Senior AI Solutions Architect — Enterprise GenAI

Johnson Controls; Glendale (AZ); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Paid vacation/holidays/sick time

Comprehensive benefits package

On the job/cross training

Encouraging and collaborative team

Safety with Zero Harm

Job summary

Johnson Controls International is seeking an AI Solution Architect to design and govern enterprise AI solutions across generative AI, agentic AI, ML, RAG, and enterprise search. You will collaborate with AI engineers, data scientists, security, and product teams to deliver secure, scalable AI platforms.

Responsibilities include leading architecture across business domains, defining reference architectures, patterns, and governance, and ensuring production readiness while prioritizing Responsible

Qualifications

• 8+ years in solution architecture, software engineering, cloud architecture or enterprise technology roles.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and solution design for enterprise AI initiatives across business domains.
• Translate business needs into end-to-end solution architectures, roadmaps and non-functional requirements.
• Define reusable reference architectures, integration patterns and clear architecture decisions.
• Design solutions using Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Azure Machine Learning, vector stores and approved enterprise APIs.
• Establish approaches for model selection, evaluation, safety, grounding, cost and operational reliability.
• Align solutions with approved platform capabilities, deployment patterns, networking and operational controls.
• Partner with engineering teams on APIs, data flows, application boundaries, reviews and production readiness.
• Embed security, privacy, accessibility, compliance and Responsible AI requirements from the outset.
• Define identity, RBAC, private networking, secrets, data protection, content safety and auditability patterns.
• Document risks, assumptions, dependencies, mitigations and operational-readiness requirements.
• Facilitate discovery and design workshops that turn ambiguous needs into phased delivery options.
• Explain AI concepts, risks and trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Provide technical leadership through reviews, mentoring and pragmatic architecture decisions.

Skills

AI architecture

Azure AI

Integration

Security

Governance

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline

Tools

Azure AI Foundry

Azure OpenAI

Azure Machine Learning

Cosmos DB

Redis

PostgreSQL/pgvector

Terraform

Kubernetes

Azure API Management

AKS

Job description

Johnson Controls International is seeking an AI Solution Architect to design and govern enterprise AI solutions across generative AI, agentic AI, ML, RAG, and enterprise search. You will collaborate with AI engineers, data scientists, security, and product teams to deliver secure, scalable AI platforms.

Responsibilities include leading architecture across business domains, defining reference architectures, patterns, and governance, and ensuring production readiness while prioritizing Responsible