Lead Agentic Architect for Scalable AI Platforms

AHEAD; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

AHEAD is seeking an Agentic Solutions Architect to design production-grade agentic solutions on our internal platform across multiple delivery squads. You will understand the problem to solve, shape viable options, and guide squads toward secure, observable, and reusable outcomes while hands-on coding.

You will partner with Product, Tech Leads, security, and business stakeholders to ensure architectures align with platform standards and engineering strategy, delivering scalable, staged solutions

Qualifications

• Experience designing enterprise-grade agentic AI solutions.
• Strong knowledge of AWS, cloud-hosted models and API-based systems.
• Hands-on architect with leadership experience across multiple squads.
• Excellent communication with business and executives.
• Experience with security, privacy, and observability considerations.

Responsibilities

• Partner with leadership to understand goals, workflows, users, constraints, and success measures.
• Translate business needs into technical requirements, scope boundaries, delivery roadmaps, architectural options, measurable outcomes, and implementation plans.
• Own solution architecture for a portfolio of use cases and agentic applications delivered by several squads within a larger delivery organization.
• Produce architecture diagrams, ADRs, technical requirements, nonfunctional requirements, and implementation guidance.
• Manage cross-squad dependencies, technical debt, duplicate capabilities, and opportunities for reusable patterns, templates, connectors, and reference implementations.
• Collaborate with delivery teams to translate architecture into work packages, estimates, quality criteria, and delivery plans.
• Be hands on keyboard to guide and work with the teams and understand solutions to a granular level.
• Apply architecture standards, approval controls, guardrails, and governance requirements throughout delivery.
• Work with leadership to maintain solution architecture across teams for technical direction, engineering standards, capacity, and risk posture.
• Support developer onboarding and architecture education across squads.
• Coordinate decisions and dependencies across product, engineering, security, data, integrations, and business teams.
• Communicate architecture status, risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs to technical and executive audiences.
• Directly manage engineers executing across multiple small, focused product squads.

Job description

AHEAD is seeking an Agentic Solutions Architect to design production-grade agentic solutions on our internal platform across multiple delivery squads. You will understand the problem to solve, shape viable options, and guide squads toward secure, observable, and reusable outcomes while hands-on coding.

You will partner with Product, Tech Leads, security, and business stakeholders to ensure architectures align with platform standards and engineering strategy, delivering scalable, staged solutions