AI Application Architect

What We’re Looking For

We are looking for a technical leader who can:

• Translate business needs into practical AI platform architecture.
• Provide technical direction across multiple scrum teams.
• Align implementation decisions with enterprise architecture and platform strategy.
• Guide teams building agents, RAG pipelines, workflows, tools, integrations, and AI-enabled applications.
• Establish reusable patterns, templates, reference implementations, and engineering standards.
• Review designs and coach teams toward secure, scalable, observable, and maintainable solutions.
• Stay actively connected to the codebase through code reviews, technical spikes, POCs, reference implementations, troubleshooting, and situational code contributions.
• Evaluate emerging AI tools, models, frameworks, orchestration patterns, and development practices.
• Translate technical exploration into practical guidance, demos, reusable examples, and implementation standards.
• Help teams resolve technical impediments and production issues.
• Promote consistency and reuse across teams without slowing delivery.
• Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 2+ years in a technical lead, application architect, solution architect, staff engineer, or comparable technical leadership role.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Business Information Systems, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong experience designing, building, and supporting production software in medium to large business environments.
• Demonstrated ability to remain hands-on with the codebase through code reviews, proof-of-concept development, technical spikes, complex troubleshooting, and direct code contributions.
• Experience building proofs of concept, reference implementations, technical demos, templates, or reusable engineering patterns.
• Strong experience with modern software engineering practices, including: Clean code, Source control, CI/CD, Automated testing, Design patterns, Refactoring, API design, Observability, Production support.
• Experience with one or more modern programming languages and platforms, such as: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, SQL.
• Experience with distributed systems, service integrations, APIs, workflow logic, or platform capabilities.
• Experience with LLM-powered systems or AI-enabled applications, such as: RAG, Chatbots, Agent workflows, Prompt engineering, Tool use, AI-assisted application development.
• Strong understanding of architecture principles, including: Modularity, Reusability, Scalability, Reliability, Security, Maintainability, Observability, Cost awareness.
• Experience guiding teams through technical design, estimation, implementation, and production readiness.
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills across application code, integrations, logs, traces, telemetry, and production behavior.
• Experience mentoring, coaching, and influencing engineers without requiring direct reporting authority.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain technical tradeoffs to engineers, product partners, business stakeholders, and senior leaders.
• Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where AI capabilities, tools, and platform patterns continue to evolve.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with one or more of the following is helpful, but not required: Enterprise AI platform architecture, Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI services, Azure DevOps, Azure App Service, Azure API Management, or related Microsoft cloud tools.
• Experience with LLM-powered systems or AI-enabled applications, such as: RAG, Chatbots, Agent workflows, Prompt engineering, Tool use, AI-assisted application development.
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