AI Solutions Architect - Hybrid - In Person Interview

****In Person Interview*** Long term project ***Linkedin Must***Hybrid***Local candidates only***

Job Description:

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of secure, scalable AI and Agentic AI solutions aligned with DES mission, policies, and public-sector standards.
• Define end-to-end AI architectures including data ingestion, RAG pipelines, LLM orchestration, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
• Provide technical leadership, relevant architectural documentations for approvals, and guidance to internal teams and system integrators.
• Ensure compliance with State of Arizona security, privacy, accessibility, and data-governance requirements (PII, HIPAA, CJIS where applicable).
• Establish reference architectures and best practices for responsible, ethical, and compliant AI use across DES.
• Evaluate and integrate AI platforms, cloud services, and vendor solutions in coordination with procurement and legal teams.
• Design architectures that support explainability, auditability, bias mitigation, and transparency in decision-support systems.
• Collaborate with DevOps (cloud ops), cybersecurity, and data teams to operationalize AI solutions from proof of concept to production systems.
• Support AI strategy, roadmap development, and executive briefings to scale AI capabilities across DES programs.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Skills Required

• AI Development with Agentic AI and Azure OpenAI
• LLM, ML, RAG, and human-in-the-loop workflows
• Net (C#, VB.Net), HTML, JavaScript, and advanced automation tools (OCR, IDP, AI/ML)
• Demonstrable written and oral communication skills
• Ability to design and implement AI agentic solutions from business and technical requirements
• Ability to develop technical specifications, designs, and architecture artifacts
• Ability to break down business problems into logical tasks and think creatively
• Ability to perform code analysis to understand how code is implemented
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and changing priorities

Skills Preferred

• Azure DevOps, Git, CI/CD
• Familiarity with using API/Services (REST & SOAP services), MS Office, Google Suite, OnBase Unity Client
• Continues to educate and mentor developers in best practice
• Experience with agile development Scrum, Trello, Kanban, SAFe, Lean principles and software development life cycle (SDLC) and ITIL Process