Remote Cloud & AI Architect for Enterprise AI

Eliassen Group; City of Albany (NY); Remote; USD 124,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Cloud / AI Architect to lead enterprise-scale AI and workflow automation initiatives in a fully remote contract role. You will define standards for AI agents, data integration, and orchestration across AWS and GCP, while guiding cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

The position emphasizes hands-on prototyping, production pipelines, and scalable AI platforms within a Fortune 100 telecommunications context. Strong communication and leadership are essential.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in cloud architecture, software engineering, data platforms, or related fields.
• Proven experience delivering enterprise AI/ML solutions in large-scale environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS Agent Core and building Agentic AI pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, and implementation of enterprise-scale Agentic AI solutions and intelligent workflows.
• Build proof-of-concept and production AI pipelines leveraging AWS Agent Core and modern agent-based architectures.
• Design Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) frameworks for scalable knowledge retrieval and AI-driven decisions.

Skills

Communication

Stakeholder management

Architectural leadership

Cloud architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, Data Science

Master's degree in CS/AI/Engineering

Cloud/AI certifications desirable

Tools

AWS Agent Core

Agentic AI frameworks

RAG architectures

Vector search technologies

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Cloud / AI Architect to lead enterprise-scale AI and workflow automation initiatives in a fully remote contract role. You will define standards for AI agents, data integration, and orchestration across AWS and GCP, while guiding cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

The position emphasizes hands-on prototyping, production pipelines, and scalable AI platforms within a Fortune 100 telecommunications context. Strong communication and leadership are essential.