AI Architect - Production-Ready Digital Solutions

PA Consulting; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Group medical insurance

Health Savings Account with company m

Job summary

PA Consulting in Charlotte, NC is seeking an AI Architect to shape and deliver complex digital solutions for enterprise clients. You'll own delivery architecture for digital products, AI agents, and modernization initiatives, working with Product Strategists and AI Engineers to translate business problems into production-ready systems.

This hands-on role emphasizes technical judgment, cloud-native design on AWS/Azure/GCP, and secure, scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• Production-grade software delivery for complex digital solutions.
• Strong architectural and leadership capabilities.
• Experience with cloud-native systems on AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Hands-on AI engineering with agent-based systems.

Responsibilities

• Own the delivery architecture for digital products, AI agents, intelligent workflows, and modernization initiatives, ensuring solutions remain aligned from discovery through deployment.
• Architect the elements that determine whether AI solutions succeed in production, including tool selection, memory and context management, guardrail design, and human-in-the-loop controls.
• Define, build, and guide the implementation of the technical components that power agentic systems, including retrieval pipelines, MCP services and integrations, and the systems that connect AI capabilities to enterprise data and processes at scale.
• Modernize platforms and applications around current business needs, rebuilding where necessary rather than simply moving legacy functionality onto newer technology.
• Design security and operational resilience into solutions from the start, including access controls, identity management, deployment guardrails, and oversight of automated actions.
• Break down complex problems into deliverable components, defining scope, sequencing, implementation approaches, and delivery plans while determining feasibility and technical risk.
• Create reusable patterns, approaches, and tooling that strengthen future engagements, with the strongest ideas becoming capabilities and products we take to market.

Skills

Software engineering

Python

TypeScript

Cloud architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

LangChain

LangGraph

LlamaIndex

pgvector

Elasticsearch

OpenSearch

Job description

PA Consulting in Charlotte, NC is seeking an AI Architect to shape and deliver complex digital solutions for enterprise clients. You'll own delivery architecture for digital products, AI agents, and modernization initiatives, working with Product Strategists and AI Engineers to translate business problems into production-ready systems.

This hands-on role emphasizes technical judgment, cloud-native design on AWS/Azure/GCP, and secure, scalable solutions.