Enterprise Architect - AI

Role Summary
We are seeking a Principal Architect to help lead the next generation of AI-enabled product,platform, and engineering capabilities across our organization. This is a senior individualcontributor role operating at the highest levels of technical leadership. The ideal candidate willcombine deep AI architecture expertise with strong enterprise architecture judgment, practicaldelivery experience, and the ability to influence teams across business units.
This role will partner closely with business and technology leaders to shape product andplatform architectures, define and uphold enterprise standards, and help our engineeringorganization adopt modern AI and AI-powered software delivery practices responsibly andeffectively.
Key Responsibilities
Lead architecture for strategic AI initiatives across products, platforms, and shared enterprisecapabilities
Partner with business units, product leaders, and engineering teams to shape scalable,secure, and practical AI solution architectures
Define and evolve architecture standards, reference patterns, and guardrails for AI solutionsand AI-enabled software development
Evaluate emerging AI technologies, platforms, and patterns, and guide the organization onwhere and how to adopt them
Provide architectural leadership for capabilities, agentic workflows, AI orchestration,evaluations, AI observability, and AI governance
Ensure AI solutions align with enterprise requirements for security, privacy, compliance,resiliency, observability, and maintainability
Help engineering teams leverage AI-powered PDLC capabilities across coding, testing,documentation, analysis, and delivery workflows
Guide architecture decisions across application, data, integration, platform, and operationalconcerns to avoid fragmented or duplicative solutions
Mentor technical leads and senior engineers and contribute to raising the technical bar acrossthe organization
Participate in architecture reviews, technical strategy discussions, and investment decisionsrelated to AI and platform modernization
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s or masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalentpractical experience
12+ years of experience in software engineering, architecture, or technology leadership roles
Significant experience designing and guiding enterprise-grade AI solutions in productionenvironments
Deep knowledge of modern AI architecture patterns, including LLM-based applications,retrieval systems, agentic workflows, prompt and tool orchestration, and evaluationapproaches
Strong architecture background across distributed systems, APIs, integration, data platforms,security, and cloud-native solutions
Experience establishing architecture standards, reference architectures, and technicalguardrails across multiple teams
Proven ability to influence senior technical and business stakeholders without direct authority
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor communication fromengineering teams to executive leadership
Demonstrated ability to balance innovation, speed, risk management, and long-termmaintainability
Preferred Qualifications
Experience working in a large enterprise, platform-oriented environment
Experience with AI governance, responsible AI, model risk, privacy, and security controls
Familiarity with cloud AI platforms and services, vector search, AI gateways, observability,and production AI operations
Experience helping engineering organizations adopt AI-powered development tools andpractices
Experience defining reusable architecture patterns for shared enterprise AI capabilities
Experience mentoring architects or leading architecture communities of practice
Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or related field
What Success Looks Like
Business units have a strong architecture partner for AI-driven product and platformdecisions
The organization has clearer standards and reusable patterns for AI solutions
Teams adopt AI technologies faster and more safely
AI initiatives are better aligned to business value, enterprise platforms, and engineeringstandards
Engineering teams are better equipped to use AI-powered PDLC capabilities effectively andresponsibly
Leadership Expectations
This role is expected to operate as a senior technical leader across organizational boundaries.The Principal Architect will influence strategy, guide major technical decisions, coach others,and help establish the technical direction for enterprise AI adoption and architecture excellence.