AI Solution Architect

Contract type: C2C

Title: AI Solution Architect

Location: Bellevue, WA

Skills

Mandatory Skills : Azure Cloud Architecture, Python
Good to Have Skills : .Net Core, AI/GenAI Research

Role Summary

We are seeking a seasoned AI Architect with 15 years of overall technology experience including 5 years in handson architecture leadership The ideal candidate will drive AI solutions from ideation to implementation lead performance finetuning actively participate in RFPs and presales and architect robust solutions leveraging Azure AI services Azure OpenAI Service Azure AI Search Azure ML Cognitive Services Deep expertise in RAG architectures LLMs and a broad sound knowledge of Microsoft technologies NET Azure M365 Power Platform DevOps is essential

Required Qualifications

15 years in software solution engineering with 5 years as Architect Lead Principal level

Proven track record driving AI solutions from ideation to implementation in enterprise environments

Expertise in RAG architectures and LLM application design prompting orchestration tooluse grounding

Handson with Azure AI services

Azure OpenAI Service assistants LLM APIs prompt engineering costperf controls

Azure AI Search vector search hybrid retrieval custom scoring reranking

Azure ML training deployment model registry pipelines

Cognitive Services Language Speech Vision

Strong performance engineering skills load testing profiling token optimization caching autoscaling GPUCPU sizing and telemetry

RFP/Presales experience solutioning proposal authoring estimations and customer workshops

Microsoft technologies NETC ASPNET Core Azure PaaS GitHub Azure DevOps Power PlatformM365 SQL Server Cosmos DB API Management Event HubService Bus

Solid grounding in security compliance identity Entra ID VNETPE Key Vault encryption data governance Responsible AI practices

Excellent communication stakeholder management and documentation skills