Solutions Architect
About The Position
In this role, you will serve as an AI Solutions Architect within Vizient’s Platform Engineering organization, designing scalable, secure, reusable, and AI-enabled enterprise solutions that support platforms, applications, data services, and intelligent automation capabilities. You will partner with Engineering, Architecture, CloudOps, Security, Data Governance, and IT teams to deliver well-architected solutions aligned with enterprise strategy using modern cloud-native, data-driven, and AI-native patterns. You will guide enterprise approaches for AI integration, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic workflows, model orchestration, responsible AI, and secure AI adoption while balancing innovation, reliability, compliance, and business value.
Requirements
- 7 or more years of software engineering experience, including 5 or more years in software architecture, systems design, or AI solution architecture required.
- Full-stack development experience across front-end, back-end, and cloud-native applications required.
- Hands-on experience designing, building, or integrating AI-enabled and data-driven solutions required.
- Strong understanding of Microsoft Azure cloud services, including networking, security, identity, data, and Azure AI capabilities required.
- Knowledge of industry standards and compliance frameworks such as HIPAA and SOC 2 required.
Nice To Haves
- Relevant degree preferred.
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field preferred.
- Experience with generative AI platforms, large language model integration, RAG architectures, prompt engineering, model orchestration, vector databases, semantic search, or AI agents preferred.
- Understanding of AI-related privacy, security, governance, model risk, and responsible use considerations preferred.
- Experience with IAM, OIDC, FGA, networking concepts, Linux tools, scripting, and modern security protocols preferred.
- Experience with data modeling, data engineering, APIs, AI integration patterns, event-driven systems, middleware, and front-end architectures preferred.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Pulumi or Terraform preferred.
- Relevant certifications such as Cloud Solution Architect, Azure AI Engineer, CISSP, or equivalent preferred.
Responsibilities
- Define architecture patterns for generative AI, retrieval-augmented generation, model integration, prompt orchestration, agent-based workflows, and AI-assisted automation.
- Design end-to-end solution and reference architectures across applications, APIs, integrations, data platforms, identity, cloud infrastructure, and AI-enabled systems.
- Partner with Engineering, Architecture, CloudOps, Security, Data Governance, IT, and Product teams to embed security, reliability, privacy, and responsible AI practices.
- Guide Platform Engineering teams in designing secure, reusable components, shared services, and AI platform capabilities.
- Develop proofs of concept, automation scripts, tools, and reference implementations across application, data, security, integration, and AI use cases.
- Evaluate AI architecture approaches, frameworks, model integration patterns, vector stores, semantic search capabilities, and orchestration technologies.
- Lead architecture and design sessions with engineering teams, business stakeholders, AI product teams, and data teams.
- Simplify complex technical concepts, including AI architecture, model behavior, data grounding, and security tradeoffs, to influence direction and gain stakeholder buy-in.
- Architect solutions that meet non-functional requirements including security, reliability, scalability, performance, compliance, observability, and AI governance.
- Drive long-term technical evolution across platform, data, cloud, application, and AI strategies.
- Mentor team members and support adoption of modern AI engineering practices across cross-functional teams.
- Ensure solution designs comply with enterprise policies, standards, and directives established by the CISO organization and Data Governance.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits plan
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
