Solutions Architect

Principal Digital ArchitectPayrate: $76.00- $77.00/hr. Position's Contributions to Work Group:As a Principal Digital Architect, you will own the end-to-end architecture solutions for complex systems—balancing scalability, performance, security, and rapid delivery—while influencing Enterprise technology strategy. This role requires strong technical depth, architectural judgment, and the ability to translate ambiguous business needs into durable, scalable solutions.Typical task breakdown:Own and define solution and platform architectures for large scale, distributed systems from concept through production.Create architecture that meets high standards for scalability, performance, resilience, and security.Partner closely with business leaders, product owners, engineering managers, and delivery teams to ensure architectural alignment with business outcomes.Assess, select, and introduce new technologies, including proof of concept development and architectural spikes.Establish and enforce architectural standards, patterns, and best practices across platform teams.Provide architectural guidance and mentorship to engineering teams, ensuring high quality implementation.Ensure solutions meet security, compliance, and regulatory requirements.Produce and maintain clear architecture documentation, including rationale and tradeoffs.Continuously evolve platform architecture to improve developer productivity, system reliability, and cost efficiency.Education & Experience Required:Bachelor's degree with 5+ years' experience in this capacityRequired Technical SkillsArchitectural Thinking: Ability to decompose complex problem spaces and develop pragmatic architecture options with clearly articulated tradeoffs.Technical Leadership: Influence without authority; guide teams through architectural decisions and implementation challenges.Communication: Clearly articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.Requirements Analysis: Translate business and non-functional requirements into scalable technical designs.Platform & Application Architecture: Strong foundation in designing modern application and platform architectures using established patterns and standards.Requirements:Experience defining AI reference architectures and standards for enterprise adoption.Ability to explain and defend architectural tradeoffs between classical ML, LLM based approaches, and non-AI solutions.Proven experience taking AI systems from proof of concept to scaled production use.Strong programming background in Python and Java, with the ability to reason at code level.Proven experience designing and building enterprise scale, distributed systems.Hands on experience with cloud native architectures, including AWS services, containerization, and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).Deep understanding of data architecture: SQL and NoSQL databases, data warehouses (Snowflake specifically), data modeling, replication, and sharding.Experience with modern DevOps practices: CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, and automated testing.Strong API design experience (REST, GraphQL, gRPC), including versioning and documentation.Ability to evaluate and introduce emerging technologies aligned to business goals.AI Related Skills:Hands on experience designing Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures, including:Data ingestion pipelinesDocument preprocessing and chunking strategiesVectorization and embedding modelsQuery time retrieval, ranking, and context assemblyDeep understanding of embedding techniques, similarity search, and tradeoffs across:Vector dimensionsChunk size and overlapLatency vs. recall vs. costExperience with vector databases and search layers (e.g., managed or self-hosted vector stores) and their integration into application architectures.Experience with Agentic FrameworksAbility to architect end to end AI workflows, including:Prompt design and prompt versioningContext management and memory patternsModel routing and fallback strategiesKnowledge of LLM lifecycle considerations, including:Model selection (hosted vs. self-hosted)Fine tuning vs. RAG vs. hybrid approachesEvaluation, monitoring, and drift detectionStrong understanding of AI system nonfunctional requirements, including:Performance and latency optimizationCost controls and token efficiencySecurity, data privacy, and guardrailsExperience integrating AI capabilities into existing enterprise platforms via APIs and event driven architectures.Ability to assess, prototype, and productionize emerging AI technologies aligned to business use cases.Pay Transparency: The typical base pay for this role across the U.S. is: $76.00- $77.00/hour. Non-exempt positions are eligible for overtime at a rate of 1.5 times the base hourly rate for all hours worked in excess of 40 in a work week, or as required by state or local law. Final offer amounts, within the base pay set forth above, are determined by factors including your relevant skills, education and experience. Full-time employees are eligible to select from different benefits packages. Packages may include medical, dental, lifeion benefits, health savings accounts with qualified medical plan enrollment, 10 paid days off, 3 days paid bereavement leave, 401(k) plan participation with employer match, life and disability insurance, commuter benefits, dependent care flexible spending account, accident insurance, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, accommodations and reimbursement for work travel, and discretionary performance or recognition bonus. Sick leave and mobile phone reimbursement provided based on state or local law. 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