Lead Architect , AI Solutions Architecture - PI

Lead Architect

Collaborative Environment, Transformational Projects, and a Growing Team! As a member of AI and Emerging Technology Architecture, you'll be joining a strategic and collaborative team that is passionate about transforming our business and technology capabilities and paving the way for best-in-class solutions.

As a Lead Architect, you will collaborate with senior Technology and Business leaders and apply your deep technical proficiency and visionary thinking to architect AI systems that drive business value while maintaining ethical standards. In this role we will look to you to:

• Apply your hands-on expertise in AI/ML, Generative AI, and Agentic AI systems — including autonomous agent design, multi-agent orchestration frameworks (Lang Chain, Strands, Crew AI), Model Context Protocol (MCP), and Agent2
  
  Agent integration — to architect scalable, production-grade AI solutions across the enterprise
• Provide consulting expertise to division and domain architects, driving architecture alignment across lines of business and serving as a champion for establishing an enterprise AI solutions architecture practice
• Align AI platform capabilities to the strategic needs of business groups — spanning LLM selection and routing, RAG pipelines, memory systems, and tool/function-calling patterns — while promoting reusability, interoperability, and responsible AI design
• Help establish governance, risk, and control processes that ensure safe, compliant, and sustainable AI deployments, informed by frameworks such as the EU AI Act, GDPR, NAIC, and NIST AI RMF, and grounded in strong AI ethics and bias mitigation principles
• Demonstrate a strong passion for tracking and communicating the evolving AI platform roadmap — spanning foundation models, agentic frameworks, and emerging autonomous systems — while surfacing competitive landscape insights and highlighting opportunities and challenges that complement enterprise initiatives
• Bring strong collaboration, communication, and mentoring skills to bridge complex AI concepts for non-technical stakeholders, build consensus across diverse teams, and foster a knowledge-sharing culture within the architecture community

Let us help you accelerate your career as we grow our team and transform our business!

• Scope:
• Responsible for architecture for multiple technology and or/ business segments/domains for a single business unit.
• Technical Execution:
• Define and lead technology proof of concepts to ensure feasibility of architecture solutions.
• Proactively identify opportunities to capitalize on technology advances through analysis of key industry and technology trends to assess potential impact on the enterprise.
• Drive continuous technology transformation to minimize technical debt.
• Conduct hands-on prototyping of new technology solutions.
• Partner with Technology and Business leadership to ensure proper alignment with technology direction and execution of proof of technologies.
• Strategic Accountability:
• Provide strong thought leadership in pursuit of modern architecture principles and technology modernization.
• Engage with the senior leadership within Technology and Business to develop architecture priorities and direction to enable business imperatives and gain buy-in.
• Prepare and deliver communications to convey architectural direction.
• Drive strategic relationships and champion organizational buy-in.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Technical Expertise &
  
  Education:
• Bachelor's degree in technology-related field or equivalent, with 8 to 10 years of architecture experience.
• Advanced level architecture and recent hands-on strong engineering experience with modern technologies.
• Successful execution of complex, large scale technology strategies.
• Leadership & Influence:
• Advanced leadership skills with the ability to leverage cross-functional networks to collaborate with architecture and engineering leaders on problem-solving, build company-wide credibility, prioritize critical architectural challenges, and strengthen the Architecture organization through knowledge sharing, mentoring, and creating development opportunities for team members.
• Strategic & Business Acumen:
• Extensi…