Principal Software Architect- GenAI

Duck Creek Technologies

69d • $144,800 - $233,500

About The Position

The Principal Software Architect - GenAI acts as an architecture leader in a domain area in multiple activities and teams. Responsible for the high-level design/architecture decisions and drives continuous improvement in architecture and engineering across set of software products/services. Additionally responsible for solutioning and planning for the incorporation of generative AI capabilities across the entire Duck Creek Suite. Acts as a Domain Architect for the GenAI domain, leading and representing the design/architecture decisions of that domain area. Provides architectural and technical leadership, participating and leading with Engineering Communities of Practice. Refines technical backlog items and creation of the overall solution concept and architectural direction for multiple engineering teams. Provides guidance and support to the developers in multiple engineering teams across our product suite in the completion of stories against design/architecture plans. Mentor and help develop engineers and architects in their career growth. Drives and coordinates our technical position with key technology vendors. Can be hands-on, designing and coding solutions for Agile stories with key architectural impact.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree and/or equivalent experience relevant to functional area.
• 7+ years of engineering and/or architecture experience.
• 5+ years supervisory and strategic leadership experience.
• Expertise in Generative AI and experience in creating solutions incorporating Generative AI platforms.
• Strong command of object-oriented programming principles with expert knowledge of Java or C#, and Python.
• Experience in model lifecycle management and MLOps practices.
• Expert in distributed software patterns and cloud-native architectures.

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on experience with LLM integration, RAG pipelines, vector databases, prompt engineering, and hallucination mitigation strategies.
• Familiarity with fine-tuning and model evaluation techniques for large language models.
• Proficiency with frameworks and libraries such as Spring Boot, .NET Core, TensorFlow, PyTorch, LangChain, Hugging Face Transformers, and OpenAI/Anthropic SDKs.
• Knowledge of cost optimization strategies for LLMs in production environments.
• Proficient in applying data security, compliance, and responsible AI principles.

Responsibilities

• Act as an architecture leader in multiple activities and teams.
• Drive continuous improvement in architecture and engineering across software products/services.
• Plan for the incorporation of generative AI capabilities across the Duck Creek Suite.
• Lead and represent design/architecture decisions in the GenAI domain.
• Provide architectural and technical leadership in Engineering Communities of Practice.
• Refine technical backlog items and create overall solution concepts.
• Guide and support developers in completing stories against design/architecture plans.
• Mentor engineers and architects in their career growth.
• Coordinate technical positions with key technology vendors.
• Design and code solutions for Agile stories with architectural impact.

Benefits

• Flexible work environment.
• Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance.
• 401(k) Retirement Plan.
• Flexible Spending & Health Savings Account.
• Paid holidays, vacation, and volunteer time.
• Employee assistance program and other benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees