Senior Solutions Architect

We are seeking a Senior AI Solutions Architect to lead the architecture and development of scalable Generative AI, LLM, and RAG solutions. This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on architecture, Python development, AWS, and production AI applications.

Responsibilities

*Own the end-to-end architecture and technical design of LLM and Generative AI solutions.
*Translate business requirements into scalable solution architectures, technical plans, and development tasks.
*Define architecture standards, integration patterns, technical decisions, and engineering best practices.
*Provide technical direction, mentor engineers, and lead design and code reviews.
*Design and develop scalable Python APIs and microservices using FastAPI, Flask, or similar frameworks.
*Architect and implement LLM applications, LangChain workflows, and RAG pipelines.
*Define strategies for prompt engineering, embeddings, chunking, retrieval, re-ranking, and model evaluation.
*Design and optimize vector database solutions using Pinecone, Chroma, FAISS, Milvus, or similar technologies.
*Establish monitoring and evaluation for quality, relevance, latency, reliability, safety, and cost.
*Design secure, scalable, and resilient AI services on AWS, including Lambda, EC2, S3, EKS, and RDS.
*Partner with DevOps/MLOps teams on CI/CD, infrastructure automation, observability, incident response, and production support.
*Ensure solutions meet enterprise requirements for security, governance, availability, scalability, fault tolerance, and operational readiness.

Required Qualifications

*Extensive software engineering experience with technical leadership responsibilities.
*Strong hands-on Python and backend development experience.
*Experience with FastAPI, Flask, or comparable frameworks.
*Proven experience delivering production LLM/Generative AI and RAG applications.
*Strong knowledge of LLM architecture, prompt engineering, embeddings, vector databases, retrieval, re-ranking, and evaluation.
*Experience with OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face, LangChain, or similar platforms/frameworks.
*Strong AWS cloud architecture and deployment experience.
*Experience with microservices, APIs, cloud security, scalability, and distributed systems.
*Strong experience leading architecture/design reviews, code reviews, technical planning, and complex engineering initiatives.
*Ability to mentor engineers and influence technical decisions without formal management authority.

Preferred Skills

*Experience with MLOps, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and observability.
*Experience with enterprise AI governance, security, and responsible AI practices.
*Experience optimizing AI applications for performance, reliability, and cost.
*Experience working with cross-functional application, data, cloud, security, DevOps, and platform teams.