Remote GenAI Platform Architect — Senior Contractor

KData AI; United States; Remote; CAD 83,000 - 165,000; Part time

Job summary

KData AI is seeking a Principal AI Solution Architect for a remote, senior contractor role. You will lead hands-on architecture across GenAI, RAG, agentic AI and related platforms, delivering scalable reference implementations and end-to-end use cases on a reusable foundation.

Partner with engineering, data and control teams to ensure secure, production-ready solutions in Azure Foundry, Databricks and open-source tech.

Qualifications

• Must own production GenAI, RAG or intelligent automation architectures.
• Proficiency in Python and API development for production-grade code.
• Ability to validate architecture using Azure and Databricks environments and traces.
• Experience in Microsoft AI ecosystem and Foundry implementations.
• Experience delivering end-to-end GenAI platform patterns and use cases.
• Broad depth across application, integration, data, cloud, security and operations.

Responsibilities

• Own target-state and transition-state architectures from discovery to production.
• Design and validate reusable RAG, agentic and document-processing patterns.
• Define platform boundaries for model access, agents, tools, and registries.
• Lead technology decisions across Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI and Databricks.
• Define model/endpoint abstraction, routing, quotas, and provider selection.
• Ensure identity, least-privilege, data isolation and secure integrations.
• Set non-functional expectations for quality, availability, and cost.
• Embed security, privacy and Responsible AI controls throughout.
• Progress PoC to MVP and production across data, environments, and controls.
• Maintain architecture decision records and risk assessments.
• Review platform code and provide actionable feedback.

Skills

GenAI architecture ownership

Python & API development

Azure & Databricks validation

Microsoft AI ecosystem knowledge

End-to-end GenAI delivery

Cross-domain knowledge (app, data, sec

Tools

Azure

Databricks

MLflow

Unity Catalog

Azure OpenAI

Job description

KData AI is seeking a Principal AI Solution Architect for a remote, senior contractor role. You will lead hands-on architecture across GenAI, RAG, agentic AI and related platforms, delivering scalable reference implementations and end-to-end use cases on a reusable foundation.

Partner with engineering, data and control teams to ensure secure, production-ready solutions in Azure Foundry, Databricks and open-source tech.