Senior AI Architect - Enterprise Strategy & Delivery

TEKsystems; Dallas (TX); Remote; USD 191,000 - 286,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

Job summary

TEKsystems is seeking a Principal AI Architect in Dallas to shape technical strategy and lead complex enterprise AI programs leveraging Anthropic/Claude, AWS, Azure, GCP, and Salesforce platforms. This senior role blends executive-level guidance with hands-on design and prototyping across multiple client engagements.

You will mentor architects, drive pre-sales efforts, and partner with Anthropic/OpenAI teams while ensuring security, governance, and measurable business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in enterprise technology, software engineering, cloud, architecture, or professional services, including 5+ years leading architecture for complex enterprise solutions.
• Deep hands-on experience with at least one major cloud or enterprise platform such as AWS, Azure, GCP, or Salesforce, including design and delivery for enterprise clients.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience designing and delivering production generative AI, LLM, and agentic solutions, with demonstrated experience using Claude and/or comparable frontier models.
• Experience architecting and deploying solutions using Claude API, Claude Code, Claude for Enterprise, and Anthropic agent development tooling, together with agent integration standards and patterns such as MCP.
• Strong technical competency in agent and multi-agent orchestration, tool/function calling, memory and state management, RAG, vector and hybrid retrieval, prompt and context engineering, model and agent evaluation, observability, and production AI operations.
• Experience integrating AI and agentic solutions with enterprise applications, APIs, data platforms, identity systems, and business workflows, with a strong understanding of security, governance, reliability, and cost optimization.
• Hands-on experience with Python and one or more additional programming or scripting languages, along with CI/CD and infrastructure as code.
• Demonstrated success leading large, complex programs across multiple teams, including leading architecture review boards and making sound decisions in ambiguous or high-pressure environments.
• Strong executive communication skills, with the ability to explain architecture and AI strategy to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to travel up to 25% to client locations and work effectively across distributed teams and time zones.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end architecture for large, complex AI programs spanning enterprise rollout, custom agent and application development, integration, security, governance, observability, and operations.
• Establish target-state architecture, guardrails, and decision frameworks that align business priorities, engineering constraints, and delivery execution.
• Serve as the escalation point for the most complex architecture, integration, performance, and governance challenges.
• Lead AI discovery and readiness assessments, helping clients identify, qualify, and prioritize use cases based on business value, feasibility, risk, and readiness.
• Lead architecture workshops, prototypes, proofs of concept, and technical evaluations, establishing clear success criteria and a credible path from experimentation to production.
• Join solution calls and lead architecture on customer engagements, moving between initiatives as priorities and customer needs require.
• Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders and present architecture options, tradeoffs, roadmaps, and AI strategy to both technical and non‑technical audiences.

Skills

Executive communication

Cloud architecture

Architecture leadership

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Masters degree in related field

Tools

Claude API/Claude for Enterprise

Anthropic APIs & SDKs

Amazon Bedrock

Google Vertex AI

Microsoft Azure

Job description

TEKsystems is seeking a Principal AI Architect in Dallas to shape technical strategy and lead complex enterprise AI programs leveraging Anthropic/Claude, AWS, Azure, GCP, and Salesforce platforms. This senior role blends executive-level guidance with hands-on design and prototyping across multiple client engagements.

You will mentor architects, drive pre-sales efforts, and partner with Anthropic/OpenAI teams while ensuring security, governance, and measurable business outcomes.