Lead AI Architect
enGen · United States · 4 wk ago
RemoteRemoteArt & Creative$118k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: h3 headings for sections present: About the role? The posting includes JOB SUMMARY, responsibilities, qualifications, skills, benefits/pay, schedule? There's pay range given. No explicit benefits. No schedule. So we should include sections: About the role (maybe from JOB SUMMARY), Responsibilities (ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES), Requirements (Education, Experience, Licenses/Certifications maybe), Skills (list of technical proficiencies), Pay (Pay Range). Also maybe Qualifications? But we can combine Education/Experience as Requirements. Avoid filler headings.
We must not repeat job title. No Job ID. Remove boilerplate: compliance, EEO, etc. Also remove navigation, legal, etc. Keep substantive info.
We need to preserve all substantive info: JOB SUMMARY paragraph, responsibilities list (many bullet-like sentences). We need to convert to
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. The responsibilities are many sentences; we can treat each sentence as a list item. Similarly for requirements: Education, Experience, Licenses/Certifications. Skills: list of technologies.
We must not invent or summarize away detail. Keep all details.
We must not include sections with placeholder text. So only include sections where we have content.
Let's extract content.
JOB SUMMARY: "We are seeking a visionary AI Architect to serve as the technical cornerstone of our artificial intelligence strategy. While an AI Engineer builds the models, you will design the entire ecosystem they live in. You will be responsible for defining the high-level structure of our AI systems, ensuring they are scalable, secure, and seamlessly integrated with our enterprise infrastructure. As an Architect, you sit at the intersection of business value and technical feasibility, translating executive goals into robust technical blueprints. This role involves defining the end-to-end architecture for AI solutions, encompassing data pipelines, model storage, inference engines, and front-end integration. The individual will be responsible for evaluating and selecting the optimal "tech stack," including specific LLMs, vector databases, and orchestration frameworks, to meet the company's long-term needs. Key responsibilities also include establishing best practices for MLOps to ensure consistent coding standards, model versioning, and deployment strategies across the engineering team. The architect will design scalable systems capable of handling massive data throughput and low-latency inference for real-time applications. A critical aspect of the role is architecting "Human-in-the-loop" systems and guardrails to ensure data privacy, compliance (GDPR/CCPA), and AI safety. This position requires strong cross-functional leadership, acting as the technical liaison between Data Science, DevOps, and Product teams to align the AI roadmap with infrastructure capabilities. Candidates should possess architectural expertise, including a deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, API design, and cloud-native patterns. Proficiency in designing complex data schemas for both structured and unstructured data, as well as experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or Ansible to manage AI infrastructure, is required. Technical proficiencies include expert-level knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS (SageMaker), Azure (Azure ML), or GCP (Vertex AI). Mastery of the AI lifecycle, from frameworks like PyTorch/TensorFlow to deployment tools like Kubeflow, MLflow, or BentoML, is essential. An expert understanding of Generative AI, including Transformer architectures, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), and fine-tuning methodologies, is also a key qualification. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of 5+ years in software engineering or data science, with at least 3 years in an architectural role. Experience in enterprise integration, particularly in migrating legacy systems to AI-augmented workflows, is highly valued. This role also demands thought leadership, including the ability to mentor senior engineers and present complex architectural decisions to the C-suite. Essential competencies for this role include strategic thinking, with the ability to anticipate 12–24 months ahead in AI trends and prepare the infrastructure accordingly. Cost management skills, specifically optimizing cloud spend for GPU/TPU resources, are crucial. Exceptional communication skills are also required, demonstrated through the ability to document architectural patterns and lead technical design reviews."
That's a long paragraph; we can keep as
under About the role. Now ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES: It's a huge block of sentences. We need to turn each sentence into
- . Let's split by periods. But careful not to break abbreviations. We'll approximate.
Sentences:
1. Lead to provide strategic consultation to business customers in defining or designing business processes, functions and organizational structures, as well as in researching, identifying and internally marketing enabling technologies based on customer capability requirements.
2. Facilitate development of the most complex enterprise business solutions that combine knowledge of particular business processes and issues, general technological options, and process facilitation techniques.
3. Lead and participate in enterprise strategy development, including environmental analysis, opportunity identification, value cases and business innovation portfolio development.
4. Specify and design large or the most complex systems, solutions, networks, infrastructure elements, or processes.
5. Select appropriate design standards, methods and tools and ensures that they are applied effectively.
6. Lead reviews of others’ system design to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology.
7. Establish policy for selection of architecture components.
8. Evaluate and undertake impact analysis on the most complex major design options.
9. Ensure that the system architecture balances functional, service quality and systems management requirements.
10. Use appropriate tools, including models of components and interfaces, to contribute to the development of the most complex architectures.
11. Produce detailed component requirements, specifications and translates these into detailed solutions/designs for implementation using selected products.
12. Provide advice on technical aspects of system development, integration (including requests for changes, deviations from specifications, etc.) and processes.
13. Ensure that relevant technical and business strategies, policies, standards and practices are applied correctly.
14. Select and use tools and methods to establish, clarify, and communicate the functional and non-functional requirements of system users, their characteristics, and tasks.
