Flexible Arizona Hybrid AI Solutions Architect

Socket.dev; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work from home options

Job summary

State of Arizona - AZDES - DTS is seeking an AI Solutions Architect (Contractor) to design and implement secure, scalable AI systems in collaboration with DES teams. The role emphasizes data ingestion, RAG pipelines, LLM orchestration, and human-in-the-loop workflows.

The candidate will provide technical leadership, define architectures, and ensure compliance with state security, privacy, accessibility, and data governance requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science is required.
• Experience designing secure, scalable AI architectures is expected.
• Knowledge of compliance, privacy, accessibility and data governance in public sector contexts is required.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of secure, scalable AI and Agentic AI solutions aligned with DES mission and public-sector standards.
• Define end-to-end AI architectures including data ingestion, RAG pipelines, LLM orchestration and human-in-the-loop workflows.
• Provide technical leadership and architectural documentation for approvals and guidance to internal teams and system integrators.
• Ensure compliance with State of Arizona security, privacy, accessibility, and data-governance requirements (PII, HIPAA, CJIS where applicable).
• Establish reference architectures and best practices for responsible, ethical, and compliant AI use across DES.
• Evaluate and integrate AI platforms, cloud services, and vendor solutions with procurement and legal teams.
• Design architectures that support explainability, auditability, bias mitigation, and transparency in decision-support systems.
• Collaborate with DevOps, cybersecurity, and data teams to operationalize AI solutions from POC to production.
• Support AI strategy, roadmap development, and executive briefings to scale AI capabilities across DES programs.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (listed for requirement).

Skills

AI Architecture

Data Ingestion

RAG Pipelines

LLM Orchestration

Azure DevOps

Git

CI/CD

.NET/C#

HTML

JavaScript

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Azure DevOps

Git

CI/CD

.NET/C#

HTML

JavaScript

Job description

State of Arizona - AZDES - DTS is seeking an AI Solutions Architect (Contractor) to design and implement secure, scalable AI systems in collaboration with DES teams. The role emphasizes data ingestion, RAG pipelines, LLM orchestration, and human-in-the-loop workflows.

The candidate will provide technical leadership, define architectures, and ensure compliance with state security, privacy, accessibility, and data governance requirements.