Software Development, Software Architect

Chicago, United States | Posted on 07/02/2026

Location: 100%
Remote. If they are residing in the US however, preferred locationisin Chicago, IL or Peoria, IL area.

Duration: 12+months contract

This is Architecture position for AI related projects which require daily communications with business owners and other members of architecture team located in US.

Position’sContributions to Work Group:

• As a Principal Digital Architect, you will ownthe end-to-end architecture solutions for complex systems—balancing scalability, performance, security, and rapid delivery—while influencing
  
  Enterprise technology strategy.
• This role requires strong technical depth,architectural judgment, and the ability to translate ambiguous business needsinto durable, scalable solutions.
• Own and define solution and platform architectures for large scale, distributed systems from concept through production.
• Create architecture that meets high standards for scalability, performance, resilience, and security.
• Partner closely with business leaders, productowners, engineering managers, and delivery teams to ensure architectural alignment with business outcomes.
• Assess, select, and introduce new technologies,including proof of concept development and architectural spikes.
• Establish and enforce architectural standards,patterns, and best practices across platform teams.
• Provide architectural guidance and mentorship to engineering teams, ensuring high quality implementation.
• Ensure solutions meet security, compliance, and regulatory requirements.
• Produce and maintain clear architecture documentation,including rationale and tradeoffs.
• Continuously evolve platform architecture to improve developer productivity, system reliability, and cost efficiency.

Education& Experience

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years’ experience inthis capacity.

Required Technical Skills (Required):

• Architectural Thinking:
  Ability to decompose complex problem spaces and develop pragmatic architecture options with clearly articulated trade offs.
• Technical Leadership:
  Influence without authority; guide teams through architectural decisions and implementation challenges.
• Communication:
  Clearly articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Requirements Analysis:
  Translate business and non-functional requirements into scalable technical designs.
• Platform & Application Architecture:
  
  Strong foundation in designing modern application and platform architectures using established patterns and standards.

Consideration for top candidates:

• Experience defining AI reference architectures and standards for enterprise adoption.
• Ability to explain and defend architectural trade offs between classical ML, LLM based approaches, and non-AI solutions.
• Proven experience taking AI systems from proofof concept to scaled production use.
• Strong programming background in Python andJava, with the ability to reason at code level.
• Hands on experience with cloud native architectures , including AWS services, containerization, and orchestration(Docker, Kubernetes).
• Deep understanding of data architecture : SQL and No
  
  SQL databases, data warehouses (Snowflake specifically), data modeling, replication, and sharding.
• Experience with modern Dev Ops practices: CI/CD,infrastructure as code, observability, and automated testing.
• Strong API design experience (REST, GraphQL,gRPC), including versioning and documentation.
• Ability to evaluate and introduce emerging technologies aligned to business goals.

AI Related

Skills:

• Hands on experience designing Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures,including:
  • Document preprocessing and chunking strategies.
  • Vectorization and embedding models.
  • Query time retrieval, ranking, and context assembly.
• Deep understanding of embedding techniques, similarity search, and…