Enterprise AI Architect: Strategy, Data & API Enablement

Polluxa, Inc.; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Polluxa, Inc. seeks an Enterprise Architect- AI to lead the design, strategy, and implementation of AI-enabled systems across the enterprise.

You will define how AI is integrated into the client ecosystem, leveraging data architecture, APIs, and event-driven systems to drive innovation, personalization, and efficiency. Your leadership will span AI architecture, data foundations, APIs, real-time AI, and responsible AI governance, mentoring teams and aligning initiatives with organizational

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering, architecture, or related roles, with increasing focus on AI/ML systems.
• 3 years as an Enterprise or

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the client's enterprise AI architecture strategy, including reference architectures and best practices.
• Establish patterns for integrating AI/ML and generative AI (e.g., LLMs) into enterprise systems.
• Drive alignment between AI initiatives and institutional priorities (student success, personalization, operational efficiency).
• Architect scalable AI solutions such as recommendation systems, intelligent assistants, and automation workflows.
• Define reusable AI services and platforms (e.g., model serving, prompt orchestration, inference pipelines).
• Guide build vs. buy decisions for AI platforms and tooling.
• Ensure robust data architecture to support AI/ML (feature engineering, data pipelines, data quality).
• Partner with data engineering and data science teams to enable MLOps and model lifecycle management .
• Promote data-as-a-product principles to support AI use cases.
• Design APIs and service layers to expose AI capabilities across the enterprise.
• Enable integration of AI services into applications through secure, scalable API frameworks.
• Support composable architectures that embed AI into workflows.
• Leverage event-driven architecture (EDA) to enable real-time AI use cases.
• Design streaming pipelines for inference, feedback loops, and adaptive systems.
• Define event contracts and ensure interoperability across domains.
• Establish frameworks for ethical, secure, and compliant AI usage (e.g., bias mitigation, transparency, FERPA alignment).
• Define governance for model usage, data privacy, and AI lifecycle oversight.
• Partner with legal, security, data science, MLOps, and compliance teams.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, data science, MLOps, and academic stakeholders.
• Mentor architects, engineers, and AI practitioners.
• Influence enterprise-wide adoption of AI capabilities.

Skills

AI/ML architecture

Enterprise software

MLOps

Data governance

Job description

Polluxa, Inc. seeks an Enterprise Architect- AI to lead the design, strategy, and implementation of AI-enabled systems across the enterprise.

You will define how AI is integrated into the client ecosystem, leveraging data architecture, APIs, and event-driven systems to drive innovation, personalization, and efficiency. Your leadership will span AI architecture, data foundations, APIs, real-time AI, and responsible AI governance, mentoring teams and aligning initiatives with organizational