Principal AI Architect

🕒 4 days ago

🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

💵 $190.6k - $286k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🤖 AI Engineer

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TEKsystems

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1983

💼 Consulting

🎯 Recruiter

🏢 Enterprise

Consulting • Recruitment • Enterprise

TEKsystems is a global IT and business services firm that provides technology consulting, talent solutions, managed services and workforce recruitment to enterprise clients. The company delivers cloud, digital and data services (including AI/ML and automation), application innovation, Agile/DevOps transformation, technology operations and digital experience work, and operates large-scale talent and managed service programs. TEKsystems works across industries (financial services, healthcare, public sector, telecommunications, retail/manufacturing, energy and more), maintains technology partnerships with major cloud and software providers, and reports more than $7B in annual revenue and 100+ locations worldwide.

📋 Description

• Define end-to-end architecture for large, complex AI programs spanning enterprise rollout, custom agent and application development, integration, security, governance, observability, and operations • Establish target-state architecture, guardrails, and decision frameworks aligned with business priorities, engineering constraints, and delivery execution • Serve as escalation point for complex architecture, integration, performance, and governance challenges • Lead AI discovery and readiness assessments, architecture workshops, prototypes, proofs of concept, and technical evaluations • Join solution calls and lead architecture on customer engagements • Build relationships with senior client stakeholders and present architecture options, tradeoffs, roadmaps, and AI strategy • Guide enterprise rollouts of Claude, including adoption strategy, security and access design, integration, and measurable usage outcomes • Lead the design and build of custom agents, applications, and solutions using Anthropic APIs and SDKs through production and ongoing optimization • Lead and coordinate architects and technical leads, ensuring technical quality, risk management, and alignment to client outcomes • Define technical and business success criteria and use evaluation, observability, reliability, and adoption signals to guide optimization • Manage the working relationship with Anthropic and future technology partners • Collaborate with AWS, Azure, GCP, and Salesforce teams • Review customer solutions using Claude through platforms such as Amazon Bedrock and advise on model and agent architecture • Mentor architects, engineers, and technical leads • Support recruiting, interviewing, talent development, and succession planning • Build AI offerings, accelerators, reusable assets, reference architectures, and technical standards • Contribute thought leadership through workshops, enablement, and client-facing artifacts • Design AI solutions with identity, least-privilege access, sensitive data protection, human-in-the-loop controls, limited agent authority, and auditability • Address prompt injection, adversarial risks, privacy, compliance, cost management, evaluation, monitoring, and release acceptance criteria • Support pre-sales and pursuit activities, including solution strategy, estimates, risk reviews, staffing assumptions, and executive-level client conversations • Partner with Solution Architects, Solution Executives, and delivery leaders to shape commercially sound, technically credible solutions

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline • 10+ years of experience in enterprise technology, software engineering, cloud, architecture, or professional services, including 5+ years leading architecture for complex enterprise solutions • Deep hands-on experience with at least one major cloud or enterprise platform such as AWS, Azure, GCP, or Salesforce, including design and delivery for enterprise clients • 2+ years of hands-on experience designing and delivering production generative AI, LLM, and agentic solutions, with demonstrated experience using Claude and/or comparable frontier models • Experience architecting and deploying solutions using Claude API, Claude Code, Claude for Enterprise, Anthropic agent development tooling, and agent integration standards and patterns such as MCP • Experience deploying through Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, and Microsoft Azure • Strong technical competency in agent and multi-agent orchestration, tool/function calling, memory and state management, RAG, vector and hybrid retrieval, prompt and context engineering, model and agent evaluation, observability, and production AI operations • Experience integrating AI and agentic solutions with enterprise applications, APIs, data platforms, identity systems, and business workflows • Strong understanding of security, governance, reliability, and cost optimization • Hands-on experience with Python and one or more additional programming or scripting languages, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code • Demonstrated success leading large, complex programs across multiple teams, including architecture review boards and decision-making in ambiguous or high-pressure environments • Strong executive communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences • Ability to travel up to 25% to client locations and work effectively across distributed teams and time zones • Relevant cloud or AI certifications are preferred but not required • Equivalent hands-on experience designing and delivering production AI solutions will be considered

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision • Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital coverage • 401(k) Retirement Plan with pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions • Life Insurance (Voluntary Life and AD&D for employee and dependents) • Short and Long-Term Disability • Health Spending Account (HSA) • Transportation Benefits • Employee Assistance Program • Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave) • Additional earnings may be available through annual bonuses and profit sharing

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