Artificial Intelligence & Automation Architect

Georgia Institute of Technology

Atlanta (GA)

On-site

USD 129,000 - 180,000

Full time

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Job summary

Georgia Tech is seeking an AI and Automation Architect at Lead Professional level to design and govern enterprise architecture for AI, data, and automation across the Institute. The role sets standards, security controls, and lifecycle practices aligned with privacy, cybersecurity, accessibility, and compliance.

You will lead collaborative design sessions, mentor staff, evaluate technologies, and define platform requirements for capacity, resilience, and observability, reporting to senior

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline or equivalent, plus 6+ years of relevant experience.
Preferred Master’s degree with related experience in enterprise AI/automation.
Experience shaping AI governance, security, privacy, and compliance controls.

Responsibilities

Design cloud, integration, and platform architecture standards for AI, ML, and automation.
Define and maintain security architecture: identity, access, encryption, data protection.
Implement safeguards against AI-specific risks and data exposure.
Evaluate technologies for capability, privacy, risk, and cost.
Architect data grounding strategies and retrieval pipelines for AI use.
Lead architecture reviews and collaborative design sessions with stakeholders.
Translate governance requirements into enforceable architecture controls.
Provide mentoring and keep abreast of emerging technologies.
Oversee platform capacity, performance, resilience, and observability requirements.
Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

AI architecture

Cloud platforms

Security architecture

Governance

Leadership & mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in related discipline or equivalent

Master's degree in related discipline or equivalent (preferred)

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

APIs & integration frameworks

Job description

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our strategic plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values

Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:

1. Students are our top priority.

2. We strive for excellence.

3. We thrive on diversity.

4. We celebrate collaboration.

5. We champion innovation.

6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.

7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.

8. We act ethically.

9. We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

Location

Atlanta, GA- In office. On-site

Job Summary

The AI and Automation Architect is responsible for designing, governing, and advancing the architectural frameworks, platforms, integration patterns, and technical controls that enable secure, scalable, and responsible artificial intelligence and intelligent automation across the Institute. This role establishes enterprise architecture standards, governance practices, and lifecycle controls that support academic, research, student, and administrative initiatives while ensuring alignment with institutional requirements for data governance, privacy, cybersecurity, accessibility, compliance, reliability, and risk management.

This position is at the level of Lead Professional, emphasizing enterprise-scale architecture and deep technical expertise that informs and enables institutional AI, data, governance, and platform strategies set by senior leadership. For more information on this level, please visit https://publish.smartsheet.com/4a3a97a4b2154516ae722437d46fa038

Responsibilities

Job Duty 1 - Design cloud, integration, and platform architecture standards that connect AI, machine learning, and automation solutions with enterprise data, systems, and applications.
Job Duty 2 - Define and maintain security architecture and controls: identity, access, network isolation, encryption, secrets management, and data-loss prevention for the enterprise AI and automation platform.
Job Duty 3 - Implement technical safeguards against AI-specific risks, including prompt injection, sensitive-data exposure, insecure tool use, excessive agent permissions, model or supply-chain compromise, and unauthorized AI services.
Job Duty 4 - Evaluate AI, cloud, integration, and automation technologies using documented criteria for capability, security, privacy, accessibility, risk, supportability, continuity, and cost.
Job Duty 5 - Architect data retrieval and grounding strategies, including retrieval-augmented generation and data pipelines, that allow AI and automation tools to consume Institute data accurately and securely, in alignment with data governance standards.
Job Duty 6 - Lead collaborative design sessions and architecture reviews to align AI and automation solutions with institutional goals, stakeholder needs, and approved architecture standards.
Job Duty 7 - Translate AI governance requirements into enforceable architecture standards, documentation practices, technical controls, and lifecycle processes for AI models, automation workflows, and integration components.
Job Duty 8 - Provide technical guidance, mentoring, and training on cloud, AI, and automation architecture practices, and maintain current knowledge of emerging technologies.
Job Duty 9 - Oversee architecture assessments and define platform requirements for capacity, performance, resilience, disaster recovery, scalability, service objectives, and observability for the enterprise AI and automation platform.
Job Duty 10 - Perform other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

Educational Requirements

Bachelor's degree in related discipline or equivalent, related experience

Required Experience

6+ years of relevant experience

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred Educational Qualifications

Master's degree in related discipline or equivalent, related experience

Preferred Experience

Experience designing or operating production AI, machine learning, generative AI, or intelligent automation capabilities in a complex organization.
Experience architecting agentic AI systems, including tool integration, orchestration, and human oversight controls.
Experience with major cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and enterprise API or integration frameworks.
Experience establishing architecture standards, reference architectures, or review processes adopted across multiple teams.
Experience translating governance, security, privacy, or compliance requirements into technical controls and auditable evidence.
Experience supporting higher education, research, healthcare, government, or large enterprise environments.

Proposed Salary

$129,000 to $180,000 depending on experience and preferred skills.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

Strong knowledge of enterprise and solution architecture principles, including distributed systems, integration patterns, and reference architecture design.
Strong understanding of how AI models and agents behave in production, including non-deterministic outputs, failure modes, evaluation methods, and performance variability.
Strong understanding of identity, authorization, and least-privilege principles as they apply to non-human actors such as service accounts, automations, and AI agents.
Working knowledge of data architecture concepts, including modeling, metadata, lineage, and categorization, sufficient to partner with data engineering, data platforms, and governance teams.
Working knowledge of privacy, accessibility, and records management obligations as they translate into system design constraints.
Knowledge of cloud consumption and cost models sufficient to design solutions that are financially transparent and sustainable at scale.
Ability to design architectures that accommodate rapid change in models, vendors, and tooling while minimizing lock-in and rework.
Ability to weigh competing tradeoffs across security, usability, cost, and speed of delivery, and to document decisions and rationale clearly.
Ability to earn credibility with engineering, security, privacy, data, and governance partners and to drive adoption of standards without direct authority.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain architectural and risk tradeoffs to executive and non-technical audiences.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills, with discretion in handling sensitive information.

USG Core Values

The University System of Georgia is comprised of our 25 institutions of higher education and learning as well as the System Office. Our USG Statement of Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values serve as the foundation for all that we do as an organization, and each USG community member is responsible for demonstrating and upholding these standards. More details on the USG Statement of Core Values and Code of Conduct are available in USG Board Policy 8.2.18.1.2 and can be found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section8/C224/#p8.2.18_personnel_conduct.

Additionally, USG supports Freedom of Expression as stated in Board Policy 6.5 Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section6/C2653.

Equal Employment Opportunity

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. The Institute is committed to maintaining a fair and respectful environment for all. To that end, and in accordance with federal and state law, Board of Regents policy, and Institute policy, Georgia Tech provides equal opportunity to all faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including applicants for admission and/or employment, contractors, volunteers, and participants in institutional programs, activities, or services. Georgia Tech complies with all applicable laws and regulations governing equal opportunity in the workplace and in educational activities.

Equal opportunity and decisions based on merit are fundamental values of the University System of Georgia ("USG") and Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech prohibits discrimination, including discriminatory harassment, on the basis of an individual's race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetics, or veteran status in its programs, activities, employment, and admissions. Further, Georgia Tech prohibits citizenship status, immigration status, and national origin discrimination in hiring, firing, and recruitment, except where such restrictions are required in order to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or Attorney General directive, or where they are required by Federal, State, or local government contract.

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