Azure Platform Architect for AI & Data Orchestration

Airo Digital Labs, LLC; Northern (KY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Airo Digital Labs, LLC is seeking an experienced chief architect to own the end-to-end platform and core intelligence architecture across the POD. You will define integration with POD and central platform, drive cross-cutting decisions on orchestration, security, data and AI patterns to enable teams to move fast and independently.

Lead the target architecture for the Orchestrator, Workflow Builder, Conduit and MCP / A2A components, and the Signal Engine, Action Engine, Librarian Agent and

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering with 4+ years in an architect role on cloud-native platforms.
• Demonstrable ownership of a production distributed system on Azure at meaningful scale.
• Experience architecting AI or data-intensive platforms is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own the target architecture for the Orchestrator, Workflow Builder, Conduit and MCP / A2A components, and the Signal Engine, Action Engine, Librarian Agent and Ontology Graph.
• Define event-driven and workflow-orchestration patterns (Temporal, Azure Event Hub) and the service/API contracts between POD services and the central platform.
• Set the security architecture — identity (Auth0), secrets management (Azure Key Vault), service-to-service auth — in line with central platform standards.
• Establish the agentic-AI reference patterns (LangGraph, Azure AI Foundry, MCP / A2A, Graph Database retrieval) so the AI and backend engineers build consistently.
• Guard non-functional requirements: scalability, resilience, observability, cost, and independence from other PODs.
• Run design reviews, maintain architecture decision records, and act as the technical liaison to the central platform and the POD.

Skills

Distributed architecture

Azure cloud

Event-driven

API design

Security by design

LLM orchestration

Tools

AKS

Event Hub

Key Vault

Databricks

LangGraph

Job description

Airo Digital Labs, LLC is seeking an experienced chief architect to own the end-to-end platform and core intelligence architecture across the POD. You will define integration with POD and central platform, drive cross-cutting decisions on orchestration, security, data and AI patterns to enable teams to move fast and independently.

Lead the target architecture for the Orchestrator, Workflow Builder, Conduit and MCP / A2A components, and the Signal Engine, Action Engine, Librarian Agent and