Principal AI Architect: Enterprise AI Platform Modernization

TEK Systems; United States; On-site; USD 191,000 - 286,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision

401(k) retirement plan

PTO / time off

Competitive compensation

Life insurance

Job summary

TEKsystems seeks a Principal AI Architect to steer enterprise AI strategy and lead high‑impact client engagements across cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP, with a primary focus on Anthropic technologies and OpenAI partnerships. This senior role blends executive vision with hands‑on design and prototyping for production AI.

Up to 25% travel is expected. You will mentor architects, shape solutions, and collaborate with delivery teams to ensure measurable business outcomes, governance,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 10+ years of enterprise technology experience with 5+ years leading architecture for complex enterprise solutions.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience delivering production generative AI, LLM, and agentic solutions using Claude and/or frontier models.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end architecture for large AI programs spanning rollout, custom agent development, integration, security, governance, observability, and operations.
• Establish target-state architecture, guardrails, and decision frameworks aligned to business priorities and delivery constraints.
• Lead AI discovery and readiness assessments, identify and prioritize use cases with business value, feasibility, risk, and readiness.
• Conduct architecture workshops, prototypes, proofs of concept, and evaluations with clear success criteria and production path.
• Join solution calls and lead architecture on customer engagements, balancing priorities and client needs.
• Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders and present architecture options and AI strategy to technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Guide enterprise rollouts of Anthropic models, including adoption strategy, security design, and integration.

Skills

Executive leadership

Enterprise architecture

Client engagement

Strategic planning

Mentoring teams

Public speaking

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Claude API

Anthropic

OpenAI API

AWS

Azure

GCP

Salesforce

Bedrock

Job description

TEKsystems seeks a Principal AI Architect to steer enterprise AI strategy and lead high‑impact client engagements across cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP, with a primary focus on Anthropic technologies and OpenAI partnerships. This senior role blends executive vision with hands‑on design and prototyping for production AI.

Up to 25% travel is expected. You will mentor architects, shape solutions, and collaborate with delivery teams to ensure measurable business outcomes, governance,