Principal AI Architect

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NYSTEC is a nonprofit technology consulting company, advising agencies, organizations, institutions, and businesses since 1996. We’re independent and vendor-neutral, so we have our clients’ best interests  NYSTEC, we know that we succeed when individuals and teams flourish personally and professionally, so our benefits and perks support that mindset.

The Principal AI Architect is a senior technical specialist responsible for translating NYSTEC's artificial intelligence priorities into secure, scalable, supportable, and reusable solutions. The role combines AI solution architecture, engineering leadership, rapid experimentation, and technical delivery to move opportunities from concept through prototype, pilot, implementation, and reuse. The Principal AI Architect serves as a key technical partner to the Deputy Chief AI Officer, providing technical leadership for architecture, engineering approach, feasibility, integration, implementation, and production readiness.

The position also strengthens NYSTEC's long‑term technical capability by developing reusable AI patterns and tools, mentoring technical professionals, leading assigned technical resources, and helping teams adopt emerging technologies effectively and responsibly.

• AI Architecture and Technical Leadership
  • Lead architecture and solution design for AI‑enabled applications, agents, intelligent workflows, knowledge solutions, automation, integrations, and related emerging technologies.
  • Translate business problems and approved use cases into technical designs, prototypes, pilots, implementation approaches, and production‑ready solutions.
  • Define reusable architecture and engineering patterns for generative AI, agentic AI, retrieval‑augmented generation, model and tool integration, context management, and human‑in‑the‑loop workflows.
  • Evaluate technical approaches based on feasibility, data requirements, security, integration, scalability, maintainability, user experience, cost, and business value.
  • Lead technical design reviews, identify architecture risks and dependencies, and provide independent technical recommendations on significant AI decisions.
  • Serve as a trusted technical advisor to leadership, project teams, product owners, engineers, and other technical staff.
• Technical Delivery and Engineering Execution
  • Provide hands‑on technical leadership through discovery, prototyping, proof‑of‑concept development, pilot execution, implementation, and transition to sustainable operations.
  • Lead resolution of complex technical problems spanning systems, teams, technologies, vendors, data sources, or organizational boundaries.
  • Establish practical engineering approaches for testing, output validation, observability, access control, data handling, security, lifecycle management, and operational support of AI‑enabled solutions.
  • Balance speed, quality, security, maintainability, and business value while helping teams move from ambiguous requirements to executable solutions.
  • Assess prototypes and pilots and recommend whether solutions should be scaled, redesigned, reused, transitioned, consolidated, or retired.
• AI Innovation, Adoption, and Reusable Capabilities
  • Explore emerging models, frameworks, development tools, protocols, and engineering practices and recommend where experimentation or adoption may create meaningful value for NYSTEC.
  • Develop reusable tools, components, integrations, prompts, context practices, agents, architecture patterns, and technical accelerators that can be shared across teams.
  • Create mechanisms for discovering and reusing approved AI capabilities and successful patterns, reducing unnecessary duplication and tool sprawl.
  • Partner with the Deputy Chief AI Officer and organizational leaders to…