AI Architect

Job Title: AI Architect

Location: Remote

Job Type: Contract

Skills: AI, Azure Open AI, Azure Data factory (ADF), Copilot, AI

Role Summary

We are seeking a seasoned AI Architect with technology experience including 5 years in hands-on architecture leadership The ideal candidate will drive AI solutions from ideation to implementation lead performance finetuning actively participate in RFPs and presales and architect robust solutions leveraging Azure AI services Azure OpenAI Service Azure AI Search Azure ML Cognitive Services Deep expertise in RAG architectures LLMs and a broad sound knowledge of Microsoft technologies NET Azure M365 Power Platform DevOps is essential

Key Responsibilities

Architecture Technical Leadership

Own end-to-end AI solution architecture discovery use case selection PoC pilot production hardening and scale out

Define reference architectures for RAG retriever vector index chunking embeddings ranking orchestration LLM apps agents and multimodal pipelines on Azure

Provide technical direction across engineering teams applications data ML platform security ensuring solution integrity and adherence to Microsoft best practices

Lead design reviews threat modeling and governance AIOpsMLOps for reliability performance security and cost

Azure AI Solutioning Delivery

Architect solutions with Azure OpenAI Service Azure AI Search vector hybrid Azure AI Foundry Cognitive Services Language Speech Vision Prompt Flow Semantic Kernel

Integrate with Azure Functions App Service AKS Event Hub Service Bus Cosmos DBSQL DB Key Vault Private End points VNET and API Management

Translate business outcomes into solution blueprints backlogs epics nonfunctional requirements NFRs and operational runbooks

Drive Responsible AI guardrails content filters safety policies data privacy and compliance

Act as the technical owner and primary architectural contact for customers product managers and delivery leadership

Mentor engineers architects build reusable patterns libraries and accelerators

Lead and contribute to RFPsRFIs solution approach architecture diagrams delivery plan cost effort estimation BoQBoM assumptions risks and win themes

Run customer ideation workshops discovery sessions and executive briefings craft compelling value narratives and differentiators

Required Qualifications

15 years of relevant experience in software solution engineering with 5 years as Architect Lead Principal level

Proven track record driving AI solutions from ideation to implementation in enterprise environments

Expertise in RAG architectures and LLM application design prompting orchestration tool use grounding

Handson with Azure AI services

Azure OpenAI Service assistants LLM APIs prompt engineering costperf controls

Azure AI Search vector search hybrid retrieval custom scoring reranking

Azure ML training deployment model registry pipelines

Cognitive Services Language Speech Vision

Strong performance engineering skills load testing profiling token optimization caching autoscaling GPUCPU sizing and telemetry

RFPPre Sales experience solutioning proposal authoring estimations and customer workshops

Microsoft technologies NETC ASPNET Core Azure PaaS GitHub AZURE DevOps Power PlatformM365 SQL Server Cosmos DB API Management Event HubService Bus

Solid grounding in security compliance identity Entra ID VNETPE Key Vault encryption data governance Responsible AI practices

Excellent communication stakeholder management and documentation skills