Principal Agentic Architect

Location

Hybrid / Remote (global, aligned to target customer time zones)

Role Type

Full-time | Principal Level

Role Overview

Centific’s DAC (Digital Architecture & Cognitive) Command is expanding its global architecture unit to build and operationalize agentic, AI-driven business automation at production scale.

In this role, you will act as the end-to-end design authority for agentic inference solutions—owning outcomes from blueprint to live operations. You will architect multi-agent systems, runtime orchestration, and operational guardrails that meet demanding non-functional requirements (latency, reliability, cost, and security).

This is a hands-on role. You will prototype reference implementations, tune runtime behavior, and partner with engineering, platform, security, and product stakeholders to deliver production-first agentic systems.

Key Responsibilities

1. Agentic System Architecture & Orchestration

- Design multi-agent architectures (planner–executor, supervisor loops, routing/dispatch, delegation, reflection/verification patterns) aligned to business workflows.
- Define orchestration mechanisms for state/session handling, memory (short/long-term), tool invocation, retrieval/RAG, and structured I/O.
- Establish standards for prompt/agent templates, tool/skill contracts, agent-to-agent messaging, and deterministic fallbacks.
- Create reference implementations that teams can extend safely (agent frameworks, orchestration services, reusable libraries).

2. NFR-Driven Design for Production Inference

- Own non-functional design (latency, throughput, scalability, reliability, availability, cost) as first-class requirements.
- Design for performance and cost: token budgeting, caching strategies, batching, streaming responses, concurrency controls, and adaptive routing.
- Define resilience patterns: timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, idempotency, queue back-pressure, graceful degradation, and safe-mode behavior.
- Drive architecture decisions that balance quality vs. cost vs. speed—documenting trade-offs and expected SLOs/SLAs.

3. Solution Blueprint Ownership & End-to-End Delivery

- Own the end-to-end solution blueprint from concept through production rollout (architecture, integration, testing, operations).
- Translate business intent into system decomposition (services, agents, tools, data flows) with clear ownership boundaries and contracts.
- Collaborate with Solution Blueprint Architects, Platform Architects, Data/Governance, and Security/Compliance to align constraints early.
- Deliver architecture artifacts: sequence diagrams, decision records (ADRs), integration specs, runbooks, acceptance criteria, and launch checklists.

4. Integration Governance & Platform Compatibility

- Set integration standards for APIs/events (versioning, compatibility contracts, error semantics, schema governance).
- Define interfaces for tool invocation (capabilities registry, permissions, rate limits, safe parameterization).
- Ensure agentic systems integrate cleanly with enterprise platforms (IAM, logging, monitoring, workflow engines, data platforms).
- Partner with enterprise architecture to ensure interoperability across domains and prevent fragmentation.

5. Operational Readiness & Reliability

- Design and enforce operational guardrails: monitoring, alerting, evaluation hooks, rollback plans, and safety kill-switches.
- Establish runbooks for incident response, model/agent degradation, and dependency failures (tools, data sources, external APIs).
- Define observability standards for agent traces, tool calls, prompts/responses, evaluation scores, and cost telemetry.
- Lead postmortems and reliability improvements; ensure corrective actions are implemented and verified.

6. Technical Leadership & Enablement

- Act as a principal technical leader—aligning cross-functional teams on architecture, roadmap, and delivery priorities.
- Mentor engineers/architects on agentic design patterns, evaluation, and production hardening.
- Drive reuse: shared components, gold-standard reference flows, and platform primitives that accelerate delivery.
- Contribute to architecture councils/design reviews; influence standards and best practices across DAC…