Remote AI-Driven Technical Architect

Intone Inc; United States; Remote; USD 124,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Intone Inc. is seeking a Technical Architect for a remote contract position (6+ months) to define and drive architecture across assigned business areas, translating strategy into implementable solutions and delivery-ready features.

You will design systems with AI-enabled capabilities, establish guardrails for safe AI use, and mentor engineers across the architecture discipline while collaborating with product, security, and data teams to align decisions with business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS/IT/Engineering or equivalent practical experience
• 6+ years designing and building web, workflow, service, and backend apps with architecture responsibility
• Experience in API design, service decomposition, integration patterns
• Hands-on with Java, Golang, or Spring
• Experience building rich, responsive APIs and service-based systems
• Deep familiarity with microservices, cloud-native architecture, cloud platforms, distributed applications, streaming patterns, and enterprise integration
• Experience applying AI-assisted development and reusable AI skills
• Familiarity with agents, copilots, code generation, automated testing, and intelligent orchestration of development workflows
• Strong SDLC, Agile, CI/CD, DevOps, observability, and performance
• Ability to translate business needs into architecture requirements and evaluate trade-offs
• Proven ability to lead architecture and software design across a team
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management

Responsibilities

• Define and drive architecture for the assigned business area, translating business strategy, product priorities, and architecture runway into implementable solutions, technical designs, and delivery-ready features
• Design systems that incorporate AI-enabled capabilities where they create clear business value, and establish guardrails for safe, effective use of AI within applications and workflows
• Advance AI-assisted development practices across the team, including use of copilots, code generation, automated testing, intelligent engineering workflows, agents, and reusable AI skills, while maintaining strong standards for correctness, security, and maintainability with clear human accountability
• Establish and reinforce architecture standards, patterns, and design guardrails within the assigned business area. Guide design reviews and major technical decisions across APIs, services, data flows, and platform components
• Partner closely with developers and technical leads to ensure architecture is effectively realized in code. Proactively identify risks, resolve architectural issues, and guide trade-offs across cost, scalability, reliability, security, and delivery speed
• Collaborate with product, engineering, platform, security, data, and other partner teams to align architectural decisions with broader technical direction and business outcomes
• Evaluate emerging technologies, tools, and platforms for applicability to roadmap and delivery needs. Improve engineering effectiveness through modern architecture patterns, automation, observability, and AI-native delivery practices
• Mentor developers and other architects within the assigned organization, strengthening architecture discipline, technical judgment, and confidence with modern engineering and AI-assisted development practices
• Complete all responsibilities as outlined in the annual performance review and/or goal setting
• Complete all special projects and other duties as assigned
• Perform duties with or without reasonable accommodation

Skills

Java

Golang

Spring

API design

Microservices

Cloud-native architecture

CI/CD

DevOps practices

Observability

AI-assisted development

Mentor engineers

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Intone Inc. is seeking a Technical Architect for a remote contract position (6+ months) to define and drive architecture across assigned business areas, translating strategy into implementable solutions and delivery-ready features.

You will design systems with AI-enabled capabilities, establish guardrails for safe AI use, and mentor engineers across the architecture discipline while collaborating with product, security, and data teams to align decisions with business outcomes.