Senior AI Systems Architect

Robots & Pencils; Northern (KY); On-site; USD 166,000 - 228,000; Full time

Job summary

Robots & Pencils seeks a Principal Architect to lead the design and delivery of complex, multi-domain systems across cloud, data, and AI. You will own the hardest architectural challenges, set technical direction, and serve as the senior technical voice on engagements you support.

You'll mentor engineers, drive strategy with leadership and clients, and shape long-term success of systems you build, including migrations and modernization efforts.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with 5+ years in technical leadership.
• Deep expertise in cloud platforms and cloud-native architectures (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Strong background in microservices, serverless, containers, and event-driven systems.

Responsibilities

• Define technical strategy and lead architectural design across cloud, data, and AI/ML systems.
• Architect scalable cloud-native solutions including multi-cloud and hybrid strategies.
• Design data architectures with warehouses, data lakes, and pipelines for batch and streaming workloads.
• Design AI/ML systems including model serving, MLOps, and feature stores.
• Define infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and DevOps standards across engagements.
• Lead cloud migrations and platform modernization initiatives.
• Mentor engineers and act as senior technical voice on strategy.
• Communicate complex technical concepts to stakeholders.

Skills

Cloud platforms

Architecture leadership

Distributed systems

Data architectures

AI/ML systems

Multi-cloud & hybrid

DevOps & CI/CD

Communication with stakeholders

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

Docker

Snowflake/BigQuery

SageMaker/Vertex AI

Job description

Robots & Pencils seeks a Principal Architect to lead the design and delivery of complex, multi-domain systems across cloud, data, and AI. You will own the hardest architectural challenges, set technical direction, and serve as the senior technical voice on engagements you support.

You'll mentor engineers, drive strategy with leadership and clients, and shape long-term success of systems you build, including migrations and modernization efforts.