AI Solutions Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Colorado, +7 more locations.

📋 Description

• Transform business challenges, workflows, constraints, and desired outcomes into well-defined AI solution designs.

• Advise on whether to configure, automate, build, buy, integrate, or forgo a solution.

• Develop internal AI solutions from initial prototype to regulated release and ongoing enhancement.

• Specify requirements, architecture, dependencies, risks, delivery estimates, and success metrics.

• Balance trade-offs among user experience, quality, speed, cost, maintainability, and risk.

• Construct reusable solution patterns, components, skills, agents, prompts, and knowledge frameworks.

• Manage AI solutions post-launch, including aspects of quality, reliability, feedback, adoption, cost, and continuous enhancement.

• Set up evaluation, monitoring, issue management, and human-review processes.

• Diagnose solution behavior and coordinate resolutions across platforms, configurations, knowledge sources, and dependencies.

• Keep documentation, release notes, support guidance, and ownership records up to date.

• Retire, redesign, or consolidate unsupported or low-value solutions.

• Collaborate with IT, Enterprise Systems, and Security regarding identity, permissions, data access, environments, supportability, and production readiness.

• Facilitate technical reviews, resolve obstacles, and ensure sustainable ownership.

• Review and prioritize AI solution requests and maintain a structured delivery roadmap.

• Communicate scope, decisions, status, and dependencies to stakeholders and the VP of AI Enablement.

• Assess AI workloads based on cost, quality, latency, usage, and business value.

• Recommend changes to models, platforms, or architecture to optimize costs and outcomes.

• Validate new models and feature releases against PAR use cases.

• Assist leadership reporting with technical status updates, forecasts, usage patterns, and optimization opportunities.

• Ensure compliance with standards for data handling, access, permissions, documentation, and auditability.

• Engage in the development of AI policies and standards.

• Establish quality gates for prototypes, limited releases, and broader deployments.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in designing and implementing AI-powered solutions, agents, automations, or internal tools utilized by actual business teams.

• Strong judgment in solution architecture.

• Practical experience with enterprise AI platforms such as Claude Enterprise, Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, Azure AI, or similar tools.

• Capability to build and configure AI solutions using system instructions, knowledge sources, tool utilization, workflow logic, structured outputs, and suitable human review.

• Proficiency in evaluating platform configurations, agents, workflow automation, lightweight applications, integrations, or no-build solutions.

• Experience in taking prototypes through testing, permissions, documentation, monitoring, support planning, and iterative enhancement.

• Working knowledge of APIs, MCP, webhooks, and enterprise integration patterns.

• Familiarity with Microsoft 365, SharePoint, and Azure environments.

• Ability to convey technical decisions, risks, and trade-offs to non-technical business leaders.

• Strong skills in prioritization and delivery management.

• Preferred: experience in delivering internal AI solutions across multiple corporate functions in a SaaS or complex enterprise environment.

• Preferred: experience collaborating with IT, Enterprise Systems, Security, Legal, or enterprise architecture teams.

• Preferred: experience with AI-assisted development tools.

• Preferred: knowledge of AI governance, data classification, access controls, and audit requirements.

• Preferred: experience in measuring adoption, productivity impact, solution quality, and cost post-launch.

• Prepared to showcase two AI solutions personally designed and delivered.

• Legally authorized to work in the U.S. or Canada.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligibility for bonuses.

• Potential for additional compensation, including commission and/or equity, as applicable.

• Equal employment opportunities.

• Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.