Lead AI-Native Solutions Architect

iSystems Ltd; Lahore; On-site; PKR 6,000,000 - 12,000,000; Full time

Job summary

iSystems Ltd. is seeking an experienced Senior Architect to own AI-native application architecture for production systems.

The role focuses on integrating AI capabilities across applications, data, and infrastructure, with leadership in ML engineering and modernization efforts. The ideal candidate has 8+ years in production system architecture, 3+ years in AI-native architectures, and 5+ years in ML engineering at scale.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in production system architecture.
• 3+ years in AI-native application architecture.
• 5+ years of production-scale ML engineering experience.
• Strong expertise in Azure AI Foundry, AWS Bedrock, and Google Vertex AI.
• Experience with Azure ML, AWS SageMaker, and Vertex AI Prediction.
• Knowledge of APIs, microservices, event-driven architecture, API gateways, service mesh, and secure integrations.
• Experience with LangChain, Hugging Face, knowledge graphs, and semantic layers is preferred.
• Deep understanding of AI architecture challenges including latency, non-determinism, scalability, and cost optimization.
• Experience in legacy modernization and AI-native transformation.
• ADR writing and architecture documentation skills.
• Excellent stakeholder management and client-facing communication skills.
• Strong leadership, mentoring, and technical decision-making abilities.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end architecture for AI-native applications, including integration, data flow, security, and cost.
• Design AI APIs and services and define how AI capabilities integrate with applications.
• Establish architecture standards, reference patterns, and best practices.
• Lead architecture reviews and identify technical, integration, scalability, and modernization risks.
• Architect production ML pipelines, model serving, retraining, and high-throughput systems.
• Define ML engineering standards covering testing, versioning, and CI/CD.
• Lead root-cause analysis for critical production ML issues.
• Partner with QA/AI Assurance teams to ensure architectural testability.
• Mentor AI Engineers and Developers on architecture and design standards.
• Present and defend architecture decisions to client technical leadership.
• Balance technical best practices with project timelines and delivery requirements.

Skills

Architectural leadership

AI-native architecture

ML engineering

Cloud platforms

API & microservices

ADR/documentation

Stakeholder management

Mentoring

Performance & cost optimization

Tools

Azure AI Foundry

AWS Bedrock

Google Vertex AI

Azure ML

AWS SageMaker

Vertex AI Prediction

Job description

iSystems Ltd. is seeking an experienced Senior Architect to own AI-native application architecture for production systems.

The role focuses on integrating AI capabilities across applications, data, and infrastructure, with leadership in ML engineering and modernization efforts. The ideal candidate has 8+ years in production system architecture, 3+ years in AI-native architectures, and 5+ years in ML engineering at scale.