AI Solutions Architect

Essential Tasks Of The Job

• Solution Architecture & Technical Strategy
  • Design secure, scalable architectures for enterprise applications, AI agents, data integrations, workflow automation, and cloud or hybrid-cloud platforms.
  • Define reusable standards for APIs, identity, data access, deployment, monitoring, logging, testing, resilience, and human approval workflows.
  • Evaluate technical options and recommend whether to build, buy, configure, integrate, modernize, or retire a solution based on security, cost, reliability, and supportability.
  • Maintain architecture diagrams, data flows, technical decisions, system dependencies, and production support documentation.
• AI, Software & Integration Engineering
  • Lead and contribute to the development of applications, copilots, RAG solutions, custom AI agents, APIs, data pipelines, and automated workflows.
  • Design secure integrations with Microsoft 365, including Outlook, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, Entra ID, Microsoft Graph, Copilot, and approved Google Cloud and Gemini for Government services.
  • Use modern engineering practices and AI coding assistants to produce maintainable, tested, documented, and secure software.
  • Ensure AI solutions preserve source-system permissions, provide traceability, and include appropriate evaluation, monitoring, and human oversight.
• Cloud, Platform & Reliability Engineering
  • Design and support cloud, hybrid-cloud, Linux, containerized, and on-premises environments using Azure, GCP, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and related technologies.
  • Implement infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, CI/CD, automated testing, patching, secrets management, and repeatable deployment practices using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Bash, and PowerShell.
  • Establish observability, alerting, service reliability, backup, recovery, capacity, and incident-response standards for production systems.
  • Lead complex troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, vulnerability remediation, and corrective engineering actions.
• Security & Technical Leadership
  • Apply secure development, least-privilege access, encryption, vulnerability management, dependency scanning, container security, and software supply-chain controls.
  • Partner with cybersecurity, infrastructure, network, database, and operational teams to ensure solutions meet security and regulatory requirements.
  • Provide architecture reviews, code reviews, technical direction, training, and mentoring to junior developers and project teams.
  • Support innovation labs, prototypes, demonstrations, and production transitions associated with the strategy.

SECONDARY JOB TASKS

• Participate in technology planning, vendor evaluations, procurement reviews, platform upgrades, and application modernization efforts.
• Assist with technical interviews, consultant selection, statements of work, and vendor performance reviews.
• Perform Other Duties As Required.