Senior AI-Driven Systems Architect

Alined Consulting Group; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Alined Consulting Group in Chicago seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead design for customer-facing web and mobile experiences, a unified design system, and AI-powered capabilities across products. This high-impact role emphasizes system design, tradeoffs, and technical direction rather than coding line-by-line.

You will plan, decompose, and review work with Product and Design, guiding AI-assisted development, building secure, observable systems on AWS/Azure, and owning end-to-end lifecycle

Qualifications

• Deep server-side experience in modern languages (Java, Python, C#, Kotlin, or Go).
• Strong API and data-model design skills for scalable systems.
• Experience operating production systems in cloud environments (AWS or Azure).
• Familiarity with containers, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Plan and design system architecture, data models, and API contracts.
• Decompose tasks, write specs, and guide AI-assisted development.
• Own testing strategy and ensure verifiable releases.
• Build security, reliability, and observability into systems from the start.
• Lead reviews and maintain strong production judgment across teams.

Skills

Server-side

Java

Python

C#

Kotlin

Go

APIs & data models

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Security

Tools

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Alined Consulting Group in Chicago seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead design for customer-facing web and mobile experiences, a unified design system, and AI-powered capabilities across products. This high-impact role emphasizes system design, tradeoffs, and technical direction rather than coding line-by-line.

You will plan, decompose, and review work with Product and Design, guiding AI-assisted development, building secure, observable systems on AWS/Azure, and owning end-to-end lifecycle