AI Solutions Architect: Cloud-Native Data & LLM

Cuesta-Partners; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Cuesta-Partners is seeking an AI Solutions Architect to serve as the technical and strategic bridge between customers, delivery teams, and executive stakeholders for AI engagements. You will lead end-to-end solution design from discovery through handoff, ensuring scalable, integrated and financially viable architectures.

You will collaborate with product teams to balance technical trade-offs, architect AI solutions leveraging LLMs and RAG patterns, and mentor junior architects while contributing

Qualifications

• 8+ years in solution architecture or related roles.
• Experience designing cloud-native AI solutions across AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Hands-on with DL/LLM tech stacks.
• Strong communication to stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Design cloud-native AI and data solution architectures, including reference patterns, data flows, AI/ML workflows, and LLM orchestration that balance scalability, security, cost, and speed to value.
• Translate AI and data architectures into clear diagrams, executive-ready narratives, visuals, and roadmaps for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Advise clients on AI strategy, build-vs-buy decisions, governance, and ethical considerations.
• Integrate and orchestrate data across multiple platforms, including cloud data warehouses and lakes (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks) and external APIs
• Collaborate with ML Engineers and Data Engineers to validate architectural alignment and integration feasibility.
• Conduct architecture reviews and risk assessments; identify and execute course corrections as needed.
• Architect AI solutions that leverage LLMs and RAG patterns to deliver interpretable insights and human-readable outputs from complex model results.
• Mentor junior architects and consultants; contribute to reusable accelerators, templates, and an internal knowledge base.
• Provide technical oversight across multiple client engagements, ensuring architectural consistency, delivery quality, and alignment between business requirements and implemented solutions.
• Provide hands‑on guidance to engineering and data teams on API integrations, data pipelines, and AI service connectivity, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and maintainable.
• Stay current on emerging AI platforms, LLM tooling, and cloud-based data services, continuously evaluating how they can enhance our integration capabilities.

Skills

AI/ML architecture

Cloud-native design

API design (REST/GraphQL)

Executive communication

Data modeling

Consulting experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

LangChain

Hugging Face

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

Pulumi

OpenAI API

Job description

Cuesta-Partners is seeking an AI Solutions Architect to serve as the technical and strategic bridge between customers, delivery teams, and executive stakeholders for AI engagements. You will lead end-to-end solution design from discovery through handoff, ensuring scalable, integrated and financially viable architectures.

You will collaborate with product teams to balance technical trade-offs, architect AI solutions leveraging LLMs and RAG patterns, and mentor junior architects while contributing