Senior AI Platform Architect & Technical Lead

Rrdonnelley; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Williams Lea, an RRD Company, seeks a Technical Lead for AiVA engagements to own architectural patterns, integration approaches, and overall technical quality. You will guide AI Workflow Engineers and coordinate with the platform engineering team to ensure scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions.

This senior role involves setting security-aligned architectures, reviewing builds, and presenting to senior client stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of software engineering, cloud architecture, or enterprise integration experience.
• Track record of leading complex technical architecture on client-facing delivery engagements; comfortable presenting to senior technical audiences.
• Demonstrated experience with AI or automation platforms at enterprise scale; familiarity with agent frameworks, LLM APIs and orchestration patterns.

Responsibilities

• Define the architectural pattern for each engagement: skill decomposition, tool orchestration, data flow, integration approach, deployment model.
• Review and sign off on AI Workflow Engineer builds against the agreed architectural pattern.
• Own integration architecture with client systems: authentication, data ingress, downstream deployment, and monitoring.
• Make platform-versus-custom decisions with the Head of Platform Engineering and Product.
• Design and document the target technical state, transition plan, and operational readiness criteria for handover to sustained delivery.
• Own the technical risk register for the engagement; surface and elevate technical risks early to the Delivery Principal.
• Work across multiple client engagements as the Technical Lead.
• Present technical architecture to senior client stakeholders including CTOs and enterprise architects.
• Specify all integrations and work with the platform development team to deliver integrations, connectivity, and upstream system integration.
• Guide AI Workflow Engineers on architectural choices, prompt strategy, and evaluation design.
• Contribute technical input to commercial conversations; flag technical scope creep and platform-limit risks to the Delivery Principal.

Skills

Architectural pattern

Integration architecture

Security best practices

Cloud architecture

Stakeholder presentation

Mentoring engineers

Cross-geo collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

LLM APIs

Agent frameworks

Monitoring tools

Job description

Williams Lea, an RRD Company, seeks a Technical Lead for AiVA engagements to own architectural patterns, integration approaches, and overall technical quality. You will guide AI Workflow Engineers and coordinate with the platform engineering team to ensure scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions.

This senior role involves setting security-aligned architectures, reviewing builds, and presenting to senior client stakeholders.