Director of AI Solutions, Architecture & Tooling

SMBC; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

SMBC Group in Charlotte, NC, seeks a Director of AI Solutions, Architecture and Tooling within the Platform Engineering team to define and lead enterprise AI/GenAI delivery on Databricks and Azure.

You will own reference architectures, toolchains, and reusable assets, partnering with cybersecurity, risk, data governance, and business leaders to accelerate adoption with governance and cost discipline in a regulated financial environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in AI/ML engineering, software platform engineering, or enterprise application architecture.

Responsibilities

• Define the enterprise AI solution architecture strategy and reference architectures.
• Own the AI developer toolchain and golden paths for reusable SDKs and templates.
• Lead solution architecture for retrieval-augmented generation and agentic workflows.
• Evaluate AI models, frameworks, vendors, and tools and make adoption recommendations.

Skills

Advanced Python

AI/GenAI frameworks

Enterprise architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field

Tools

Databricks

Azure

Job description

SMBC Group in Charlotte, NC, seeks a Director of AI Solutions, Architecture and Tooling within the Platform Engineering team to define and lead enterprise AI/GenAI delivery on Databricks and Azure.

You will own reference architectures, toolchains, and reusable assets, partnering with cybersecurity, risk, data governance, and business leaders to accelerate adoption with governance and cost discipline in a regulated financial environment.