Senior AI & Cloud Enterprise Architect

UPS; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 128,000 - 273,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa sponsorship

Job summary

UPS is seeking a highly skilled Application Architect to lead end-to-end architecture and modernization of enterprise applications, incorporating Generative AI, agentic AI, cloud-native technologies, and enterprise systems. You will design AI-powered solutions with LangGraph, LangChain, GCP, RAG, MCP, and modern observability frameworks.

Role requires 12+ years in architecture, strong leadership, and ability to define scalable patterns across frontend, backend, AI layers, and data services on

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 12+ years of experience designing and delivering enterprise applications.
• Strong experience with distributed systems, APIs, microservices, event-driven architecture, data persistence, state management, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Hands-on experience designing AI-powered solutions using Generative AI, LLMs, agentic AI, RAG, and tool-calling architectures.
• Experience with LangGraph and/or equivalent agent orchestration frameworks, including stateful workflow patterns.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end application architecture across frontend, backend, AI/agent layers, orchestration, integrations, data, and cloud services.
• Define scalable architecture patterns supporting multiple business capabilities and workflows.
• Determine appropriate use of deterministic workflows, APIs, rules, AI agents, and hybrid approaches based on reliability and cost.
• Architect stateful and long-running workflows including session management, checkpoints, retries, idempotency, and recovery patterns.
• Design agentic solutions using LangGraph, LangChain, RAG, APIs, MCP, and orchestration patterns.
• Define secure multi-persona architectures with authentication, authorization, entitlements, and data-access boundaries.
• Architect integrations with enterprise APIs, transactional and legacy systems, SaaS platforms, and data services.
• Define data, semantic retrieval, vector search and knowledge architecture patterns using relational, graph, vector, and search technologies.
• Define non-functional requirements for scalability, availability, performance, resiliency, security, and cost efficiency.
• Design cloud-native architectures on GCP using Vertex AI, GKE, Cloud Run, AlloyDB, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Eventarc.
• Establish architecture patterns for AI observability, distributed tracing, evaluation, monitoring, and Responsible AI.
• Define reference architectures, ADRs, patterns, and guide engineering teams through implementation.
• Evaluate architecture alternatives via prototypes and communicate trade-offs to stakeholders.
• Guide CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, containerization, DevSecOps, and production deployment patterns.

Skills

Architecture

AI & Agentic

Cloud

Data & Knowledge

Security

Observability

Engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Tools

LangGraph

LangChain

GCP

RAG

MCP

OpenTelemetry

Job description

UPS is seeking a highly skilled Application Architect to lead end-to-end architecture and modernization of enterprise applications, incorporating Generative AI, agentic AI, cloud-native technologies, and enterprise systems. You will design AI-powered solutions with LangGraph, LangChain, GCP, RAG, MCP, and modern observability frameworks.

Role requires 12+ years in architecture, strong leadership, and ability to define scalable patterns across frontend, backend, AI layers, and data services on