Senior Agentic AI Architect – Production Systems

Archer; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Archer is seeking a hands-on technical leader to define the architecture for production agentic AI solutions across our software portfolio. You will build critical components, guide engineering teams and establish reusable capabilities for AI-powered products, partnering with Product, Data, QA, Security and Platform teams to deliver reliable solutions with measurable business value.

In this role you will set portfolio architecture, lead through implementation, design dependable workflows and

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering, including 4+ years leading AI and agentic architecture or technical delivery across multiple teams, or equivalent demonstrated expertise.
• Has deployed and operated multiple LLM or agentic applications in production; strong Python, APIs, distributed systems, RAG and agent orchestration skills.
• Experience with cloud deployment, containers, CI/CD, evaluation and observability; able to explain trade-offs and influence technical and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Set portfolio architecture. Define reference architectures, reusable agent services and engineering standards.
• Lead through implementation. Write production code, review designs and pull requests, resolve complex technical issues and coach teams.
• Design dependable workflows. Implement tool calling, orchestration, context and memory, retries, execution limits and human approvals.
• Connect enterprise knowledge. Build Agentic, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), structured data access and API or MCP integrations with permission-aware retrieval.
• Establish AI evaluation. Partner with QA and domain experts on test datasets, task-success measures, groundedness, tool-call accuracy and release criteria.
• Own production readiness. Implement CI/CD, versioning, monitoring, agent tracing, fallbacks and rollback; track reliability and cost.
• Embed security and governance. Apply least-privilege tool access, sensitive-data protection, prompt-injection defenses and auditability.
• Advance AI-enabled development. Govern AI-assisted engineering practices like coding agents, AI code review and test generation.
• Drive portfolio outcomes. Prioritize use cases with Product, maintain the technical roadmap and share reusable components.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Production AI delivery

Cloud & collaboration

Job description

Archer is seeking a hands-on technical leader to define the architecture for production agentic AI solutions across our software portfolio. You will build critical components, guide engineering teams and establish reusable capabilities for AI-powered products, partnering with Product, Data, QA, Security and Platform teams to deliver reliable solutions with measurable business value.

In this role you will set portfolio architecture, lead through implementation, design dependable workflows and