(AI) Solutions Architect

Job Title: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Solutions Architect

Location: 100% Remote after onboarding

• First day onsite for equipment pickup
• Local candidates only – Phoenix, Arizona

Job Type: Contract 12+ months duration

Job Summary

The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Solutions Architect will work with internal AI product management teams, vendor teams, and development staff to design, develop, enhance, and streamline enterprise AI systems. This role requires strong expertise in AI architecture, Agentic AI, Azure OpenAI, and secure enterprise solution design within public-sector environments.

The position operates with minimal supervision and requires independent decision-making within established guidelines.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of secure, scalable AI and Agentic AI solutions aligned with organizational and public-sector standards.
• Design end-to-end AI architectures including:
• Data ingestion pipelines
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
• LLM orchestration
• Human-in-the-loop workflows
• Provide technical leadership, architecture documentation, and implementation guidance to internal teams and system integrators.
• Ensure compliance with security, privacy, accessibility, and governance standards including PII, HIPAA, and CJIS requirements where applicable.
• Define best practices and reference architectures for responsible and ethical AI usage.
• Evaluate and integrate AI platforms, cloud services, and vendor solutions.
• Build architectures supporting explainability, auditability, transparency, and bias mitigation.
• Collaborate with DevOps, cybersecurity, and data teams to operationalize AI solutions from proof-of-concept through production deployment.
• Support AI strategy, roadmap planning, and executive-level presentations.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• Strong experience with:
• Agentic AI
• Azure OpenAI
• Large Language Models (LLMs)
• Machine Learning (ML)
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
• Human-in-the-loop AI workflows
• Hands-on development experience with:
• .NET (C#, VB.NET)
• HTML
• JavaScript
• OCR / IDP / AI automation tools
• Ability to design and implement AI-driven solutions from business and technical requirements
• Experience creating:
• Technical specifications
• Solution designs
• Architecture documentation
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to analyze existing codebases and understand implementation logic
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in fast-paced environments