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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # AI Solutions Architect - **Company:** Indiana Steel & Engineering, Inc. - **Location:** Canandaigua, NY, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $234,000.0 - $247,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Customer Data Management, Data Architecture, Information Engineering, Data Systems, Software Engineering, Systems Integration, Enterprise Software Applications, Snowflake, Multi-Agent Systems, Integration Frameworks, Software Coding - **Published:** June 7, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/787c4d2c-16da-473d-bf0a-1caee53be834 ## About the Role * 10+ years in solutions architecture, data engineering, or senior software engineering, with demonstrated experience designing enterprise-scale systems. * Deep expertise in data architecture and modeling across messy, heterogeneous enterprise environments, with enough AI/ML familiarity to understand how data quality and structure determine what is possible on the intelligence layer. * Experience designing integrations across complex enterprise environments including ERP, POS, Snowflake, and proprietary APIs. * Hands-on coding is non-negotiable - the ability to build is as important as the ability to design. * Proven customer-facing experience presenting technical architectures to both engineering and executive audiences. * Strong systems thinking - able to hold the full technical picture of a complex engagement while also working in the details. * Comfort defining architecture from first principles in greenfield, ambiguous environments. Preferred Qualifications * Background in retail tech, e-commerce infrastructure, or CPG data systems (POS, ERP,, Snowflake). * Familiarity with open agent standards or multi-agent orchestration frameworks. * Prior experience in enterprise software implementation or systems integration. * Startup or high-growth environment experience. ## Description As the AI Solutions Architect, you own the data and AI architecture, integration design, and governance across every engagement the pod runs. You are the person who makes Instacart's Intelligence Platform actually work inside real partner environments. This is a hands-on, field-first role-you will embed with partner engineering teams to map data ontologies, design integrations, and co-build solutions that work in the real world, not just on a whiteboard. About the Job * Own data modeling, integration design, and governance across every engagement; serve as the senior technical authority from pre-sales through delivery. * Map customer data and Instacart's data ontology together, and gate technical feasibility before any build begins. * Establish integration patterns between the Intelligence Platform and partner systems, e.g.,POS, ERP, loyalty, CRM, Snowflake, proprietary APIs, and mobile surfaces. * Bridge partner technical requirements with Instacart R&D roadmaps, APIs, and SDKs; surface gaps and advocate for platform changes needed to serve the field. * Prototype and code in real-time alongside partners * Review designs and unblock the Forward Deployed Engineers to ensure architectural integrity across the pod's engagements. * Codify reusable integration patterns into scalable architecture templates as the pod scales. 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