Senior AI/ML Practice Architect - Lead Distributed Teams

TEKsystems; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 156,000 - 234,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Life Insurance

Disability insurance

Transportation benefits

Annual bonuses / profit sharing

Job summary

TEKsystems is seeking a Practice Architect II (AI/ML) to lead architectural direction and delivery for AI-powered platforms. This senior role drives design standards, mentors distributed teams, and writes production code while coordinating onshore and offshore engineers across engagements.

The position is Atlanta-based with remote work options and a strong emphasis on customer-facing leadership. Responsibilities include setting architectural strategy, enabling reusable accelerators, evaluating

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• (10)+ years in software engineering and architecture, including (3)+ years as a lead or principal architect
• (2)+ years building production AI/agentic systems deployed and operating, not pilots or proofs of concept
• Has onboarded enterprise data and built a governed knowledge or semantic layer, including entitlement and lineage
• Can describe the security and identity model for agents acting on enterprise data
• Currently coding; able to complete a hands-on technical assessment
• Experience leading offshore or distributed engineering teams
• Has defined RACI across customer, onshore, and offshore teams on a live engagement
• Cloud-agnostic: production delivery on at least (two) of AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Customer-facing experience at engineering-leadership and executive level

Responsibilities

• Own architecture direction for agentic AI and full-stack solutions across assigned engagements
• Translate business and technical requirements into scalable, sustainable solution architectures
• Set the architecture standards and design patterns delivery teams build against
• Own code review and architecture review gates; make the final call on technical trade-offs
• Write production code for customer engagements 40–60% of time
• Build and own reusable accelerators, frameworks, and reference architectures across engagements
• Evaluate emerging technologies and architecture patterns, and decide what enters the stack
• Unblock engineering teams on implementation problems
• Provide technical direction to engineering pods of engineers across concurrent engagements
• Lead offshore technical leads; ensure design intent survives handoff to distributed teams
• Mentor engineers on architecture, code quality, and modern engineering practice
• Serve as the senior technical voice to customer architects, engineering leaders, and executives
• Explain architecture decisions, risks, and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Surface technical risks and dependencies early, with mitigation options
• Drive alignment across customer product, engineering, and business stakeholders

Skills

Agentic AI

AI architecture

Solution design

Hands-on development

Code reviews

Cloud-agnostic

SQL

TypeScript/Node

CI/CD

IaC

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IT

Tools

Python

TypeScript/Node

SQL

LangGraph

LlamaIndex

MCP

Containers

CI/CD

IaC

Job description

TEKsystems is seeking a Practice Architect II (AI/ML) to lead architectural direction and delivery for AI-powered platforms. This senior role drives design standards, mentors distributed teams, and writes production code while coordinating onshore and offshore engineers across engagements.

The position is Atlanta-based with remote work options and a strong emphasis on customer-facing leadership. Responsibilities include setting architectural strategy, enabling reusable accelerators, evaluating