Senior AI Systems Architect — Remote Cloud & Platform Lead

Lumen; Boise (ID); On-site; USD 132,000 - 176,000; Full time

Job summary

Lumen is seeking a Senior Lead System Architect to define and lead the architecture behind conversational, generative, and agentic AI solutions that deliver real business impact. You will guide architectural decisions, establish standards, and work across product, engineering, and business teams to drive scalable AI platforms.

This role requires deep Google Cloud AI experience, strong leadership, and a proven track record delivering large-scale AI deployments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or a related technical discipline.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years designing and deploying AI/ML solutions and 3+ years in systems, solution, or enterprise architecture roles.
• Proven success architecting and delivering large-scale AI solutions from concept through production.
• Deep expertise with Google Cloud AI technologies, including Vertex AI, Dialogflow, Agent Builder, Conversational Agents, and related AI services.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, enterprise integration patterns, APIs, event-driven architectures, security, and cloud-native design principles.

Responsibilities

• Define and own end-to-end architecture for conversational, generative, and agentic AI solutions, including data, application, integration, and cloud platform designs.
• Establish architecture standards, reference designs, and governance practices to ensure scalability, security, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Lead technical strategy and platform decisions across Google Cloud AI services and emerging AI technologies, helping shape Lumen's AI roadmap.
• Design and validate innovative AI approaches, including retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG), multi‑agent systems, vector search, and intelligent orchestration frameworks.
• Architect secure integrations with enterprise applications, APIs, data platforms, and business systems to enable seamless AI capabilities.
• Drive operational architecture for AI solutions, including CI/CD, monitoring, observability, model lifecycle management, and reliability engineering.
• Partner with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to align technical solutions with strategic objectives and customer needs.
• Serve as a technical mentor and thought leader, elevating architectural maturity and fostering innovation across teams.
• Champion responsible AI principles by embedding governance, privacy, security, transparency, and ethical practices into solution design.

Skills

AI architecture

Cloud platform design

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Security & governance

Mentoring

Agentic AI familiarity

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering/AI

Tools

Vertex AI

Dialogflow/Agent Builder

Cloud security patterns

Job description

Lumen is seeking a Senior Lead System Architect to define and lead the architecture behind conversational, generative, and agentic AI solutions that deliver real business impact. You will guide architectural decisions, establish standards, and work across product, engineering, and business teams to drive scalable AI platforms.

This role requires deep Google Cloud AI experience, strong leadership, and a proven track record delivering large-scale AI deployments.