Principal AI Platform Architect for Enterprise AI & Agentic Systems

Pacific Gas & Electric; Michigan; Hybrid; USD 155,000 - 265,000; Full time

Job summary

Pacific Gas & Electric Company is seeking an AI Platforms Solution Architect (Principal) to lead the architecture and design of PG&E's AI ecosystem from our Oakland headquarters.

This hybrid role involves defining architecture standards, reference patterns, and strategic direction for Agentic AI platforms, AI Foundation services, MCP integrations, AI Gateways, retrieval platforms, and enterprise AI solutions across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, or equivalent.
• 10 years of experience in Solution Architecture, Platform Architecture, Cloud Architecture, Enterprise Architecture or relevant IT experience.
• 7 years of architecture or software development experience.
• 3 years of experience architecting AI, ML, Generative AI, Agentic AI solutions or Cloud.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate or equivalent cloud certification
• Experience architecting cloud-native platforms within AWS and Azure environments.
• Experience designing enterprise integration architectures and API-based platforms.
• Experience leading architecture and design review processes.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working in an agile/scrum environment

Responsibilities

• Define AI platform architecture, standards, reference architectures, and roadmaps.
• Establish enterprise AI foundational architecture and shared services technical strategy.
• Develop reusable architecture patterns for AI applications and services.
• Align AI platform investments with business strategy and enterprise priorities.
• Build prototypes for new Agentic patterns and explore open sourced solutions and frameworks
• Architect multi-agent systems, autonomous workflows, and intelligent orchestration capabilities.
• Establish Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication and Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) design standards.
• Design reusable Agentic AI architecture patterns and implementation frameworks.
• Guide enterprise adoption of Agentic AI solutions
• Establish architecture standards for AI Gateways and enterprise AI traffic management.
• Define MCP architecture and enterprise connectivity patterns.
• Architect secure integrations between AI platforms and enterprise systems.
• Develop reusable AI integration frameworks and reference solutions.
• Architect enterprise RAG, semantic search, vector database, and knowledge graph platforms.
• Define enterprise context management and retrieval architecture patterns.
• Establish reference architectures for enterprise knowledge services.
• Provide architectural leadership for AI-powered knowledge enablement solutions.
• Build evals for RAG and KnowledgeGraph systems and use in production for drift detection
• Work closely with Cybersecurity teams to define AI security guardrails and platform architecture controls.
• Establish AI governance and Responsible AI architecture standards.
• Review solution architectures for security, privacy, compliance, and risk requirements.
• Partner with Cybersecurity and Enterprise Architecture teams to govern enterprise AI platforms.
• Design enterprise AI solutions that embed FinOps principles by default, optimizing model selection, infrastructure utilization, cost transparency, governance, and scalability to maximize business value while controlling operational spend.
• Lead enterprise AI architecture reviews and strategic design sessions.
• Advise business and technology leaders on enabling AI use cases.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and platform capabilities.
• Mentor architects and engineering teams across the organization.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Cloud Architecture

Solution Architecture

AWS/Azure

Executive communication

Agile/Scrum

AI/ML patterns

Security governance

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

AWS

Azure

APIs

Job description

Pacific Gas & Electric Company is seeking an AI Platforms Solution Architect (Principal) to lead the architecture and design of PG&E's AI ecosystem from our Oakland headquarters.

This hybrid role involves defining architecture standards, reference patterns, and strategic direction for Agentic AI platforms, AI Foundation services, MCP integrations, AI Gateways, retrieval platforms, and enterprise AI solutions across the organization.