AI Architect

About the role

Enterprise AI Architect with Full Development Experience (FDE) possessing deep expertise in architecture, hands-on software engineering, AI-assisted development, Agentic AI frameworks, DevSecOps, platform engineering, cloud-native solutions, and enterprise data platforms. Proven ability to architect, develop, secure, automate, and operationalize large-scale AI and software solutions while driving engineering excellence through modern AI-powered software delivery practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of enterprise-scale AI solutions using modern architectural patterns, clean architecture principles, domain-driven design (DDD), and cloud-native technologies.
• Define enterprise AI reference architectures, engineering standards, development frameworks, and implementation guardrails to ensure scalability, maintainability, security, and operational excellence.
• Drive adoption of Agentic AI, AI-powered software engineering, and intelligent automation across the software delivery lifecycle.
• Architect solutions with built-in observability, resilience, governance, security, and compliance from inception through production deployment.
• Partner with business, engineering, security, and platform teams to align AI capabilities with enterprise technology strategy and business outcomes.
• Demonstrate hands-on full-stack development experience spanning frontend, backend, APIs, data platforms, cloud services, and AI-enabled applications.
• Lead development teams in implementing modern engineering practices including test-driven development (TDD), CI/CD automation, code quality enforcement, and platform engineering standards.
• Define and enforce software engineering best practices with mandatory automated test coverage, code reviews, architecture reviews, and deployment quality controls.
• Drive modernization of legacy applications through refactoring, cloud migration, microservices transformation, and AI-assisted development methodologies.
• Establish engineering productivity frameworks leveraging AI coding assistants, automated development workflows, and intelligent code generation.
• Architect secure AI and software platforms aligned with OWASP standards, Zero Trust principles, and enterprise cybersecurity requirements.
• Implement enterprise controls for HIPAA, PHI, PII, GDPR, and regulatory compliance across data, applications, and AI workloads.
• Integrate security validation throughout the development lifecycle using SAST, SCA, container scanning, secrets management, and policy-as-code frameworks.
• Design auditable AI systems with governance, lineage, traceability, access controls, and compliance monitoring capabilities.
• Design and implement AI Engineering Harnesses supporting build validation, quality gates, security scanning, automated testing, and deployment automation.
• Establish Enterprise DevSecOps Frameworks integrating:
  • Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
  • Software Composition Analysis (SCA)
  • Container Security Scanning
  • Dependency Management
  • Policy Compliance Validation
  • Infrastructure-as-Code Governance
• Lead implementation of performance benchmarking frameworks for APIs, AI models, applications, and distributed platforms.
• Build highly automated CI/CD pipelines enabling secure, reliable, and repeatable software delivery.
• Design and operationalize multi-agent software engineering ecosystems to accelerate architecture, development, testing, security review, and governance activities.
• Utilize specialized AI agents including:
  • Enterprise Architect Agent
  • Solution Architect Agent
  • Data Architect Agent
  • Backend Engineering Agent
  • Test Engineering Agent
  • Security Review Agent
  • Pull Request Review Agent
• Drive adoption of agent-based development workflows to improve engineering productivity, software quality, and delivery velocity.
• Leverage repository-wide reasoning, large-scale codebase analysis, architecture discovery, code modernization, and AI-assisted implementation patterns.
• Architect AI-powered developer experiences integrating intelligent code review, automated remediation, documentation generation, and engineering workflow automation.
• Design and implement scalable data and AI platforms leveraging Databricks, Snowflake, cloud-native services, and modern data architectures.
• Enable self-service analytics, conversational AI, semantic data access, and enterprise-scale data engineering capabilities.

Requirements

• Extensive hands-on experience using:
  • Visual Studio Code with GitHub Copilot
  • Claude Code
  • OpenAI Codex
  • Enterprise AI coding assistants
• Experience with:
  • Databricks Lakehouse
  • Databricks Genie
  • Delta Lake
  • ML/AI Pipelines
  • Snowflake Cortex/CoCo
  • Enterprise Data Governance

Location: Eden Prairie, MN - Onsite Full-time