility for the system around the model * You are a proven solution or software architect with a strong production track record who has started building with AI on your own initiative in the last year or so - a side project, a proof of concept, an internal tool, published writing - and wants to make AI-native design the center of your work * Solid experience as a solution, software, or enterprise architect with delivery accountability: systems you designed that shipped, ran, and were maintained over time * Depth in distributed systems, integration, cloud, and data-flow architecture at enterprise scale * Demonstrated ability to work with ambiguous, conflicting requirements and to make trade-offs explicit rather than resolving them silently * Experience presenting options, costs, and risks to non-technical decision makers and getting decisions made * A habit of writing things down: architecture decision records, design documents, reference architectures that other teams built from * Recent hands-on coding ability, enough to prototype and to keep your constraints honest * Understanding of how AI-assisted development changes the architect's role: what to specify, what to evaluate, and where to keep human judgment Nice to have * Experience in regulated industries - financial services, healthcare and life sciences, insurance * Agent frameworks, tool and function calling, MCP, orchestration patterns, LLM observability * Identity and authorization for agentic systems (OAuth 2.1, SPIFFE, AuthZEN, DPoP) * Ownership of cost and token economics for a production AI system * Consulting or pre-sales experience * Published writing, talks, or open-source contributions on AI architecture ## Description * Design end-to-end architectures for AI-native solutions: orchestration, retrieval, tool and system integration, agent autonomy and guardrails, identity and authorization, evaluation, observability, and cost model * Fit each solution exactly to the business scope - no more, no less - and be able to explain what you deliberately left out and why * Turn incoherent or contradictory requirements into explicit business decisions: surface them, reframe them in business terms, price the options, and get a named owner to decide * Make and document architectural trade-offs (build vs buy, model selection, retrieval strategy, autonomy level, cost vs quality) in a form that stakeholders can challenge and future teams can trust * Define the evaluation strategy for each system: how we will know that an assistant or agent fits the business scope, not just that it produces fluent output * Author the constraints, guidelines, and architectural fitness functions that engineering teams and coding agents build within, and revise them as the organization learns what generation gets wrong * Decide where humans must stay in the loop - regulated decisions, data of record, security boundaries, anything with legal or contractual consequence * Work within EPAM delivery teams and in presales: shape proposals, present options and costs to client executives, and review designs across teams * Build proofs of concept and reference implementations when, and only when, a decision needs evidence or a team needs an example of "good" * Contribute to EPAM's AI architecture practice: reference architectures, reusable patterns, and mentoring architects who are transitioning into AI-native design ## Related Videos - [The Software Engineer 2030: From Coder To AI Orchestrator? - Patrick Schnell](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1825-the-software-engineer-2030-from-coder-to-ai-orchestrator-patrick-schnell) - [Keeping applications secure by evolving OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100152-keeping-applications-secure-by-evolving-oauth-2-0-and-openid-connect) - [Unleashing the Power of Developers: Why Cybersecurity is the Missing Piece?!?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/712-unleashing-the-power-of-developers-why-cybersecurity-is-the-missing-piece) - [Architectures that we can use with .NET](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/935-architectures-that-we-can-use-with-net) - [AI Killed DevOps... 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