Lead AI Architect

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⚜️ Louisiana, North Carolina, +3 more states – Remote

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💵 $118.4k - $196.8k / year

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Highmark Health

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1852

🛡️ Insurance

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

💰 $5M Grant on 2021-05

Insurance • Consulting • Logistics

Highmark Health is a healthcare company committed to reinventing the healthcare system and improving its services for everyone. The organization offers a broad range of career opportunities across various fields such as clinical care, technology, finance, and marketing. Highmark Health emphasizes diversity, equity, and inclusion in its workforce, creating a supportive environment for employees from all backgrounds. The company has been recognized for its commitment to disability inclusion, diversity, and military-friendly employment. As an independent licensee of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Highmark Health strives to create remarkable healthcare experiences for its customers and employees alike.

📋 Description

• Define the end-to-end architecture for AI solutions, including data pipelines, model storage, inference engines, and front-end integration • Evaluate and select technology stacks, including LLMs, vector databases, and orchestration frameworks • Establish MLOps best practices for coding standards, model versioning, and deployment strategies • Design scalable systems for massive data throughput and low-latency inference • Architect human-in-the-loop systems and guardrails for privacy, compliance, and AI safety • Lead cross-functional alignment among Data Science, DevOps, Product, and infrastructure teams • Provide strategic consultation on business processes, organizational structures, and enabling technologies • Facilitate complex enterprise business solutions and contribute to enterprise strategy development • Specify and design complex systems, solutions, networks, infrastructure elements, and processes • Lead system design reviews and establish architecture-component selection policies • Evaluate complex design options and balance functional, service-quality, and systems-management requirements • Produce component requirements, specifications, and implementation designs • Advise on system development, integration, change requests, deviations, and technical processes • Lead significant improvement programs and architecture or business problem resolution • Serve as technical or business lead for highly complex project initiatives • Communicate with customers, partners, management, peers, and departments across the organization • Participate in customer, design, technical, and problem-resolution walkthroughs • Provide expert advice, leadership, mentoring, coaching, and training in architecture and technical areas • Prepare and present presentations on complex technical issues • Travel as required

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or closely related field required • 7 years in an IT discipline required • 7 years in a business discipline required • Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, API design, and cloud-native patterns • Proficiency designing complex schemas for structured and unstructured data • Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Ansible • Expert knowledge of AWS/SageMaker, Azure/Azure ML, or GCP/Vertex AI • Mastery of the AI lifecycle, including PyTorch/TensorFlow and Kubeflow, MLflow, or BentoML • Expert understanding of Generative AI, Transformer architectures, RAG, and fine-tuning methodologies • At least 3 years in an architectural role • Experience in enterprise integration and migrating legacy systems to AI-augmented workflows highly valued • Ability to mentor senior engineers and present complex architectural decisions to the C-suite • Ability to anticipate 12–24 months ahead in AI trends and prepare infrastructure accordingly • Cloud GPU/TPU cost optimization skills • Ability to document architectural patterns and lead technical design reviews • Travel required • Compliance with HIPAA, data security guidelines, company policies, and applicable laws and regulations • Preferred: Master’s Degree • Preferred: Health insurance industry business knowledge • Preferred: Industry certifications such as Java Developer, DB2, Cognos, PEGA, Enterprise Architect (SCEA), or Project Management • Relevant skills may include IMS, DB2, Oracle, Teradata, data warehousing, COBOL, Visual Basic, C, C++, SAS, Java/JavaScript, PEGA, CSS3, mobile, JSON, Cognos, Hadoop, SQL, J2EE, HTML5/XML, and Waterfall or Agile project management tools

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work / working at home • Base pay range of $118,400.00–$196,800.00 per year • Professional leadership and mentoring opportunities • Ad-hoc training opportunities