Generative AI Enterprise Architect

Empower

8d • $151,800 - $220,050 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Generative AI – Enterprise Architect owns the architectural strategy and key decisions for how Generative AI capabilities are built, scaled, and integrated across the enterprise. This role defines how enterprise data and knowledge are structured, accessed, and applied to support AI-driven interactions across customer experiences, internal workflows, and decision-making processes. This role is accountable for how information flows from source systems through curation, indexing, and retrieval into AI-enabled systems. It establishes the patterns, constraints, and standards that govern how AI operates within the enterprise, and ensures those patterns are applied consistently through close partnership with engineering and platform teams. This role continuously evolves the architecture based on real-world system behavior, adoption patterns, and emerging capabilities, ensuring Generative AI becomes a reliable, scalable, and integral part of how the organization operates.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field
• Ten or more years of experience across data architecture, distributed systems, or enterprise platform design
• Experience owning architectural direction and influencing system design across multiple teams
• Strong understanding of data architecture, including how structured and unstructured data is modeled, governed, and made accessible across complex systems
• Experience designing large-scale systems that integrate data platforms, APIs, and distributed services
• Practical knowledge of modern data platforms (such as snowflake) including ingestion, transformation, and consumption layers
• Understanding of retrieval, indexing, and search systems operating at scale
• Deep familiarity with Generative AI and Agentic AI concepts including embeddings, retrieval, prompt composition, agent memory, and orchestration
• Ability to design systems that balance performance, scalability, cost, and operational complexity
• Strong grasp of access control, security, and governance within distributed environments
• Experience with Agent Frameworks – 3rd Party and open source
• Ability to direct the enterprise on prompt injection risk, data leakage, least privilege, auditability, DLP, model risk controls, regulatory expectations, and safe use of agents connected to enterprise systems
• Ability to translate complex system behavior into clear architectural direction
• Strong decision-making skills with the ability to evaluate tradeoffs and set direction under uncertainty

Nice To Haves

• Experience designing systems where AI outputs directly drive user actions, decisions, or automated workflows
• Depth in information retrieval, search systems, or large-scale knowledge architectures
• Experience working with systems where output quality, consistency, and trust were critical and actively managed
• Ability to design for ambiguity, variability, and imperfect data rather than assuming deterministic behavior
• Strong intuition for how data structure, context selection, and system design impact model outputs
• Track record of simplifying complex, fragmented systems into clear and reusable architectural patterns
• Experience identifying where AI is appropriate and where alternative approaches produce better outcomes
• Practical understanding of how systems fail in production and how to design safeguards and fallback strategies
• Ability to anticipate scaling challenges and address them before they become constraints
• Recognized expertise through targeted certifications in AWS architecture, Snowflake data platforms, or applied machine learning, with demonstrated depth in Generative AI platforms such as AWS Bedrock or equivalent LLM ecosystems
• Curiosity and continuous learning in a rapidly evolving technical space

Responsibilities

• Own the architectural strategy and key decisions for how Generative AI capabilities are designed and scaled across the enterprise
• Define how enterprise data, knowledge, and metadata are organized so AI systems can reliably access and use them
• Establish how information flows from source systems through curation, indexing, embedding, and retrieval into AI-driven interactions
• Set direction for how AI capabilities are embedded into customer touchpoints, internal tools, and operational workflows
• Develop Agent Framework Architecture
• Define how enterprise data models and domain structures enable contextual reasoning and grounded outputs
• Establish how knowledge is represented, versioned, and maintained to ensure accuracy and relevance over time
• Define how retrieval systems select, rank, and deliver context to models under varying conditions
• Establish patterns for handling non-deterministic system behavior, including variability, ambiguity, and failure scenarios
• Define how orchestration layers coordinate models, data sources, APIs, and downstream systems into controlled workflows
• Establish patterns for multi-step AI workflows, including tool usage, execution boundaries, and escalation paths
• Assist the RAI team with defining how AI outputs are evaluated for quality, consistency, and impact on downstream decisions and processes
• Identify fragmentation across data, tools, and implementations and drive consolidation into coherent architectural patterns

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
• Retirement savings – 401(k) plan with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%), financial advisory services, potential company discretionary contribution, and a broad investment lineup
• Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
• Business-casual environment that includes the option to wear jeans
• Generous paid time off upon hire – including a paid time off program plus ten paid company holidays and three floating holidays each calendar year
• Paid volunteer time — 16 hours per calendar year
• Leave of absence programs – including paid parental leave, paid short- and long-term disability, and Family and Medical Leave (FMLA)
• Business Resource Groups (BRGs) – BRGs facilitate inclusion and collaboration across our business internally and throughout the communities where we live, work and play. BRGs are open to all.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior