AI-First Architect

Capgemini • Chicago, NY

22h

About The Position

The AI-First Architect is responsible for designing, governing, and evolving enterprise systems where artificial intelligence is a foundational design element. This role ensures that AI, automation, and human decision-making are intentionally integrated across new development, existing application modernization, and production operations, while maintaining security, reliability, and regulatory compliance. The AI-First Architect operates as a design authority and system governor, shaping how autonomy is introduced over time and ensuring that AI-driven systems remain explainable, auditable, and aligned to business intent.

Requirements

• 10+ years in enterprise or solution architecture roles
• Experience designing distributed, cloud-native, API-led systems
• Strong understanding of AI/ML concepts, AIOps, and observability platforms
• Experience operating in regulated or security-first environments

Nice To Haves

• Experience in telecom or large-scale infrastructure environments
• Background in SRE, platform engineering, or modernization programs
• Familiarity with outcome-based delivery models
• Prior experience as a design authority or architecture review board member

Responsibilities

• Define AI-first reference architectures for new development, modernization, and AI-augmented operations
• Embed AI capabilities into architecture patterns including event-driven designs and autonomous remediation
• Ensure architectures support human-on-the-loop operation
• Maintain clear boundaries between autonomous actions, human approvals, and executive governance
• Establish AI guardrails, confidence thresholds, and escalation models
• Define human-in-the-loop vs human-on-the-loop decision frameworks
• Own architectural input into model lifecycle governance, bias mitigation, and drift monitoring
• Partner with Security, Risk, and Compliance to ensure full auditability and control alignment
• Embed AI into CI/CD pipelines and quality gates
• Translate operational learning into engineering standards
• Guide teams on automation-versus-human design decisions
• Review and approve architecture changes driven by incidents and modernization
• Identify modernization and retirement candidates using AI insights
• Define modernization patterns that reduce long-term operational cost
• Ensure modernization reduces incident inflow and improves resilience
• Align architectural decisions with measurable OpEx and stability outcomes
• Serve as architectural authority across engineering, operations, security, and data teams
• Participate in design reviews, autonomy promotion decisions, and major incident governance
• Communicate AI risk and value clearly to senior stakeholders

Benefits

• Paid time off based on employee grade (A-F), defined by policy: Vacation: 12-25 days, depending on grade, Company paid holidays, Personal Days, Sick Leave
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage (or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada)
• Retirement savings plans (e.g., 401(k) in the U.S., RRSP in Canada)
• Life and disability insurance
• Employee assistance programs
• Other benefits as provided by local policy and eligibility

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees