Principal AI Solutions Architect

Salary: $215,000 - 300,000 per year Requirements:

• We require a bachelors or masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent hands-on experience.
• We need 12+ years of experience in software engineering, architecture, or technology leadership.
• You should have substantial experience designing and directing enterprise-scale AI solutions in production.
• You need strong expertise in modern AI architecture patterns, including LLM-based applications, retrieval systems, agentic workflows, prompt and tool orchestration, and evaluation methods.
• You should bring a solid architecture foundation spanning distributed systems, APIs, integration, data platforms, security, and cloud-native environments.
• We expect experience defining architecture standards, reference designs, and technical guardrails across multiple teams.
• You must be able to influence senior technical and business stakeholders without formal authority.
• You need excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to adapt messaging for engineers and executive leaders.
• You should demonstrate the ability to balance innovation, delivery speed, risk control, and long-term maintainability.
• Preferred: experience in a large enterprise, platform-centric environment.
• Preferred: experience with AI governance, responsible AI, model risk, privacy, and security controls.
• Preferred: familiarity with cloud AI platforms and services, vector search, AI gateways, observability, and production AI operations.
• Preferred: experience helping engineering teams adopt AI-powered development tools and working methods.
• Preferred: experience creating reusable architecture patterns for shared enterprise AI capabilities.
• Preferred: experience mentoring architects or leading communities of practice.
• Preferred: a masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field.

• We lead architecture for strategic AI initiatives across products, platforms, and shared enterprise capabilities.
• We partner with business units, product leaders, and engineering teams to design scalable, secure, and practical AI solution architectures.
• We define and evolve architecture standards, reference patterns, and guardrails for AI solutions and AI-enabled software development.
• We evaluate emerging AI technologies, platforms, and patterns, and advise on where and how to adopt them.
• We provide architectural leadership for capabilities such as agentic workflows, AI orchestration, evaluations, AI observability, and AI governance.
• We ensure AI solutions align with enterprise expectations for security, privacy, compliance, resiliency, observability, and maintainability.
• We help engineering teams use AI-powered PDLC capabilities across coding, testing, documentation, analysis, and delivery workflows.
• We guide architecture decisions across application, data, integration, platform, and operational areas to prevent fragmented or duplicate solutions.
• We mentor technical leads and senior engineers while helping raise the technical bar across the organization.
• We participate in architecture reviews, technical strategy discussions, and investment decisions tied to AI and platform modernization.

• AI
• Architect
• Cloud
• LLM
• Security
• Support
• Mobile

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We are JLL, a global leader in real estate and investment management services, and we combine world-class services, advisory expertise, and technology to shape a better future for our clients and communities. This is a senior Principal Architect role based remotely in Chicago, IL, focused on leading the next generation of AI-enabled product, platform, and engineering capabilities across our organization. We offer a supportive culture and comprehensive benefits that prioritize mental, physical, and emotional well-being, including a 401(k) with company match, medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid parental leave at 100% of salary, paid time off and company holidays, and early wage access through Daily Pay. We value growth, inclusion, and meaningful careers, and we encourage applicants even if they do not meet every requirement. The estimated compensation for this role is 215,000 to 300,000 USD per year, with final packages based on qualifications, location, market conditions, and internal considerations.

last updated 33 week of 2026