Senior AI Agent Architect & Tech Lead

EPAM Systems Inc; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

EPAM Systems Inc. seeks a hands-on technical leader to design and deliver production AI agent solutions. You will guide engineers, define requirements, and ensure technical quality and operational readiness across the team’s work.

Lead across memory, tool integration, observability, and security boundaries, with experience in Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry, and Vertex AI. English proficiency and strong architecture skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years delivering and operating production software, including at least 1 year shipping LLM-based agents to production.
• Proven track record of technical leadership and team delivery.
• Strong programming skills in at least one general-purpose language with practical agent development experience.
• Experience with cloud managed services for AI hosting (Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry, Vertex AI).
• English proficiency at B2 level or higher.

Responsibilities

• Lead solution design across agent execution, memory, identity, tool integration, and observability.
• Turn customer needs into clear requirements and explain business and technical trade-offs.
• Guide the team's use of cloud managed services for AI hosting (Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry, Vertex AI).
• Establish implementation patterns and validate platform choices against reliability, security, cost, and operational requirements.
• Design and guide the implementation of an LLM gateway & routing layer with model tiering and observability.
• Define release criteria and ensure the team can demonstrate they are met.
• Guide production readiness and incident response, including observability and cost controls.
• Plan and prioritize technical delivery with product, security, and engineering stakeholders.

Skills

Technical leadership

LLM agent development

Cloud services

Architecture design

Team delivery

Production software

Tools

Bedrock

Azure AI Foundry

Vertex AI

CI/CD tooling

Job description

EPAM Systems Inc. seeks a hands-on technical leader to design and deliver production AI agent solutions. You will guide engineers, define requirements, and ensure technical quality and operational readiness across the team’s work.

Lead across memory, tool integration, observability, and security boundaries, with experience in Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry, and Vertex AI. English proficiency and strong architecture skills are essential.