15. Identify the technical, organizational, and physical environment in which the most complex products or systems will operate.
16. Identify, propose, initiate, and lead significant improvement programs, taking responsibility for the quality and appropriateness of the work performed and the realization of measurable business benefits.
17. Modify existing process improvement approaches and/or develop new approaches to achieving improvement.
18. Lead the resolution of a variety of architecture and business problems and serve as a technical or business lead for highly complex project initiatives.
19. Communicate effectively will all levels of organization (typo: will -> with)
20. Manage expectations of customers, partners and management
21. Participate in customer walkthroughs and plans; design and technical walkthroughs; and problem resolution and decision making
22. Interact with departments across the organization as necessary, including the development and interpretation of highly complex requirements for peers and other staff.
23. Maintain an in-depth knowledge of specific technical aspects in area of expertise and provides expert advice regarding their application.
24. The area of specific expertise may be any aspect of information or communication technology, technique, method, process, product, or application area.
25. Provide leadership and mentoring in the areas of expertise and architecture to their peers, developers, management and business users including technical expertise, coaching, and ad-hoc training by
26. Prepare presentations on complex issues on the area of expertise.
27. Present to their peers to ensure consistency to Highmark's strategic direction.
28. Other duties as assigned or requested.
We need to keep them as is, but fix minor grammar? We should not alter content? The instruction: preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. We can keep as is, even if typos. Probably okay.
Now EDUCATION: "Required Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or closely related field Substitutions None Preferred Master's Degree". We'll make list items: Required Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or closely related field; Substitutions None; Preferred Master's Degree.
EXPERIENCE: "Required 7 years in an IT discipline 7 years n a Business discipline Preferred Health insurance industry business knowledge". There's a typo "n a". We'll keep as is. So list items: Required 7 years in an IT discipline; Required 7 years n a Business discipline; Preferred Health insurance industry business knowledge.
LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS: "Required None Preferred Industry certifications such as Java Developer, DB2, Cogno, PEGA, Enterprise Architect(SCEA), Project Management". So list: Required None; Preferred Industry certifications such as Java Developer, DB2, Cogno, PEGA, Enterprise Architect(SCEA), Project Management.
SKILLS: The block: "An Architect is not required to have experience in all of these, but is required to have those needed to support applications they are responsible for supporting. Current skill set are reviewed every other year, new skills may be required to meet changing business needs. IMSDB2Oracle and Teradata DatabasesData WarehousingCOBALVisual BasicCC++SASJava/JavaScript FrameworkPEGACSS3MobileJSONCognosHadoopSQLJ2EEHTML5/XMLProject Management Tools Waterfall and/or Agile". This is messy. We need to extract list of skills. It seems like a concatenated list without spaces. We need to preserve as is? Probably we should keep the raw text as a paragraph? But rule: Use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Skills is a list, so we should make each skill as
- . However the text is not clearly delimited. We could split by capital letters? Might be too much. Perhaps better to keep as a
preserving the exact string, as it's not a clear list. The instruction: Use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Skills is a list, but the source is not a proper list; it's a blob. We could still treat each separated by spaces? But there are no spaces between many. Eg "IMSDB2Oracle and Teradata DatabasesData WarehousingCOBALVisual BasicCC++SASJava/JavaScript FrameworkPEGACSS3MobileJSONCognosHadoopSQLJ2EEHTML5/XMLProject Management Tools Waterfall and/or Agile". This seems like a jammed list. Might be better to keep as a
to avoid inventing separation. The rule says: Use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. If we cannot reliably parse, we could keep as
and note it's a skill set description. But that might violate instruction to use list for list. However the source is not a clear list; it's a paragraph describing skills. So we can treat as
. PAY: "Pay Range Minimum $118,400.00 Pay Range Maximum $196,800.00 Base pay is determined by a variety of factors including a candidate’s qualifications, experience, and expected contributions, as well as internal peer equity, market, and business considerations. The displayed salary range does not reflect any geographic differential Highmark may apply for certain locations based upon comparative markets." We'll make a
under Pay section. Schedule: none. Now we need to output HTML fragment with sections:
About the role
...JOB SUMMARY...
Responsibilities
- ... each responsibility as
- ...
Requirements
- ... education, experience, licenses/certifications as list items? Could combine. We'll make list items for each bullet.
But we need to avoid repeating headings if no content. We have content.
We must not include filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
Now produce HTML.
Let's craft.
First, About the role paragraph: copy JOB SUMMARY exactly.
Second, Responsibilities list: each sentence as
- . Ensure we keep the
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. If we cannot reliably parse, we could keep as
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Skills is a list, but the source is not a proper list; it's a blob. We could still treat each separated by spaces? But there are no spaces between many. Eg "IMSDB2Oracle and Teradata DatabasesData WarehousingCOBALVisual BasicCC++SASJava/JavaScript FrameworkPEGACSS3MobileJSONCognosHadoopSQLJ2EEHTML5/XMLProject Management Tools Waterfall and/or Agile". This seems like a jammed list. Might be better to keep as a