AI Architect

Title: Cloud and Agentic AI Architect

Duration: Long Term

Location: Washington, DC 20433

Hybrid Onsite: 4 days per week from Day 1, with a full transition to 100% onsite anticipated soon.

Essential Job Functions:

·       Lead design of multiple simultaneous projects, develop and maintain core architectural constructs, provide architectural leadership to relevant teams from various location across the globe.

·       Architect solutions across multiple IT environments and Business system components, envision solution for projects / programs / applications.

·       Research, evaluate, and select from existing and emerging technologies the options best fitting business and IT strategic needs

·       Communicate critical technical choices, specify requirements and constraints for design and implementation, and provide input for scoping the level effort for development projects

·       Provide a long-term vision for the platform, taking into account changes in technology within the context of ITS current implementation and our feature roadmap

·       Advise on deployment strategies for new features and components, assessing if rollout plans are safe, progressive, and reversible

·       In-depth understanding of the business environment, its processes and complexities of the corporation and apply the knowledge towards the proposed work program.

·       Design and validate solutions that are practical, flexible, scalable, reusable, and strategic

·       Coordinate effort within different IT groups including Enterprise Architecture, Office of Information Security, Data Management Office as and when needed.

·       Interact with the Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Platform teams to ensure that solutions are built in adherence with the defined enterprise standards.

·       Contribute to the development of a body of generally applicable methods, procedures, and deliverables.

·       Recognize and identify potential areas where existing policies and procedures require change, or where new ones need to be developed, especially regarding future business expansion.

·       Present, discuss, and walk through the merits of the solutions recommendations with a group of enterprise architects.

·       Institute and lead the adoption of best practices and standards, to improve the quality of the deliverables.

·       Ensure best practices are adhered to in the adoption of new technologies.

·       Manage daily technical challenges and communicate with management if there are any risks or issues.

·       Stay abreast of the latest technologies and tools being used to improve IT development and delivery.

·       Understanding of security best practices and standards.

Educational Qualifications and Experience:

·       Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or relevant field.

·       15+ years of IT experience, with recent experience in Agentic AI, Gen AI projects.

·       Experience in the design and delivery of enterprise architecture products and artifacts.

·       Experience working with clients in multiple domains and executed multi-year projects working in a multi-vendor environment.

·       Up to date with new trends, best practices and range of tools used in projects and applications.

Required Skills/Abilities:

·       Facilitate cloud architecture workshops with business stakeholders and hyperscaler vendors.

·       Demonstrated experience designing and governing enterprise-scale multi cloud architectures across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and/or OCI, including hybrid and on prem integrations.

·       Proven ability to evaluate, integrate, and adopt emerging technologies, including AI/ML and agentic AI, while ensuring enterprise governance and operational readiness.

·       Proven ability to embed security, compliance, resiliency, and FinOps controls by design, working closely with security and risk stakeholders.

·       Strong track record leading end to end solution design for PaaS, SaaS, containerized, and AI enabled workloads in complex enterprise environments.

·       Hands on experience establishing standardized integration patterns across IAM, networking, SIEM, DevSecOps, CI/CD, and observability platforms.

·       Demonstrated expertise in automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), with strong scripting skills to support scalable, repeatable platform delivery.

·       Knowledge in the development of application standards, architecture products, artifacts, and standardization processes.

·       Good knowledge of one or more areas of architecture practice.

·       Excellent communication, writing, documentation and facilitation skills.

·       Ability to juggle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.

·       Strong diplomatic, interpersonal, and teamwork skills.

·       High level of creativity and lateral thinking.

·       Ability to provide training, coaching support for architecture projects.

·       Exceptional communication skills and ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization (this includes written and verbal communications, as well as visualizations).

·       Ability to act as liaison conveying information in suitably accurate models between the business unit and their counterparts within Information Technology.

·       Self-starter with the skills to lead a team.

·       Proven conceptual, analytical, and judgmental skills.

·       Ability to work directly with clients and management without supervision and to facilitate and navigate discussions with stakeholders to ensure clarity, prioritization, and consensus.

·       Ability to work with different points-of-view and lead the team to convergence, while always keeping the project objectives in sight.

·       Excellent personal organization skills and ability to take things to closure without follow-ups.

EEO:

“Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of – Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.”