Principal Architect, AI Solutions

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Illinois.

📋 Description

• Direct the architectural framework for strategic AI initiatives spanning products, platforms, and shared enterprise capabilities.

• Collaborate with business units, product leaders, and engineering teams to design scalable, secure, and effective AI solution architectures.

• Establish and refine architecture standards, reference patterns, and guidelines for AI solutions.

• Assess new AI technologies, platforms, and patterns, offering guidance on their adoption within the organization.

• Deliver architectural leadership for capabilities, agentic workflows, AI orchestration, evaluations, AI observability, and AI governance.

• Ensure that AI solutions meet enterprise criteria for security, privacy, compliance, resiliency, observability, and maintainability.

• Assist engineering teams in utilizing AI-powered Product Development Life Cycle (PDLC) capabilities across coding, testing, documentation, analysis, and delivery processes.

• Steer architectural decisions across application, data, integration, platform, and operational domains to prevent fragmented or redundant solutions.

• Mentor technical leads and senior engineers, contributing to enhancing the technical standards throughout the organization.

• Engage in architecture reviews, technical strategy discussions, and investment decisions pertaining to AI and platform modernization.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Over 12 years of experience in software engineering, architecture, or technology leadership positions.

• Extensive experience in designing and guiding enterprise-level AI solutions in production settings.

• Profound understanding of contemporary AI architecture patterns.

• Strong architectural expertise across distributed systems, APIs, integration, data platforms, security, and cloud-native solutions.

• Experience in establishing architecture standards, reference architectures, and technical guidelines across multiple teams.

• Demonstrated ability to influence senior technical and business stakeholders without direct authority.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the capability to adapt communication styles from engineering teams to executive leadership.

🏝️ Benefits

• 401(k) plan with matching contributions from the company.

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental & Vision Care.

• Paid parental leave at 100% of salary.

• Paid Time Off and Company Holidays.

• Early access to earned wages through Daily Pay.