GenAI Solutions Architect

Glint Tech Solutions; Buffalo (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Glint Tech Solutions seeks a GenAI Solutions Architect to lead hands-on design and integration of GenAI/LLM solutions for a major financial services client. The role blends architecture leadership with practical delivery, translating capabilities into reference architectures and patterns.

Remote within the USA or onsite in Buffalo, NY or Wilmington, DE, with an initial two-to-three week onsite onboarding. You will review designs, govern access patterns, and mentor delivery teams while aligning

Qualifications

• 8+ years in solution or application architecture with hands-on cloud delivery.
• Hands-on GenAI/LLM delivery, integration patterns, and design reviews.
• Azure OpenAI and enterprise governance experience.
• Proven ability to produce reference architectures and design docs.
• Experience shaping security/compliance in regulated environments.
• Strong consulting, stakeholder communication and facilitation.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the consulting architect for AI use-case teams across the bank.
• Produce and maintain reference architectures, design patterns, and working examples.
• Review designs against platform standards and governance requirements.
• Advise on model selection, prompt/context architecture, retrieval design.
• Ensure designs route model access through the governed enterprise gateway.
• Translate governance standards into architecture requirements for delivery teams.
• Partner with platform engineering on evolving platform capabilities.
• Document network, identity, data-classification, and environment-separation considerations.
• Collaborate with Cybersecurity on AI threat modeling and risk controls.
• Provide hands-on design guidance to delivery teams and mentors.

Skills

GenAI solutions

Solution architecture

Stakeholder communication

Consulting

Cloud-native apps

RAG pipelines

Tools

Azure OpenAI

API Management

Entra ID

Key Vault

Networking

Landing-zone concepts

Job description

Job Title: GenAI Solutions Architect

Location: Remote within the USA, or onsite in Buffalo, NY / Wilmington, DE (client preference for candidates near these areas). New hires are required to work onsite at the client's office for the first 2-3 weeks (treated as a business trip; travel expenses covered by the company)

Company Overview

Glint Tech Solutions is a women-owned, global IT staffing and recruiting firm serving enterprise clients across the USA and Canada.

Project Description

A leading financial services client is seeking a GenAI Solutions Architect to serve as the hands-on consulting architect ensuring AI use cases across the bank are designed and connected the right way - aligned to the enterprise AI platform architecture, approved integration patterns, and governance standards. As business and technology teams stand up AI-enabled applications, this role is their design partner, translating platform capabilities and standards into concrete, buildable solution architectures and reviewing designs before they harden. This is a deeply technical role for an architect who still builds: producing reference architectures, integration patterns, and working examples, while pairing with delivery teams to accelerate adoption and prevent rework and governance escapes.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the consulting architect for AI use-case teams across the bank, shaping solution designs, data flows, model access patterns, and integration approaches
• Produce and maintain reference architectures, design patterns, and working examples for common use-case shapes (RAG applications, document processing, workflow automation, agent-based patterns)
• Review solution designs against platform standards and governance requirements before build; document findings and drive remediation with delivery teams
• Advise on model selection, prompt/context architecture, retrieval design, and oversight/guardrail patterns appropriate to each use case's risk tier
• Ensure all designs route model access through the governed enterprise gateway with correct entitlements, quotas, and logging; prevent parallel or ungoverned access paths
• Translate governance standards into architecture requirements delivery teams can implement
• Partner with platform engineering on the evolution of platform capabilities based on real use-case demand
• Document network, identity, data-classification, and environment-separation considerations for solution designs
• Partner with Cybersecurity architecture on AI threat modeling, prompt-injection risk, and adversarial-testing requirements
• Pair with application teams that lack AI delivery experience, providing hands-on design and build guidance
• Create and deliver architecture enablement materials, design guides, and pattern documentation
• Support solution reviews in governance forums with clear, evidence-based architecture assessments
• Transfer patterns, documentation, and working knowledge to bank FTEs throughout the engagement

Mandatory Skills

• 8+ years of experience in solution architecture, application architecture, or senior engineering roles, including hands-on delivery of cloud-native applications
• Hands-on experience architecting and delivering GenAI/LLM-based solutions - model integration, RAG pipelines, prompt/context engineering, and agent or workflow patterns
• Strong Azure experience - Azure OpenAI/AI services, API Management, Entra ID, Key Vault, networking and landing-zone concepts, environment separation
• Demonstrated experience producing reference architectures, integration patterns, and design documentation adopted by multiple teams
• Experience designing within security, risk, and compliance constraints in a regulated environment
• Strong consulting skills - stakeholder communication, design facilitation, and the ability to influence without authority

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Financial services experience and familiarity with banking SDLC governance (design gates, architecture review, permit-to-build/operate models)
• Experience with AI gateway/governance patterns - model allowlisting, entitlement-based access, usage controls, audit logging
• Experience with vector stores, retrieval services, evaluation harnesses, and MCP/tool-integration patterns
• Experience mentoring teams new to AI delivery