Forward-Deployed AI Solution Architect

EPAM Systems Inc; Seattle (WA); Remote; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) match

PTO

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Employee discounts

Learning benefits

Job summary

EPAM Systems, Inc. is seeking a Solution Architect to embed with client teams and design end-to-end AI solutions, including RAG, agentic workflows, MCP tool integration, and secure models.

You will lead architectural decisions, build Python proofs, and guide the pilot-to-production transition under governance. Remote role; on-site flexibility may apply in Seattle as required by project needs.

Qualifications

• Client-facing solution architecture experience with production AI or software.
• Strong cloud, microservices, APIs, data flows, IAM, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Practical knowledge of LLM apps, RAG, AI agent frameworks, MCP, and tool calling.
• Recent hands-on Python coding to prototype and validate AI implementations.
• Experience defining LLM evaluation, observability, security controls, and governance.
• Clear documentation and ability to communicate with business and technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Partner with client business, product, engineering, security, and operations teams to resolve requirements and record architecture decisions
• Design end-to-end AI solution architectures covering RAG, agentic workflows and orchestration, MCP tool integration, IAM, enterprise integration, LLM security, AI observability, and LLM evaluation
• Build Cloud FinOps cost models that link feature cost, usage, quality, and expected business value
• Document AI governance evidence for each agent, including autonomy limits, tool permissions, human checkpoints, evaluation and testing results, and rollback controls
• Model domain Knowledge Graph slices covering entities, relationships, business constraints, provenance, and owners, applying GraphRAG where relationships improve retrieval
• Build Python reference implementations and technical proofs with Forward Deployed Engineers, then preserve architecture integrity through the pilot-to-production transition under Architecture Governance and publish reusable patterns

Skills

Solution architecture

Cloud computing

Microservice architecture

APIs

Identity and access management

Enterprise integration

LLM / AI

Python scripting

Tools

MCP tool integration

Job description

EPAM Systems, Inc. is seeking a Solution Architect to embed with client teams and design end-to-end AI solutions, including RAG, agentic workflows, MCP tool integration, and secure models.

You will lead architectural decisions, build Python proofs, and guide the pilot-to-production transition under governance. Remote role; on-site flexibility may apply in Seattle as required by project needs.