AI Architect

Position

AI Architect

Location

Eden Prairie, MN

Duration

Fulltime

Job Description

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

Enterprise AI Architect with Full Development Experience (FDE), possessing deep expertise in architecture, hands-on software engineering, AI-assisted development, Agentic AI frameworks, DevSecOps, platform engineering, cloud-native solutions, and enterprise data platforms. Proven ability to architect, develop, secure, automate, andoperationalize large-scale AI and software solutions while driving engineering excellence through GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Codex. Databricks Genie, Snowflake Cortex, and modern AI-powered software delivery practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Enterprise AI & Solution Architecture
• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of enterprise-scale AI solutions using modern architectural patterns, clean architecture principles, domain-driven design (DDD), and cloud-native technologies.
• Define enterprise AI reference architectures, engineering standards, development frameworks, and implementation guardrails to ensure scalability, maintainability, security, and operational excellence.
• Drive adoption of Agentic AI, AI-powered software engineering, and intelligent automation across the software deliverylifecycle.
• Architect solutions with built-in observability, resilience, governance, security, and compliance from inception through

production deployment.

• Partner with business, engineering, security, and platform teams to align AI capabilities with enterprise technology

strategy and business outcomes.

• Full Development Experience (FDE) and Engineering Excellence
• Demonstrate hands-on full-stack development experience spanning frontend, backend, APIs, data platforms, cloudservices, and AI-enabled applications.
• Lead development teams in implementing modern engineering practices including test-driven development (TDD), CI/CD automation, code quality enforcement, and platform engineering standards.
• Define and enforce software engineering best practices with mandatory automated test coverage, code reviews, architecture reviews, and deployment quality controls.
• Drive modernization of legacy applications through refactoring, cloud migration, microservices transformation, and

AI-assisted development methodologies.

• Establish engineering productivity frameworks leveraging AI coding assistants, automated development workflows, andintelligent code generation.
• Secure-by-Design AI Platforms
• Architect secure AI and software platforms aligned with OWASP standards, Zero Trust principles, and enterprise cybersecurity requirements.
• Implement enterprise controls for HIPAA, PHI, PII, GDPR, and regulatory compliance across data, applications, and AI workloads.
• Integrate security validation throughout the development lifecycle using SAST, SCA, container scanning, secrets management, and policy-as-code frameworks.
• Design auditable AI systems with governance, lineage, traceability, access controls, and compliance monitoring capabilities.
• AI Engineering, DevSecOps, and Delivery Automation
• Design and implement AI Engineering Harnesses supporting build validation, quality gates, security scanning, automated testing, and deployment automation.

Establish ent erprise DevSecOps frameworks integrating

• Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
• Software Composition Analysis (SCA)
• Container Security Scanning
• Dependency Management
• Policy Compliance Validation

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• Infrastructure-as-Code Governance
• Lead implementation of performance benchmarking frameworks for APIs, AI models, applications, and distributed platforms.
• Build highly automated CI/CD pipelines enabling secure, reliable, and repeatable software delivery.
• Agentic AI Development Frameworks
• Design and operationalize multi-agent software engineering ecosystems to accelerate architecture, development, testing,

security review, and governance activities.

Utilize specialized AI agents including

• Enterprise Architect Agent
• Solution Architect Agent
• Data Architect Agent
• Backend Engineering Agent
• Test Engineering Agent
• Security Review Agent
• Pull Request Review Agent
• Drive adoption of agent-based development workflows to improve engineering productivity, software quality, and deliveryvelocity.
• AI-Assisted Software Engineering Toolchain

Extensive hands-on experience using

• Visual Studio Code with GitHub Copilot
• Claude Code
• OpenAI Codex
• Enterprise AI coding assistants
• Leverage repository-wide reasoning, large-scale codebase analysis, architecture discovery, code modernization, andAI-assisted implementation patterns.
• Architect AI-powered developer experiences integrating intelligent code review, automated remediation, documentationgeneration, and engineering workflow automation.
• Data & AI Platform Architecture
• Design and implement scalable data and AI platforms leveraging Databricks, Snowflake, cloud-native services, and modern data architectures.

Experience with

• Databricks Lakehouse
• Databricks Genie
• Delta Lake
• ML/AI Pipelines
• Snowflake Cortex/CoCo
• Enterprise Data Governance
• Enable self-service analytics, conversational AI, semantic data access, and enterprise-scale data engineering

Capabilities