Hands-On Enterprise AI Architect — Azure & GenAI

Alvarez & Marsal; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 195,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare plans

Flexible spending accounts

Life/AD&D insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off

Federal holidays & parental leave

Job summary

Alvarez & Marsal is seeking a Senior Enterprise AI Solutions Architect to design and deliver scalable, secure, AI-enabled solutions across Azure cloud. This role blends architecture leadership with hands-on engineering, guiding onshore and offshore teams toward production-ready outcomes.

You will translate business requirements into scalable architectures, develop roadmaps, and drive adoption of AI technologies across the organization, collaborating with product managers and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering or architecture, incl. ≥6 years as a senior architect.
• Hands-on architect with ~50% design, coding, prototyping and integration.
• Deep experience with Microsoft Azure.
• Generative AI/Agentic AI technologies knowledge.
• Experience designing distributed systems, APIs and event-driven architectures.
• Enterprise architecture: scalability, security, reliability, observability.
• Proven leadership of offshore or multi-team delivery.
• Excellent communication with product managers, stakeholders and executives.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end architecture of enterprise AI solutions across frontend, backend, data platforms, APIs, AI services and Azure.
• Translate requirements into scalable, secure architectures and define the technical roadmap.
• Develop architecture diagrams, data flows, integration patterns, and specs for teams.
• Hands-on development ~50%: prototyping, coding, integrating, troubleshooting solutions.
• Develop PoCs and production components for AI, integration and cloud challenges.
• Collaborate with on/offshore developers to ensure architecture translates to working software.

Skills

Hands-on architecture

Communication

Leadership

Problem solving

Tools

Azure

LLMs

Vector databases

AI SDKs

Job description

Alvarez & Marsal is seeking a Senior Enterprise AI Solutions Architect to design and deliver scalable, secure, AI-enabled solutions across Azure cloud. This role blends architecture leadership with hands-on engineering, guiding onshore and offshore teams toward production-ready outcomes.

You will translate business requirements into scalable architectures, develop roadmaps, and drive adoption of AI technologies across the organization, collaborating with product managers and stakeholders.