AI Architect Lead

NATIONMIND LLC; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote position

Job summary

NationMind LLC is seeking an experienced AI Architect Lead to design and govern enterprise-scale AI agent platforms. This remote role focuses on GenAI, LLM tooling, and secure architectures across business lines. Location: Houston TX or US Remote, duration: 6 months.

You will drive API design, workflow orchestration, and tool integrations with enterprise systems while leading cross-functional teams, ensuring reliability and governance across AI initiatives.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise solution architecture and backend systems.
• GenAI, AI agents, and large language model platforms expertise.
• APIs, event-driven architectures, and workflow engines design experience.
• Hands-on with AI safety, guardrails, tool-calling systems, and enterprise chat platforms.
• Experience integrating Slack, Jira, Zendesk, ServiceNow, Confluence.
• IAM knowledge: Okta, SSO, RBAC, governance controls.
• Observability and monitoring platform familiarity is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Strong experience in enterprise solution architecture, backend engineering, and distributed systems design.
• Design APIs, integration platforms, event-driven architectures, and workflow orchestration systems.
• Hands-on with GenAI applications, AI agents, RAG workflows, tool-calling systems, and enterprise chat platforms.
• Understand LLM ecosystems including major providers and ensure secure, scalable deployments.
• Develop orchestration frameworks, agent runtimes, and stateful task execution systems.
• Lead stakeholder governance with architecture, AI Ops, security, and business teams.
• Integrate enterprise tools like Slack, Jira, Zendesk, ServiceNow, Confluence.

Skills

AI & Automation

AI Agents

GenAI Applications

RAG Workflows

LLM Platforms

Python

TypeScript

Node.js

Java

Go

API & Integration Architecture

Workflow Orchestration

Prompt Engineering

Enterprise Security & IAM

DevOps / CI-CD

Observability & Monitoring

Leadership & Stakeholder Management

Job description

About NationMind LLC:

NationMind LLC is a technology consulting firm focused on software development and QA testing services. We help clients build reliable, scalable applications with a strong emphasis on automation, performance, and quality. Our team works across industries, delivering solutions that drive innovation and operational efficiency. We are currently hiring skilled professionals for AI Architect Lead to join our growing team.

Role: AI Architect Lead

Location: Houston TX or US Remote

Duration: 6 months

Skills: AI and Automation AI Agents

Experience Required: 10 & Above

Role Descriptions:

• Strong experience in enterprise solution architecture, backend engineering, and distributed systems design.
• Expertise in Python, TypeScript, Node.js, Java, Go, or similar backend technologies.
• Strong experience designing APIs, integration platforms, event-driven architectures, and workflow orchestration systems.
• Hands-on experience with GenAI applications, AI agents, RAG workflows, tool-calling systems, and enterprise chatbot platforms.
• Strong understanding of LLM ecosystems including OpenAI, Claude, ChatGPT Enterprise, Azure OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Databricks, or similar AI platforms.
• Experience designing orchestration frameworks, agent runtimes, workflow engines, and stateful task execution systems.
• Strong understanding of prompt engineering, structured outputs, guardrails, function calling, and AI safety controls.
• Experience integrating enterprise collaboration and workflow platforms including Slack, Jira, Zendesk, ServiceNow, and Confluence.
• Strong understanding of enterprise identity and access management including Okta, SCIM, SSO, RBAC, ABAC, secrets management, and governance controls.
• Experience with observability platforms, OpenTelemetry, monitoring frameworks, logging, tracing, metrics, and operational dashboards.
• Strong knowledge of secure architecture practices, enterprise governance, data privacy, compliance, and operational reliability.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, deployment automation, rollback strategies, and operational lifecycle management.
• Strong stakeholder management and leadership skills across architecture, engineering, AI Ops, governance, security, and business teams.

Core Skills:

• AI & Automation
• AI Agents
• GenAI Applications
• RAG Workflows
• LLM Platforms (OpenAI, Claude, Azure OpenAI, Bedrock, Vertex AI)
• Python, TypeScript, Node.js, Java, Go
• API & Integration Architecture
• Workflow Orchestration
• Prompt Engineering
• Enterprise Security & IAM
• DevOps / CI-CD
• Observability & Monitoring
• Leadership & Stakeholder Management

This role is essentially a Senior/Lead AI Solutions Architect focused on designing and governing enterprise-scale AI agent and GenAI platforms.

This is a remote position.