Senior AI-Driven Enterprise App Architect

Cisco Systems, Inc.; North Carolina; On-site; USD 178,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. in North Carolina seeks a senior software architect to shape the vision of our digital services.

You will design and lead hands-on implementation of next‑generation, intelligent enterprise applications and serve as the architectural anchor for embedding autonomous capabilities into critical workflows. This role focuses on contract‑first API design and schema modeling (OpenAPI, GraphQL, gRPC), connecting business logic, user interfaces, and backend systems to reasoning models

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Bachelors +12 years of experience in back‑end software architecture and core software development using Python, Node, Go, or Java.
• Experience building and shipping complex enterprise or SaaS applications.
• Production experience with LLM‑backed applications: agent orchestration LangGraph, a state‑machine runtime you wrote yourself, structured tool calling, and the failure handling that has to sit underneath both.
• Experience with a contract‑first API design and schema modeling (OpenAPI, TypeSpec, GraphQL, gRPC).

Responsibilities

• Design and lead hands-on implementation of next‑generation intelligent enterprise applications.
• Act as architectural anchor for embedding autonomous capabilities into business workflows.
• Focus on the application layer — contract‑first API design and schema modeling connecting UI, business logic, and backend systems.

Skills

Back-end architecture

Multi-language back-end

LLM-backed apps

Contract-first API

OpenAPI/GraphQL

System design

Cloud architectures

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

OpenAPI

GraphQL

gRPC

TypeSpec

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc. in North Carolina seeks a senior software architect to shape the vision of our digital services.

You will design and lead hands-on implementation of next‑generation, intelligent enterprise applications and serve as the architectural anchor for embedding autonomous capabilities into critical workflows. This role focuses on contract‑first API design and schema modeling (OpenAPI, GraphQL, gRPC), connecting business logic, user interfaces, and backend systems to reasoning models