Lead AI Solution Architect

About the role

Join our AI & Engineering team in transforming technology platforms, driving innovation, and helping make a significant impact on our clients' success. You'll work alongside talented professionals reimagining and re-engineering operations and processes that are critical to businesses. Your contributions can help clients improve financial performance, accelerate new digital ventures, and fuel growth through innovation.

AI & Engineering leverages cutting-edge engineering capabilities to build, deploy, and operate integrated/verticalized sector solutions in software, data, AI, network, and hybrid cloud infrastructure. These solutions are powered by engineering for business advantage, transforming mission-critical operations. We enable clients to stay ahead with the latest advancements by transforming engineering teams and modernizing technology & data platforms. Our delivery models are tailored to meet each client's unique requirements.

Engineering as a Service provides complete design, implementation, and technology operations, leveraging our core engineering expertise. We transform engineering teams, modernize technology, and deliver complex programs with a product engineering approach. Our flexible delivery models—traditional teams, pools, or pods—are tailored to each client's needs, offering engineering-led advisory, implementation, and operational capabilities to accelerate innovation.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of enterprise-grade application architecture applications and platforms, with a focus on scaling for production. This includes defining the technical architecture, selecting appropriate technologies, and ensuring solutions are robust, scalable, and secure.
• Design and deploy applications using Cloud Native principles on a hyperscaler platform (AWS, Azure, GCP). Leverage a wide range of hyperscaler tools and services, including containers (Docker, Kubernetes), serverless functions, and managed databases.
• Leverage various GenAI tools to accelerate software development life cycle.
• Manage day-to-day interactions with executive clients and sponsors.
• Manage and deliver components of client engagements that identify, design, and implement technology and creative business solutions for large companies.
• Identify business requirements, functional design, process design (including scenario design, flow mapping), prototyping, testing, training, and define support procedures.
• Assist clients with application architecture design, assessment and optimization including definition, documentation and implementation of new application architectures.
• Review and evaluate key attributes of existing application architectures and recommend and validate improvements.
• Develop and maintain contact with top decision makers at key clients; participate and lead aspects of the proposal development process; contribute to the development of proposal pricing strategies.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 8+ years' experience as an Application Architect, with a strong focus on application development and scaling solutions for production environments.
• 6+ years providing hands-on technical leadership to the delivery team, reviewing designs and code for architectural fit, monitoring engineers and serving as the primary technical liaison between business stakeholders and engineering.
• 6+ years working on large-scale engagements as an Application or Solution Architect in industry or in consulting.
• Hands-on experience in Java, Python, or .NET.
• Experience managing large on and offshore teams.
• Experience owning the end-to-end solution architecture which includes defining integration patterns, data flows, and technical design decisions across systems.
• Experience driving the technical delivery on-site (not remotely), translating business requirements into detailed technical designs, sequencing work across integration and data layers, ensuring the solution is built to spec from design to deployment.
• Deep understanding of AI/ML concepts, including experience with LLMs and their application in enterprise settings.
• Familiarity with various hyperscaler tools and services.
• Hyperscaler Architect certification is required (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or GCP Professional Cloud Architect).
• Experience working closely with the functional and testing teams to understand their requirements and gauging the impact to the application architecture.
• Experience leading the configuration and change management teams responsible for application deployments including the coordination of database changes and other necessary application configurations.
• 3+ years implementing CI/CD and DevSecOps with Cloud Build, GitHub Actions or Jenkins.
• Ability to travel up to 50% nationally based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for sponsorship, now or any time in the future.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with architecture design patterns such as MVP or MVC, Gang of Four, etc.
• Experience with JQuery, JavaScript and common JavaScript Patterns.
• Experience or passion for implementing cloud solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform.
• Leading Testing efforts, including all phases: System, Integration, and Performance Testing and ensuring traceability.
• Master's degree in computer science or engineering.

Pay

A reasonable estimate of the current range is $141,200 to $278,300. You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, the individual, and organizational performance.