AI Solutions Architect

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The AI Solutions Architect serves as a critical link between the FAS community and the rapidly evolving landscape of AI capabilities. The Architect leads opportunity discovery, problem definition, stakeholder alignment, and overall solution architecture. Working as a paired team, both the Architect and AI Solutions Engineer contribute hands-on from prototype through product delivery. The Architect contributes to implementation, testing, demonstrations, and production transition;

the Engineer holds primary responsibility for detailed engineering, deployment, reliability, and operational readiness. The Architect ensures a clear path to secure, sustainable support.

• Engage faculty, researchers, and staff across FAS to identify and frame AI opportunities and define intended outcomes.
• Lead requirements and tool selection, and design solutions per established patterns and University data, security, and privacy policy.
• Scope problem statements and lead rapid prototyping (AI platforms, APIs, low-code/no-code), partnering with the Engineer to put working software in front of stakeholders early.
• Assess sustainability - including cost, security, maintenance, service-owner capacity - and define readiness and acceptance criteria..
• Own the governance relationship (security, privacy, accessibility, data-governance, research computing) and secure the approvals that turn prototypes into supported services.
• Communicate across all levels…