AI Architect
Accenture Federal Services · Chantilly, VA · 2 wk ago
Art & Creative$130k–$265k/yrFull-time
About the role
Lead the end-to-end technical design, development, and implementation of an agentic AI system to orchestrate user queries across heterogeneous data sources. The architect is responsible for defining the overall system architecture, selecting and governing AI/ML and platform technologies, and ensuring the solution is scalable, secure, and production-ready. The architect partners closely with development, DevOps and data engineering teams to translate project requirements into an extensible AI architecture.
Responsibilities
- Design and deploy LLM-based systems, including RAG, tool-calling, and multi-agent patterns
- Evaluate models, manage prompt strategies, and design system for traceability and reliability
- Define and implement the overall system architecture
- Select and govern AI/ML and platform technologies
- Ensure the solution is scalable, secure, and production-ready
- Partner with development, DevOps and data engineering teams to translate project requirements into an extensible AI architecture
Requirements
- Experience designing and deploying LLM-based systems, including RAG, tool-calling, and multi-agent patterns
- Strong understanding of modern AI architectures such as embeddings, vector search, orchestration layers, memory, and reasoning workflows
- Proven ability to evaluate models, manage prompt strategies, and design system for traceability and reliability
- 8 years of experience with AI systems and Agentic systems
- 4 years experience with AI and/or Data
- Experience with Python, agent frameworks, data engineering, APIs/microservices, vector databases, SQL engines, distributed systems, cloud services, RAG
- Understanding of DevOps tools and principals
Qualifications
Nice to have:
- Experience with Model Context Protocol
- Bachelor's degree
Skills
- Experience with Python
- Agent frameworks
- Data engineering
- APIs/microservices
- Vector databases
- SQL engines
- Distributed systems
- Cloud services
- RAG
Benefits
Not specified
Pay
$130,200 - $265,300 USD
Schedule
Not specified