Senior AI Solutions Architect – Enterprise Foundry & Azure

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (AJG); Rolling Meadows (IL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive benefits

Career development

Collaborative culture

Global reach with local impact

Job summary

Gallagher is seeking an AI Solutions Architect to shape the technical form of AI offerings, translating business problems into scalable architectures. You will own reference patterns for RAG, agents, and Copilot extensions, prototype risky ideas in Python and C#/.NET, and collaborate with security, data, and engineering teams to ensure governance and production readiness.

You will present architecture decisions to executives and engineers, define enterprise integrations, and balance pro-code and

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering or solution architecture.
• Experience owning architecture for enterprise cloud solutions.
• Hands-on with Python and C#/.NET in production.
• Strong communication to executives and engineers.

Responsibilities

• Shape technical discovery with business stakeholders and AI analysts.
• Define reference architectures for RAG, agents, and Copilot extensions.
• Record ADRs with reasoning, alternatives, and revisit conditions.
• Incorporate governance, data residency, and security into designs.
• Prototype concepts in Python and C#/.NET before build.
• Lead architecture reviews across concurrent initiatives.
• Design integrations to enterprise systems via API management and messaging.
• Balance pro-code and low-code approaches for scalable solutions.

Skills

Enterprise cloud architecture

LLM/GenAI design

Pro-code / low-code balance

Prototyping in Python / C#/.NET

Azure platform depth

Security & governance

ADR & architecture reviews

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

Microsoft Foundry

Azure OpenAI Service

Azure AI Search

Cosmos DB

Azure Functions

Service Bus

API Management

Key Vault

Entra ID

Snowflake

Azure Policy

Job description

Gallagher is seeking an AI Solutions Architect to shape the technical form of AI offerings, translating business problems into scalable architectures. You will own reference patterns for RAG, agents, and Copilot extensions, prototype risky ideas in Python and C#/.NET, and collaborate with security, data, and engineering teams to ensure governance and production readiness.

You will present architecture decisions to executives and engineers, define enterprise integrations, and balance pro-code and