Enterprise AI Architect - Secure, Scalable Patterns & Governance

Epson America Inc.; Los Alamitos (CA); On-site; USD 187,000 - 229,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Paid time off

Life insurance & disability

401K with company match

Educational reimbursement

Employee discounts

Job summary

Epson America, Inc. seeks a Senior Technical Architect – Enterprise AI to define and govern the architecture for enterprise Generative AI applications, AI agents, and AI-enabled business processes.

Lead from concept through production, partnering with engineering, data, cloud/platform, cybersecurity, and business teams. The role emphasizes secure, scalable, reusable architecture patterns, API-driven design, and collaboration with Security, Privacy, and Data Governance teams to embed controls

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 10+ years of software, solution, cloud, or enterprise architecture experience, including modern cloud-native applications.
• Strong understanding of Generative AI, LLM-based applications, RAG, embeddings, semantic/vector search, and enterprise knowledge retrieval.
• Experience designing AI agent/agentic architectures, including tool calling, context management, orchestration, memory, and human approval.
• Strong experience with APIs, microservices, event-driven architecture, integration patterns, and identity/access management.
• Experience translating complex business requirements into secure, scalable, production-ready technical architectures.
• Strong technical communication, architecture documentation, and stakeholder-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the enterprise reference architecture for Generative AI applications and AI agents.
• Design architectures for RAG, conversational AI, enterprise search, agentic workflows, and AI-enabled applications.
• Establish reusable patterns for model access, model gateways, prompt/context management, embeddings, vector/semantic search, knowledge retrieval, and agent orchestration.
• Design secure integration patterns connecting AI agents with enterprise applications, APIs, data, tools, events, and workflow services.
• Define identity, authorization, human-in-the-loop, and approval patterns for AI agents and higher-risk actions.
• Establish standards for AI security, evaluation, observability, tracing, auditability, resiliency, performance, and cost management.
• Evaluate AI models, platforms, frameworks, and emerging technologies and recommend appropriate enterprise standards.
• Develop reference architectures, reusable components, technical standards, architecture diagrams, and reference implementations.
• Conduct architecture and technical design reviews and provide technical leadership to development teams.
• Partner with Security, Privacy, Data Governance, and Responsible AI teams to embed appropriate controls into AI solutions.
• Ensure architectures are scalable, maintainable, API-driven, loosely coupled, and model/provider agnostic where appropriate.

Skills

Enterprise architecture leadership

Technical communication

Cloud architecture

Security architecture

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/IT or related field

Master's degree in CS/Engineering/AI/Data Science (preferred)

Tools

Azure OpenAI/OpenAI

AWS Bedrock

Google Vertex AI

Snowflake

Salesforce/SAP/Oracle integration

Job description

Epson America, Inc. seeks a Senior Technical Architect – Enterprise AI to define and govern the architecture for enterprise Generative AI applications, AI agents, and AI-enabled business processes.

Lead from concept through production, partnering with engineering, data, cloud/platform, cybersecurity, and business teams. The role emphasizes secure, scalable, reusable architecture patterns, API-driven design, and collaboration with Security, Privacy, and Data Governance teams to embed controls