AI Architect

Overview

Programmers.io is currently looking for a AI Architect

Contract Role - Open for C2C, W2 OR 1099

The AI Enablement team is seeking an AI Architect – Agentic Platforms to define the architectural foundations that power Kroger’s 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.

• 10+ years’ experience in cloud and distributed systems architecture focused on scalability, reliability, observability, and performance.
• 7+ years 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, Lang Chain, Lang Graph, Llama Index, 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.

• Hands-on experience with Azure and GCP, 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).

If you are interested, please apply or feel free to share your updated resume at anas.khan