Generative AI Architect & Agentic Systems Lead

AmerisourceBergen Corporation; Town of Texas, Northern (WI, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

AmerisourceBergen Corporation (Cencora) seeks an experienced hands-on AI Architect to lead enterprise Generative and Agentic AI solutions, spanning system design, rapid POC/MVP delivery, and API-first architecture across our AI platform.

The role combines deep expertise in LLMs, RAG pipelines, and multi-agent orchestration with mentoring of engineers and governance of AI practices for scalable, production-grade systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS/AI/Data Science.
• 6+ years IT experience across software, cloud, and/or AI/ML.
• 3+ years hands-on architecture in Generative AI/Agentic AI.
• Strong Python and modern AI development frameworks.
• Experience with LLMs (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini) and RAG architectures.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end architecture for enterprise Generative AI and Agentic AI solutions, from concept through production.
• Lead rapid POC and MVP development to validate AI use cases and de-risk technical approaches before full build-out.
• Architect scalable AI platforms leveraging LLMs, RAG pipelines, vector databases, and multi-agent orchestration frameworks.
• Design API-first architectures (REST/GraphQL) that expose AI capabilities to downstream applications and enterprise systems.
• Define technology selection, architecture standards, and best practices for prompt engineering, model evaluation, and AI governance / Responsible AI.
• Architect and guide MLOps/LLMOps practices for deployment, monitoring, and model/agent lifecycle management.
• Lead architecture reviews and present designs to executive sponsors and engineering teams; drive stakeholder alignment.
• Mentor AI engineers, set coding and architecture standards, and raise the technical bar across the team.
• Evaluate and select cloud-native AI services (Azure AI Foundry, Google Vertex AI), balancing scalability, cost, security, and performance.

Skills

Python

LLMs

RAG architectures

MLOps/LLMOps

Cloud platforms

AI governance

Architectural leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in CS/AI/Data Science

Tools

LangGraph

AutoGen

Semantic Kernel

REST/GraphQL

Job description

AmerisourceBergen Corporation (Cencora) seeks an experienced hands-on AI Architect to lead enterprise Generative and Agentic AI solutions, spanning system design, rapid POC/MVP delivery, and API-first architecture across our AI platform.

The role combines deep expertise in LLMs, RAG pipelines, and multi-agent orchestration with mentoring of engineers and governance of AI practices for scalable, production-grade systems.