AI Architect: Enterprise AI & Systems Design

EPAM Systems, Inc.; Canada; Remote; CAD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Extended Healthcare

Life Insurance

RRSP with company match

Telehealth

Paid Time Off

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Job summary

EPAM Canada is seeking an experienced AI Architect to shape AI-native solutions for large clients across industries. You will design end-to-end architectures, define guardrails, and drive decisions on integration, identity, and cost models.

You will articulate trade-offs, evaluate options for stakeholders, and mentor teams while delivering proofs of concept when needed. The role emphasizes architecture decisions, governance, and collaboration with delivery teams and presales to land client

Qualifications

• Architect AI-native systems in production (RAG, assistants, agents).
• Architect-level responsibility for model-enabled systems.
• Enterprise-scale distributed architecture experience.
• Translate ambiguous requirements into explicit decisions and document ADRs.
• Hands-on coding to prototype and validate constraints.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end architectures for AI-native solutions: orchestration, retrieval, tool and system integration, agent autonomy and guardrails, identity and authorization, evaluation, observability, and cost model.
• Turn incoherent requirements into explicit business decisions and price options.
• Document architecture trade-offs (build vs. buy, model selection, retrieval strategy, autonomy level, cost vs. quality).
• Define evaluation strategy for systems to ensure business scope fit.
• Write constraints and architectural fitness functions for teams and agents to implement.
• Collaborate with EPAM delivery teams and presales to shape proposals and review designs.
• Build proofs of concept and reference implementations when needed.

Skills

AI-native architecture

End-to-end architecture

Observability

Cost modeling

Identity & authorization

Trade-off analysis

Documentation & ADRs

Prototyping

Leadership communication

Tools

OAuth 2.1

SPIFFE

AuthZEN

DPoP

Job description

EPAM Canada is seeking an experienced AI Architect to shape AI-native solutions for large clients across industries. You will design end-to-end architectures, define guardrails, and drive decisions on integration, identity, and cost models.

You will articulate trade-offs, evaluate options for stakeholders, and mentor teams while delivering proofs of concept when needed. The role emphasizes architecture decisions, governance, and collaboration with delivery teams and presales to land client