Enterprise AI Architect

Realign Llc; Eden Prairie (MN); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Realign Llc is seeking an Enterprise AI Architect in Eden Prairie, MN (Hybrid) with hands-on full development experience across frontend, backend, data platforms, and cloud services. You will define enterprise AI reference architectures, establish standards, and lead AI engineering initiatives to ensure secure, scalable solutions.

Collaboration with security, platform, and business teams is essential to translate AI strategy into delivery outcomes.

Qualifications

• Hands-on full-stack development across frontend, backend, APIs, data platforms and cloud services.
• Experience with AI-assisted development, DevSecOps, and platform engineering.
• Ability to design secure, scalable enterprise AI platforms with governance and compliance.
• Proficient in modern AI tooling and code-generation frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, and implementation of enterprise-scale AI solutions with cloud-native patterns.
• Define enterprise AI reference architectures, standards, and guardrails for scalability and security.
• Drive adoption of Agentic AI and AI-powered software engineering across the delivery lifecycle.
• Architect solutions with observability, resilience, governance, security, and compliance from inception to production.
• Collaborate with business, engineering, security, and platform teams to align AI with strategy and outcomes.
• Oversee modernization of legacy apps via refactoring, cloud migration, and AI-assisted development.

Skills

Performance Architect

Job description

Enterprise AI Architect

Location : Eden Prairie, MN (Hybrid)

Job Type : Full time Permanent

Enterprise AI Architect with Full Development Experience (FDE), possessing deep expertise in architecture, hands-on software engineering, AI-assisted development, Agentic AI frameworks, DevSecOps, platform engineering, cloud-native solutions, and enterprise data platforms. Proven ability to architect, develop, secure, automate, and operationalize large-scale AI and software solutions while driving engineering excellence through GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Codex, Databricks Genie, Snowflake Cortex, and modern AI-powered software delivery practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of enterprise-scale AI solutions using modern architectural patterns, clean architecture principles, domain-driven design (DDD), and cloud-native technologies.
• Define enterprise AI reference architectures, engineering standards, development frameworks, and implementation guardrails to ensure scalability, maintainability, security, and operational excellence.
• Drive adoption of Agentic AI, AI-powered software engineering, and intelligent automation across the software delivery lifecycle.
• Architect solutions with built-in observability, resilience, governance, security, and compliance from inception through production deployment.
• Partner with business, engineering, security, and platform teams to align AI capabilities with enterprise technology strategy and business outcomes.

1. Full Development Experience (FDE) and Engineering Excellence

• Demonstrate hands-on full-stack development experience spanning frontend, backend, APIs, data platforms, cloud services, and AI-enabled applications.
• Lead development teams in implementing modern engineering practices including test-driven development (TDD), CI/CD automation, code quality enforcement, and platform engineering standards.
• Define and enforce software engineering best practices with mandatory automated test coverage, code reviews, architecture reviews, and deployment quality controls.
• Drive modernization of legacy applications through refactoring, cloud migration, microservices transformation, and AI-assisted development methodologies.
• Establish engineering productivity frameworks leveraging AI coding assistants, automated development workflows, and intelligent code generation.

2. Secure-by-Design AI Platforms

• Architect secure AI and software platforms aligned with OWASP standards, Zero Trust principles, and enterprise cybersecurity requirements.
• Implement enterprise controls for HIPAA, PHI, PII, GDPR, and regulatory compliance across data, applications, and AI workloads.
• Integrate security validation throughout the development lifecycle using SAST, SCA, container scanning, secrets management, and policy-as-code frameworks.
• Design auditable AI systems with governance, lineage, traceability, access controls, and compliance monitoring capabilities.

3. AI Engineering, DevSecOps, and Delivery Automation

• Design and implement AI Engineering Harnesses supporting build validation, quality gates, security scanning, automated testing, and deployment automation.
• Establish enterprise DevSecOps frameworks integrating
• Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
• Software Composition Analysis (SCA)
• Container Security Scanning
• Dependency Management
• Policy Compliance Validation
• Infrastructure-as-Code Governance
• Lead implementation of performance benchmarking frameworks for APIs, AI models, applications, and distributed platforms.
• Build highly automated CI/CD pipelines enabling secure, reliable, and repeatable software delivery.

4. Agentic AI Development Frameworks

• Design and operationalize multi-agent software engineering ecosystems to accelerate architecture, development, testing, security review, and governance activities.
• Utilize specialized AI agents including
• Enterprise Architect Agent
• Solution Architect Agent
• Data Architect Agent
• Backend Engineering Agent
• Test Engineering Agent
• Security Review Agent
• Pull Request Review Agent
• Drive adoption of agent-based development workflows to improve engineering productivity, software quality, and delivery velocity.

5. AI-Assisted Software Engineering Toolchain

• Extensive hands-on experience using
• Visual Studio Code with GitHub Copilot
• Claude Code
• OpenAI Codex
• Enterprise AI coding assistants
• Leverage repository-wide reasoning, large-scale codebase analysis, architecture discovery, code modernization, and AI-assisted implementation patterns.
• Architect AI-powered developer experiences integrating intelligent code review, automated remediation, documentation generation, and engineering workflow automation.

6. Data & AI Platform Architecture

• Design and implement scalable data and AI platforms leveraging Databricks, Snowflake, cloud-native services, and modern data architectures.
• Experience with
• Databricks Lakehouse
• Databricks Genie
• Delta Lake
• ML/AI Pipelines
• Snowflake Cortex/CoCo
• Enterprise Data Governance
• Enable self-service analytics, conversational AI, semantic data access, and enterprise-scale data engineering capabilities.

Required Skills

• Performance Architect