AI Solutions Architect

AI Solutions Architect

Anywhere

Type: Contract

Category: Architecture

Industry: Financial Services

Workplace Type: Remote

Standard

Hours:

Open

Reference : JN -

Date Posted: 09/15/2026

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Our client is seeking an AI Solutions Architect to enable product teams to ship AI-native capabilities. You will embed with one solution team at a time, co-building production vertical slices across LLM features, agentic workflows, tool calling, and RAG on top of an AI middleware platform. You will establish evaluation discipline, design reusable platform capabilities, and coach engineers and product managers so teams continue to iterate after you rotate.

Success is measured by sustained delivery of AI features in production, not by prototypes.

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $100.00 to $125.00/hr. w2

Responsibilities:

• Co-build production vertical slices with solution team engineers, including LLM features, agentic workflows, tool calling, and RAG integrated with an AI middleware platform.

• Own evaluation engineering with golden datasets, rubrics, LLM-as-judge, hallucination and regression detection, and CI/CD quality gates, and transition ownership to the team.

• Design and build reusable platform capabilities on the AI middleware and guide teams through onboarding.

• Decide when to use generative AI versus deterministic approaches.

• Support discovery and shaping through a Catalyst-style program from pain-point identification to first working slice with middleware integration and baseline evaluations.

• Implement model routing, guardrails, observability, and cost controls.

• Coach engineers and product managers on AI-native software patterns, including agent harness and tool design.

• Produce durable artifacts such as architecture notes, evaluation suites, runbooks, and implementation patterns.

Experience Requirements:

• Shipped LLM-powered functionality to real users with exposure to production issues.

• Hands-on evaluation engineering with golden datasets, rubrics, LLM-as-judge, and automated quality gates.

• Agentic architecture experience across tool calling, orchestration, context and memory management, and multi-step workflows.

• RAG and semantic search implementation.

• Azure, cloud-native services, REST APIs, and CI/CD.

• Strong software engineering fundamentals with direct coding contributions.

• Ability to become productive in a new codebase and business within 6 to 8 weeks.

• Clear communication of technical decisions to both engineers and product managers.

• Preferred:
  Azure OpenAI, Azure Container Apps, Terraform.

• Preferred:
  LiteLLM or similar routing, Langfuse or similar observability.

• Preferred:
  Experience embedding with or coaching product teams, including consulting or platform enablement.

• Preferred:
  Facilitation of discovery or use-case prioritization sessions.

• Preferred:
  Exposure to financial systems, payments, or Office of the CFO.

Recruitment Transparency Notice

Eliassen Group values transparency in our recruitment practices. Please be advised that Eliassen Group utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) tools as part of its initial application screening and hiring process. You may receive email and SMS notifications from the Eliassen Virtual Recruiting Team (, ) inviting you to complete a brief voice screening as part of your application process. These tools assist our hiring teams in different ways, including but not limited to, assistance in reviewing application materials to help identify candidates whose qualifications most closely match the requirements of the position.

All AI-assisted evaluations and responses are reviewed by human recruiters before any hiring decisions are made. The use of AI in our process is intended to support fairness, efficiency, and consistency, and Eliassen Group takes measures to prevent bias or discrimination in connection with its hiring practices. By proceeding, you acknowledge, agree, and consent to Eliassen Group's use of these tools, including AI tools, as part of the application and hiring process.

Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

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