Senior Architect - Enterprise AI HLD Architect
On-site · Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Job Summary
Senior Architect - Enterprise AI role responsible for defining an architectural vision and solution for AI capabilities embedded across the SDLC. Leads design of target operating environment, supports security, governance, resilience by design, and interoperability. Drives architecture roadmap, provides pattern-based guidance, oversees system design, and ensures scalable, secure, and maintainable AI-enabled delivery. Requires extensive experience crafting reference architectures, guiding cross-team decisions, and aligning architecture to enterprise objectives. Emphasizes developer workflow integration, cloud/platform engineering, and risk/audit controls within highly regulated environments.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of engineering and architecture experience with strong technical leadership across enterprise software platforms, developer tooling, or AI-enabled systems
- Demonstrated ownership of architecture design, reference patterns, and technical standards for shared capabilities used across multiple teams or lines of business
- Experience engineering solutions in highly regulated environments with strong SDLC, risk, audit, and control requirements
- Ability to influence architects, engineering teams, and risk partners through clear high-level design guidance, reference architecture, and pragmatic technical standards
- Enterprise AI Architecture, Platform Design & Systems Thinking
- Deep expertise in platform architecture and enterprise solution design, with the ability to define high-level structures, capability boundaries, and reference patterns for AI-enabled delivery systems
- Strong command of enterprise systems thinking, including tradeoff analysis, dependency management, cross-platform design, and alignment of architecture decisions to long-term enterprise outcomes
- Proven ability to design AI systems architecture that aligns application, data, model, workflow, and platform considerations into coherent and supportable enterprise solutions
- Hands-on knowledge of cloud and platform engineering principles required to ensure architecture patterns are practical, scalable, and aligned to enterprise operating models
- Security, Governance & Resilience by Design
- Experience applying security and governance by design principles to enterprise AI architecture, including control points, policy alignment, risk-aware patterns, and support for regulated delivery environments
- Strong understanding of architecture decisions that support resiliency, observability, supportability, and operational readiness across AI-enabled delivery systems
- Experience shaping reference architectures that balance reuse, flexibility, standardization, and integration complexity across diverse enterprise delivery environments
- Familiarity with architecture review processes, dependency mapping, and cross-domain design alignment needed to make enterprise AI solutions interoperable, governed, and supportable
- Architecture Enablement, Adoption & Engineering Impact
- Ability to define reference patterns, architecture guardrails, and enablement approaches that improve delivery consistency, design quality, and speed to value across engineering teams
- Proven track record guiding architecture capabilities from concept to enterprise adoption through measurable improvements in solution quality, standardization, governance, and developer alignment
- Demonstrated success connecting architecture investments to delivery acceleration, operational resilience, integration consistency, and reduced complexity across software delivery workflows
- Experience evaluating solution approaches, architectural tradeoffs, and enterprise constraints to guide teams toward scalable, supportable, and high-value AI use cases
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Applied Mathematics, or a related technical field
Desired Qualifications
- Advanced degree in a technical discipline or equivalent record of senior architecture leadership in enterprise platforms, AI systems design, software delivery architecture, or cloud engineering.
Apply with one swipe on Sorce. We auto-fill applications and apply on your behalf — no cover letters, no 40-minute forms.
Hiring someone like this?
Get your role in front of qualified candidates on Sorce.