Senior Gen AI Architect

The Senior GenAI Architect is responsible for leading the development of the GenAI architecture across the Lineage enterprise. This will be accomplished through collaboration with key stakeholders in data science, data solutions, infrastructure, and business teams. This includes scaling our GenAI capabilities by designing RAG systems, integrating LLMs, building Agentic workflows, and enabling secure, responsible AI deployments that align with Lineage's data and digital strategy, and build reusability into our core architecture.

As Lineage continues its transformation of the global food supply chain, this role will be critical in bringing GenAI-driven capabilities to life. The ideal candidate is a hands-on technical leader with a deep understanding of modern GenAI technologies and patterns and has a passion for solving complex enterprise challenges using GenAI.

As a company, Lineage builds state-of-the-art systems to make our employees productive, to meet and exceed our customers' expectations, to assist in our growth, and to create a technology platform that enables Lineage to achieve its vision of transforming the food supply chain. This is one of the most critical roles in that journey, and it will require someone who has a true passion for leveraging GenAI and associated technologies.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and implementation of Lineage's GenAI architecture, including vector databases, session memory and context, orchestration layer, connectivity layer & API integrations, UI deliver, LLMs, evaluation frameworks, monitoring and logging, and agentic workflow engines
• Define and maintain architectural standards and reusable components for GenAI use cases across the business
• Evaluate and integrate LLM providers and open-source models to support specific business needs
• Build scalable RAG pipelines for intelligent document search, summarization, and insight extraction
• Design GenAI applications that securely integrate with internal and external applications, data lakes, and knowledge stores using APIs and MCP (Model Context Protocol)
• Partner with data engineering, data science, product, and business teams to identify and deliver high-impact AI solutions

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• Contribute to the development of AI governance and model lifecycle management
• Lead technical workshops and evangelize GenAI best practices across teams
• Provide guidance and mentorship to GenAI developers, data scientists, and architects
• Continuously monitor the evolving GenAI ecosystem and recommend improvements or strategic pivots
• Manage and mentor other personnel - both internal and external
• Make sound technical design and architectural decisions
• Consistently deliver high-quality software and processes in usable increments
• Grow and maintain a broad and deep knowledge of supply chain operations and associated technologies
• Travel occasionally to meet with team members and partners

Education and Work Experience:

• University degree in computer science, AI/ML, software engineering, or related field and/or >10 years of relevant work experience
• 7+ years in software or data architecture roles with enterprise-scale solutions
• 3+ years of experience implementing AI/ML solutions, including 1+ year with GenAI/LLMs
• Proven experience with cloud-native platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform) and infrastructure automation
• Prior experience in hands-on software development is preferred

Required Skills and Abilities:

• Possess a willingness to be coached and proactively seek feedback
• Handle multiple assignments / projects simultaneously
• Properly set priority and order for work
• Work in a fast-paced, agile environment
• Ask for help and provide it to others
• Understand your skills and your talents and apply them appropriately
• Learn and apply new technologies and business concepts
• Maintain personal accountability for getting things done on time and with quality results
• Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to explain technical concepts to business leaders

Why Lineage?

This is an excellent position to begin your career path within Lineage! Success in this role enables greater responsibilities and promotions! A career at Lineage starts with learning about our business and how each team member plays a part each and every day to satisfy our customers' requirements. Beyond that, you'll help us grow and learn on our journey to be the very best employer in our industry. We'll ask you for your opinion and ensure we do our part to keep you developing and engaged as we grow our business. Working at Lineage is energizing and enjoyable. We value respect and care about our team members.

Lineage is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and is committed to compliance with all federal, state, and local laws that prohibit workplace discrimination and unlawful harassment and retaliation. Lineage will not discriminate against any applicant on the basis of race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical or mental disability or any other protected status under federal, state and local law.

Benefits

Lineage provides safe, stable, reliable work environments, medical, dental, and basic life and disability insurance benefits, 401k retirement plan, paid time off, annual bonus eligibility, and a minimum of 7 holidays throughout the calendar year.