AI Solution Architect - Enterprise AI Platform

Company Description

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At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world's most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

As an AI Solution Architect, you will help define and evolve the company's enterprise AI platform used across the organization to power AI-assisted workflows, enterprise knowledge retrieval, and next-generation AI capabilities.

This is a highly technical, hands-on architecture role focused on building secure, scalable, observable AI systems in production. You will work at the intersection of LLM engineering, Azure cloud architecture, enterprise integrations, and AI platform engineering.

Unlike traditional architecture roles, this position requires deep technical engagement. You will prototype emerging AI capabilities, evaluate new technologies, guide implementation patterns, and help shape the future architecture of enterprise AI across the organization.

You will define the architectural runway for future capabilities including agent orchestration, retrieval systems, enterprise integrations, and emerging AI infrastructure patterns while staying closely aligned with engineering delivery.

This is not simply a chatbot platform. It is a rapidly evolving enterprise AI platform that integrates organizational knowledge, tools, retrieval systems, orchestration frameworks, and future AI capabilities into a unified experience used at enterprise scale.

This position will offer flexibility for hybrid work schedules to include both in-office presence and telecommute/virtual work, to be based from either Houston or Dallas, TX.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and evolve scalable AI platform architecture for LLM integration, RAG pipelines, enterprise retrieval systems, and agent-based workflows

• Architect production-grade AI systems including retrieval strategies, vector search patterns, orchestration layers, observability, and enterprise integrations

• Lead technical spikes, proof-of-concepts, and platform experimentation for emerging AI technologies and orchestration frameworks

• Evaluate and operationalize technologies such as MCP, orchestration frameworks, Azure AI services, and enterprise AI infrastructure capabilities

• Establish standards for observability, monitoring, reliability, security, and cost optimization for AI services operating at enterprise scale

• Conduct architecture reviews and code reviews while guiding engineers through implementation and delivery execution

• Build reusable architectural patterns and reference implementations to accelerate future platform capabilities

• Influence the future architecture and extensibility of the company's enterprise AI platform

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree plus at least 10 years of distributed systems or enterprise platforms experience, cloud-native systems, or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education

• Experience deploying AI/LLM-powered systems into production environment

• Proven hands-on experience designing and implementing production RAG architectures

• Strong experience with Azure cloud services and enterprise cloud architecture

• Experience building scalable APIs, distributed systems, and enterprise integrations

• Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, alerting, and production reliability practices

• Comfortable operating hands-on while leading architectural direction and implementation quality

• Experience guiding engineering teams through architecture reviews and technical decision-making

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building enterprise AI platforms or large-scale internal AI assistant systems

• Familiarity with agent orchestration frameworks, MCP (Model Context Protocol), and multi-agent architectures

• Experience with Azure API Management, AKS, Kubernetes, or cloud-native platform infrastructure

• Experience with AI observability and evaluation tooling for production AI systems

• Exposure to DevOps, DevSecOps, or MLOps practices

• Experience evaluating emerging AI technologies and operationalizing them in enterprise environments

Additional Information

• Relocation assistance is not available for this position

• Sponsorship for US work authorization is not available for this position, now or in the future.

At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

Offered rate of compensation will be based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. The range for this position is $180000 to $240000.

About AECOM

AECOM is proud to offer comprehensive benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees. Depending on your employment status, AECOM benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability benefits, paid time off, leaves of absences, voluntary benefits, perks, flexible work options, well-being resources, employee assistance program, business travel insurance, service recognition awards, retirement savings plan, and employee stock purchase plan.

AECOM is the global infrastructure leader, committed to delivering a better world. As a trusted professional services firm powered by deep technical abilities, we solve our clients' complex challenges in water, environment, energy, transportation and buildings. Our teams partner with public- and private-sector clients to create innovative, sustainable and resilient solutions throughout the project lifecycle - from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm that had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. Learn more at aecom.com.

What makes AECOM a great place to work

You will be part of a global team that champions your growth and career ambitions. Work on groundbreaking projects - both in your local community and on a global scale - that are transforming our industry and shaping the future. With cutting-edge technology and a network of experts, you'll have the resources to make a real impact. Our award-winning training and development programs are designed to expand your technical expertise and leadership skills, helping you build the career you've always envisioned. Here, you'll find a welcoming workplace built on respect, collaboration and community-where you have the freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in your potential and are here to help you achieve it. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

ReqID: J10152449

Business Line: Corporate

Business Group: Corporate

Strategic Business Unit: Information Technology

Career Area: Information Technology

Work Location Model: Hybrid

Compensation: USD 180000 - USD 240000 - yearly