Senior Application Architect - AI Agentic, Integration & Architecture COE

The Client is seeking a Senior Application Architect with deep expertise in AI agentic architecture, enterprise integration, and architecture standards. This hands-on role designs agent-based and AI-enabled solutions, defines integration patterns, publishes application architecture standards, and helps establish an Architecture Center of Excellence (COE). The architect will work in Azure, AWS, and hybrid environments.

• 10 years of application/enterprise architecture experience, including cloud-native design on Azure and/or AWS. \n

• Experience delivering AI/LLM or agentic solutions in an enterprise. \n

• Experience authoring standards and operating an architecture COE or review board. \n

• Strong integration/API expertise and executive-level communication \n

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• AI Agentic Architecture \n

• Design reference architectures for agentic AI: multi-agent orchestration, tool calling, RAG, and human-in-the-loop controls. \n

• Define secure patterns for integrating agents with enterprise systems and APIs (e.g., MCP, event-driven triggers). \n

• Establish guardrails for agent identity, access, auditability, observability, evaluation, and cost. \n

• Design and govern API-led, event-driven, and messaging integration patterns, including API lifecycle and gateway strategy. \n

• Define integration patterns for legacy, SaaS, and cloud-native systems. \n

• Develop, publish, and maintain application, integration, API, and AI architecture standards and reference architectures. \n

• Help establish and operate the COE: charter, governance forums, design reviews, training, and playbooks. \n

• Define COE and standards-adoption metrics in coordination with AI IT adoption tracking. \n

• Guide application modernization and cloud design on Azure, AWS, and hybrid environments. \n

• Align designs with NIST (incl. AI RMF), CIS, ISO 27001, and Client security requirements. \n

• Partner with product, engineering, DevOps, and Cybersecurity teams; communicate clearly to business and technical stakeholders.