Enterprise AI Architect

We are looking to add to our dynamic team the critical role of Enterprise AI Architect to help turn AI ideas into secure, scalable, production-ready business solutions. This high-visibility role will define the architecture, patterns, and guardrails that help the company adopt AI responsibly and  ideal candidate is a hands-on solution architect who can translate business needs into practical AI solutions, design agentic and multi-agent architectures, and partner across business, IT, data, cybersecurity, and operations teams.

This is a builder role for someone excited to create the enterprise AI playbook in a global manufacturing and technology environment.

• Help define how enterprise AI is built, governed, and scaled.
• Work on high-value AI use cases that improve real business processes.
• Shape the company’s approach to agents, copilots, AI governance, and responsible adoption.
• Turn experimentation into measurable enterprise impact.

• Define the enterprise AI architecture roadmap, from early use cases to production-ready solutions.
• Create reusable standards, solution patterns, and best practices for scalable AI delivery.
• Lead architecture for generative AI, copilots, AI agents, RAG, machine learning, and intelligent workflows.
• Design agentic and multi-agent solutions with clear controls, escalation paths, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints.

• Architect solutions using Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Azure Machine Learning, Microsoft Fabric, Copilot Studio, Power Platform, and related Microsoft AI services.
• Define when to use copilots, agents, RAG, automation, custom APIs, or third-party AI tools.
• Evaluate and integrate AI capabilities from outside the Azure ecosystem, including platforms and models from providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and others.
• Design hybrid AI patterns for manufacturing and operational environments that cannot be fully cloud-native.

• Ground AI solutions in trusted enterprise data, including ERP, SQL Server applications, and manufacturing/OT systems.
• Define secure data pipelines, APIs, connectors, and integration patterns using standards such as MCP and A2A where appropriate.

• Partner with business leaders, cybersecurity, infrastructure, data, and development teams to deliver secure, scalable AI solutions.
• Prioritize AI opportunities based on business value, feasibility, risk, and adoption potential.

• Provide technical leadership across Agile delivery teams, including onshore and offshore resources.
• Guide AI initiatives from concept through production deployment and support.

• Establish responsible AI, security, compliance, and governance standards for production AI solutions.
• Define ALM, LLMOps/MLOps, monitoring, versioning, telemetry, and model evaluation practices.
• Protect AI models and data workflows through access controls, audit trails, data residency, and prompt-injection safeguards.

• Monitor AI compute, API, and cloud costs.
• Conduct ROI analysis and define success metrics for AI-powered solutions.

• 5+ years in solution, cloud, or enterprise architecture.
• 3+ years designing AI, machine learning, generative AI, or agentic AI solutions.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure and Azure AI services.
• Experience integrating AI with enterprise systems, ERP, manufacturing, or operational data is a plus.
• Experience leading Agile teams and globally distributed development resources.

• Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, Azure Machine Learning, Microsoft Fabric, Copilot Studio,…