AI Solutions Architect

Overview

We don’t simply hire employees. We invest in them. When you work at Chatham, we empower you—offering professional development opportunities to help you grow in your career, no matter if you’ve been here for five months or 15 years. Chatham has worked hard to create a distinct work environment that values people, teamwork, integrity, and client service. You will have immediate opportunities to partner with talented subject matter experts, work on complex projects, and contribute to the value Chatham delivers every day.

As an AI Solutions Architect, you will serve as the technical authority within Chatham’s AI Consulting Practice, a team focused on reimagining business processes and delivering custom AI‑enabled solutions for clients. Working closely with consultants, engineers, and platform teams, you will ensure that solutions are architecturally sound, aligned with enterprise technology standards, and positioned for long‑term supportability.

Central to this role is Onyx—Chatham’s cloud‑native SaaS platform built to modernize how clients manage financial risk across debt, derivatives, and real estate. Onyx represents Chatham’s strategic technology foundation, and a core responsibility of this role is ensuring that custom software built by the AI Consulting Practice aligns with Onyx’s architecture, standards, and services wherever possible. This includes identifying opportunities to leverage or extend existing Onyx capabilities rather than building in isolation, while preserving the practice’s ability to move at the pace clients expect.

You will bridge the gap between the AI Consulting Practice and Chatham’s core technology organization. You will regularly navigate the tension between rapid client delivery and long‑term platform alignment, making pragmatic, well‑reasoned architecture decisions that support both immediate client needs and Chatham’s broader technology strategy.

• Act as the primary liaison between the AI Consulting Practice and the core Onyx engineering organization, translating practice needs into well‑defined platform requests and maintaining a structured engagement model that supports effective collaboration.
• Participate in early‑stage scoping and design reviews for new client engagements, identifying architectural risks, security considerations, and alignment with Chatham’s technology strategy before development begins.
• Guide technology decisions related to resiliency, scalability, data residency, disaster recovery, and operational support requirements.
• Define and promote authentication, authorization, secrets management, data classification, and access control practices aligned with Chatham’s security and compliance standards.
• Identify opportunities to leverage existing Onyx platform services or extend platform capabilities to meet practice needs, helping reduce duplication and encourage platform consistency.
• Evaluate buy‑versus‑build technology decisions by considering business requirements, existing platform capabilities, vendor solutions, and long‑term supportability.
• Define and steward integration standards between AI Consulting Practice solutions and the Onyx platform, including API contracts, authentication patterns, and access control requirements.
• Partner with platform, Dev Ops, and security teams to support infrastructure provisioning, environment setup, access approvals, and CI/CD implementation.
• Bridge architectural considerations across Python/FastAPI/Azure and C#/.NET/PostgreSQL/Type Script technology stacks, identifying effective integration and convergence opportunities.
• Plan, prepare, and execute solution transition activities to the broader Chatham technology organization, ensuring solutions are documented, supportable, and…