Generative AI Architect

About the role

This role will provide central architectural support to translate business demand into production-ready AI solutions. The architect will establish enterprise standards and guardrails and reduce delivery risk across lines of business. This position is critical to scaling AI capabilities responsibly, protecting the firm, and maximizing the return on investment from strategic AI platforms.

Responsibilities

• Enable faster, safer AI adoption by defining reusable architectures and engineering patterns.
• Ensure regulatory, security, and model risk requirements are embedded by design.
• Reduce duplication and rework by aligning AI investments to a single enterprise roadmap.
• Improve solution quality, resiliency, and cost efficiency through architectural oversight.
• Design and deploy IVR, voice-driven, or headless Agentic AI solutions, including non-UI based conversational or event-driven systems.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in technology architecture and solution design, including 3+ years of hands-on software engineering.
• 2+ years of experience designing and delivering AI/LLM solutions in enterprise environments.
• Experience with conversational AI, contact center AI, or enterprise automation.
• Strong background in platform architecture, solution design, and hybrid (on-prem and cloud) deployments.

Technical Skills

• Proficiency with containers, Kubernetes/OpenShift, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Experience with AI orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and evaluation frameworks.

Professional Skills

• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and business stakeholders.
• Demonstrated leadership, collaboration, and mentoring capabilities.
• Experience in regulated industries such as financial services.
• Knowledge of multiple LLM providers and model serving strategies.
• Familiarity with headless AI agent architectures such as background automation, system-to-system agents, and asynchronous orchestration.
• Understanding of voice and multi-modal AI architectures including speech-to-text, text-to-speech, intent management, and conversational state handling.
• Familiarity with model risk management, AI governance, and safety testing.
• Relevant cloud, security, or data certifications.

Benefits

Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.