Remote Principal AI Solutions Architect

Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 215,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan with matching company

Comprehensive Medical, Dental & Vision

Paid parental leave

Paid Time Off and Company Holidays

Early access to earned wages via Daily

Job summary

Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated seeks a Principal Architect to lead AI-enabled product, platform, and engineering capabilities at the highest technical level. This senior IC role requires deep AI architecture expertise, enterprise judgment, and proven delivery experience to influence teams across business units.

You will shape product and platform architectures, uphold enterprise standards, and help engineering adopt modern AI delivery practices responsibly.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering, architecture, or technology leadership experience.
• Significant experience designing and guiding enterprise-grade AI solutions in production environments.
• Deep knowledge of modern AI architecture patterns (LLM-based apps, retrieval, agentic workflows, prompt/tool orchestration).
• Strong architecture background across distributed systems, APIs, integration, data platforms, security, and cloud-native solutions.
• Experience establishing architecture standards, reference architectures, and guardrails across multiple teams.
• Proven ability to influence senior technical and business stakeholders without direct authority.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor messaging to executives.
• Demonstrated ability balancing innovation, speed, risk management, and long-term maintainability.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture for strategic AI initiatives across products, platforms, and shared enterprise capabilities.
• Partner with business units, product leaders, and engineering teams to shape scalable, secure, and practical AI solution architectures.
• Define and evolve architecture standards, reference patterns, and guardrails for AI solutions and AI-enabled software development.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies, platforms, and patterns, and guide organization on adoption.
• Provide architectural leadership for capabilities, agentic workflows, AI orchestration, evaluations, observability, and governance.
• Ensure AI solutions align with security, privacy, compliance, resiliency, observability, and maintainability requirements.
• Help engineering teams leverage AI-powered PDLC capabilities across coding, testing, documentation, analysis, and delivery workflows.
• Guide decisions across application, data, integration, platform, and operations to avoid fragmentation.
• Mentor technical leads and senior engineers and raise the technical bar across the org.
• Participate in architecture reviews, technical strategy discussions, and investment decisions related to AI and platform modernization.

Skills

AI architecture

LLM architectures

distributed systems

security & privacy

enterprise architecture

stakeholder influence

technical leadership

effective communication

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/Engineering

Tools

Cloud-native

Job description

Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated seeks a Principal Architect to lead AI-enabled product, platform, and engineering capabilities at the highest technical level. This senior IC role requires deep AI architecture expertise, enterprise judgment, and proven delivery experience to influence teams across business units.

You will shape product and platform architectures, uphold enterprise standards, and help engineering adopt modern AI delivery practices responsibly.