GenAI Architect

TekWissen LLC; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

TekWissen Group is seeking an experienced GenAI Architect to lead the design, governance, and delivery of enterprise AI/ML solutions for a regulated financial services environment. The role focuses on Azure-based platforms, RAG, and MLOps practices to ensure secure, scalable production systems.

You will define platform architecture, establish AI governance standards, mentor teams, and drive pioneering agentic workflows while aligning with privacy and compliance requirements.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering and AI/ML systems experience.
• Strong expertise in Azure AI services, cloud architecture, and enterprise-scale AI deployments.
• Proven experience with Agentic AI workflows, RAG, FastAPI, and Pydantic.
• Hands-on experience with MLOps/LLMOps, model training, fine-tuning, and evaluation frameworks.
• Experience implementing AI solutions in regulated financial services environments.
• Strong understanding of AI governance, security, compliance, and observability.

Responsibilities

• Architect and govern AI platforms leveraging Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Search, Azure Functions, and Azure Storage.
• Design and oversee agentic AI frameworks, AI governance models, access controls, and observability standards.
• Lead RAG architectures, model evaluation, prompt engineering standards, and cost optimization strategies.
• Establish enterprise MLOps/LLMOps practices including model versioning, drift detection, evaluation pipelines, and deployment governance.
• Drive security, compliance, and data governance aligned with financial industry regulations and privacy standards.
• Define long-term AI roadmap, including on-prem/private model hosting, fine-tuning strategies, and model-routing frameworks.
• Mentor engineering teams and conduct architecture reviews.

Skills

Azure AI services

Cloud architecture

Agentic AI workflows

MLOps/LLMOps

Prompt engineering

Tools

FastAPI

Pydantic

Job description

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is an American multinational information technology services and consulting company and is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses.

Job Title: GenAI Architect
Location: Charlotte, NC or Atlanta, GA
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Hybrid

Job Description:

Overview:

Seeking an experienced GenAI Architect to lead the design, governance, and delivery of enterprise AI/ML solutions for a regulated financial services environment. This role will define platform architecture, AI governance standards, agentic workflows, RAG solutions, and MLOps/LLMOps practices while driving innovation across Azure AI technologies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect and govern AI platforms leveraging Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Search, Azure Functions, and Azure Storage.
• Design and oversee agentic AI frameworks, AI governance models, access controls, and observability standards.
• Lead RAG architectures, model evaluation, prompt engineering standards, and cost optimization strategies.
• Establish enterprise MLOps/LLMOps practices including model versioning, drift detection, evaluation pipelines, and deployment governance.
• Drive security, compliance, and data governance aligned with financial industry regulations and privacy standards.
• Define long-term AI roadmap, including on-prem/private model hosting, fine-tuning strategies, and model-routing frameworks.
• Mentor engineering teams and conduct architecture reviews.

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of software engineering and AI/ML systems experience.
• Strong expertise in Azure AI services, cloud architecture, and enterprise-scale AI deployments.
• Proven experience with Agentic AI workflows, RAG, FastAPI, and Pydantic.
• Hands-on experience with MLOps/LLMOps, model training, fine-tuning, and evaluation frameworks.
• Experience implementing AI solutions in regulated financial services environments.
• Strong understanding of AI governance, security, compliance, and observability.

Top 3 Required Skills:

• AI/ML Solution Design & Architecture.
• Deep Azure Cloud & AI Platform Expertise.
• Agentic Workflow Development Experience.

Ideal Candidate:

• A senior AI architect who combines deep Azure expertise with hands-on GenAI, MLOps, governance, and financial-services domain experience to build scalable, secure, production-grade AI platforms.

Years of Experience:

• 17 Years of Experience

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.