AI Architect

RESPONSIBILITIES:
Kforce's client is seeking an AI Architect in Cincinnati, OH.

Overview:
The client is looking for an AI Architect - Agentic Platforms to define and lead the architecture for their firm's AI agent ecosystem, enabling intelligent, grounded, and reliable AI systems that operate across millions of interactions every day. This is a high-impact, enterprise architecture leadership role focused on platform strategy, technical standards, and cross-organization influence.

This role is responsible for designing and governing the architecture for agent-based integrations, agent registries, scoring/evals infrastructure, grounding patterns, and multi-agent orchestration platforms. The AI Architect provides deep technical leadership across engineering, product, data science, security, and cloud teams to ensure that agents are built safely, consistently, and with enterprise-grade reliability, performance, and observability. This role combines expertise in large-scale AI systems, distributed cloud architecture, and modern agentic frameworks.

Duties Include:
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG):
* Architect and develop systems that connect agents to trusted enterprise data, APIs, and business services
* Develop architectural patterns for safe, governed agent execution aligned with Responsible AI principles
* Architect scalable, fault-tolerant AI agent platforms across hybrid cloud environments (Azure & Google Cloud Platform)
* Establish architecture standards ensuring low latency, high availability, resiliency, and observability
* Partner with cloud and platform engineering teams to deliver containerized, API-driven, secure infrastructure for agent workloads
* Define platform lifecycle patterns including versioning, release gating, rollback strategies, and performance benchmarking
* Enable cost-efficient scaling of AI workloads across millions of enterprises and customer interactions

REQUIREMENTS:
* Designing enterprise AI/ML systems; 1+ years of hands-on with GenAI, agentic workflows, RAG, LLM-based integrations, or multi-agent systems
* Experience in cloud and distributed systems architecture focused on scalability, reliability, observability, and performance
* Strong expertise with agentic frameworks and tooling (MCP, LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, autogen, crewai, Agent sdk, OpenAI SDK, etc.)
* Hands-on experience in modern software development and engineering practices
* Proven experience integrating APIs and enterprise systems into agentic platforms and workflows
* Ability to rapidly build AI-driven prototypes, proofs of concept, and demo-ready product experiences
* Experience defining and governing enterprise architecture standards, patterns, and reference architectures
* Deep understanding of MCP servers, tool calling, registries, eval pipelines, agent observability, and multi-agent orchestration
* Hands-on experience with Azure and Google Cloud Platform, including Kubernetes, containerization, identity, networking, CI/CD, and API platforms
* Familiarity with AIOps/MLOps stacks (MLflow, model registries, vector DBs, semantic layers, feature stores, monitoring)
* Strong knowledge of security, compliance, risk, and Responsible AI (RAI) considerations for enterprise agent systems
* Demonstrated ability to partner across engineering, data science, product, and security teams to deliver complex AI platform architectures

The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.

We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.

Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.

This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.

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