Architect Level 1

Job#: 3019878

Job Description:

ID: 3019878

Type: 6-month contract to hire

Location: United States

Schedule: 100% remote or Cincinnati, OH

Job Description:

The AI Enablement team is seeking an AI Architect - Agentic Platforms to define the architectural foundations that power the enterprise agent ecosystem. 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.

• experience in cloud and distributed systems architecture focused on scalability, reliability, observability, and performance.
• designing enterprise AI/ML systems; 1+ years hands-on with GenAI, agentic workflows, RAG, LLM-based integrations, or multi-agent systems.
• 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.

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Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.

Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.