AI Enterprise Architect

About the Role

Our client is seeking an AI Enterprise Architect to join their team as part of the CIO architecture organization, supporting enterprise AI platform and governance initiatives. The ideal candidate will have strong architecture leadership, the ability to translate complex AI concepts into actionable guidance, and a proven track record of influencing senior stakeholders to drive scalable, governed AI adoption.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise AI architecture strategy, patterns, and reference architectures that guide adoption of AI across Global Technology.
• Establish decision frameworks for AI platform selection, solution design, and deployment approaches, ensuring consistent and repeatable outcomes.
• Develop governance models, standards, and guardrails for AI and agentic solutions, aligning with security, risk, compliance, and control requirements.
• Drive enterprise consistency and reuse through AI patterns, templates, and guidance artifacts across AI platforms, agentic systems, retrieval architectures, and workflow automation.
• Lead architecture decisions for RAG, vector databases, semantic retrieval, enterprise knowledge architectures, and AI-ready data access, grounding, and contextual retrieval.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, software engineering, or distributed systems design.
• 8+ years of experience architecting AI/ML, NLP, or advanced analytics solutions.
• 2+ years of experience designing enterprise GenAI, RAG, and agentic AI solutions.
• Strong knowledge of LLMs, RAG, embeddings, vector databases, evaluation frameworks, and agent-based architectures.
• Experience with enterprise AI platforms such as Microsoft Copilot Studio, Azure AI services, Azure OpenAI, or equivalent technologies.

Qualifications

Local candidate only (Plano, TX) with a hybrid work model requiring 3 days onsite per week.

Pay

$70/hr.

Benefits

• Medical and Prescription Drug Plans
• Dental Plan
• Vision Plan
• Health Savings Account
• Health Flexible Spending Account
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
• Supplemental Life Insurance
• Short Term and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Business Travel Insurance
• 401(k), Plus Match
• Weekly Pay

What's in it for You?

• Opportunity to shape enterprise AI patterns, standards, and decision frameworks that enable practical, scalable, and governed solutions.
• Collaboration with CIO architecture teams, platform engineering, security, and risk partners to align AI capabilities with business and technology needs.
• Influence across multiple organizations and initiatives by translating complex AI concepts into clear guidance for technical and business audiences.
• Direct impact on responsible AI adoption through governance and architectural guardrails for AI and agentic systems.
• A role focused on enterprise interoperability and integration patterns, including AI Gateway, API Gateway, and MCP Gateway capabilities.