Enterprise AI/ML Team Lead & Architect

Vizient, Inc.; Centennial (CO); On-site; USD 118,000 - 206,000; Full time

Job summary

Vizient, Inc. seeks an experienced AI leader to architect and deliver enterprise-grade AI/ML solutions. You will steer the design and deployment of end-to-end platforms using LLMs, agentic workflows, and deterministic components for knowledge-intensive workflows.

You will collaborate with domain experts, product leaders, and data/platform teams, while mentoring engineers and ensuring production readiness, security, and observability across systems.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant experience required.
• Experience providing technical leadership for complex, production-grade software or AI systems.
• Hands-on experience designing, building, deploying, and operating enterprise AI applications.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, development, deployment, and operation of enterprise-grade AI and machine learning solutions.
• Design solutions that combine large language models, agentic workflows, retrieval, structured data, APIs, and deterministic processing.
• Translate complex expert workflows into modular, testable, and maintainable software components.
• Determine where AI inference, deterministic logic, retrieval, rules, or traditional data processing will produce the most reliable outcome.
• Establish evaluation strategies using representative test sets, expert-reviewed outcomes, regression testing, quality measurements, and stage-level analysis.
• Design observability capabilities that capture intermediate outputs, decision traces, evaluation results, performance measures, and failure modes.
• Lead investigations into grounding failures, hallucinations, retrieval quality, prompt behavior, model selection, orchestration, latency, accuracy, and cost.
• Evaluate architectural tradeoffs across performance, maintainability, extensibility, security, reliability, supportability, and operating cost.
• Develop APIs, services, prototypes, and production components while contributing to design reviews, code reviews, and complex technical problem-solving.
• Implement security, privacy, auditability, monitoring, and production-readiness practices for AI-enabled applications.
• Partner with domain experts, product leaders, architects, data teams, and platform teams to convert specialized knowledge into scalable system behavior.
• Develop reusable AI capabilities, engineering patterns, evaluation frameworks, and platform components that support multiple solutions.
• Mentor engineers and strengthen team practices across AI engineering, software design, testing, observability, and production operations.
• Drive continuous improvement by incorporating production metrics, evaluation results, expert feedback, and real-world user outcomes.

Skills

Python & API development

LLMs & AI systems

Prompt engineering & RAG

System design & architecture

Leadership & mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Relevant degree preferred

Tools

Azure AI Foundry / Azure AI

Databricks / Vector databases

Semantic search / embeddings

FastAPI or equivalent frameworks

Knowledge retrieval platforms

Job description

Vizient, Inc. seeks an experienced AI leader to architect and deliver enterprise-grade AI/ML solutions. You will steer the design and deployment of end-to-end platforms using LLMs, agentic workflows, and deterministic components for knowledge-intensive workflows.

You will collaborate with domain experts, product leaders, and data/platform teams, while mentoring engineers and ensuring production readiness, security, and observability across systems.