Senior AI Enterprise Architect - AI-Native Solutions

EPAM Systems Inc; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance (

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare

Short-Term and Long-Term Disability

Life and AD&D Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

LinkedIn learning solutions

Matched 401(k)

Paid Time Off

Paid Holidays

Legal Plan and Identity Theft

Accident Insurance

Employee Discounts

Pet Insurance

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Discretionary annual bonus program

Discretionary Long-Term Incentive (LTI

Job summary

EPAM Systems, Inc. is seeking an AI Architect to design AI-native applications for large clients, shaping target architectures, governance, and trade-offs. You’ll lead framing problems and getting owners to decide, not just code.

You’ll collaborate with delivery teams and presales, crafting reference architectures, and mentoring other architects while ensuring alignment with business goals and regulatory constraints.

Qualifications

• Architect AI-native systems in production with RAG, assistants, agents and agentic workflows behind real business processes.
• Proven solution/software architect with production track record and recent initiative in AI-native design.
• Solid experience as a solution/software/enterprise architect with delivery accountability.
• Depth in distributed systems, integration, cloud, and data-flow architecture at enterprise scale.
• Ability to work with ambiguous, conflicting requirements and make explicit trade-offs.
• Experience presenting options, costs, and risks to non-technical decision makers and obtaining decisions.
• Habit of writing architecture decisions, design documents, and reference architectures.
• Recent hands-on coding ability to prototype and validate constraints.
• Understanding of how AI-assisted development changes the architect's role.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end AI-native architectures including orchestration, retrieval, tool/system integration, and guardrails.
• Fit each solution to business scope and justify what is left out and why.
• Turn incoherent requirements into explicit business decisions with ownership assignment.
• Document architectural trade-offs (build vs buy, model selection, retrieval strategy, autonomy level).
• Define evaluation strategy so the system truly aligns with business scope, not just fluent output.
• Write constraints, guidelines, and fitness functions for engineering teams and agents.
• Decide where humans stay in the loop for regulated decisions and data of record.
• Collaborate with EPAM delivery teams and presales; shape proposals and costs for clients.
• Build PoCs and reference implementations when evidence is needed.
• Contribute to EPAM's AI architecture practice with reference architectures and mentoring.

Skills

AI-native systems

Solution architect

Distributed systems

Data-flow architecture

Hands-on coding

Stakeholder communication

Job description

EPAM Systems, Inc. is seeking an AI Architect to design AI-native applications for large clients, shaping target architectures, governance, and trade-offs. You’ll lead framing problems and getting owners to decide, not just code.

You’ll collaborate with delivery teams and presales, crafting reference architectures, and mentoring other architects while ensuring alignment with business goals and regulatory constraints.