Senior Enterprise AI Architect — Hands-On Leader

Alvarez & Marsal; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 195,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Alvarez & Marsal is seeking an Enterprise AI Solutions Architect to drive end-to-end architecture for AI-enabled enterprise solutions. This senior role blends hands-on coding with architectural leadership across frontend, backend, data, and cloud components on Azure.

You will collaborate with product managers and stakeholders, guiding offshore and internal teams while delivering scalable, secure production systems and AI-driven capabilities.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering, solution architecture, or full-stack development experience, including at least 6 years as a Solution Architect, Enterprise Architect, Technical Architect, or comparable senior technical role.
• Hands-on architect with current technical skills and the ability to spend ~50% designing, coding, prototyping, integrating, and troubleshooting solutions.
• Deep experience designing and deploying enterprise solutions within Microsoft Azure.
• Generative AI and/or Agentic AI technologies and architectures.
• Hands-on experience building AI-powered applications using LLMs, RAG architectures, vector databases, embeddings, AI agents, orchestration frameworks, and modern AI SDKs.
• Design distributed systems, scalable integrations, APIs, event-driven architectures, and multi-team delivery models.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end architecture of enterprise AI and technology solutions across frontend applications, backend services, APIs, data platforms, AI services, integrations, and Azure cloud infrastructure.
• Translate business and product requirements into scalable, secure, maintainable solution architectures and define the technical roadmap required to move solutions from concept through production.
• Develop architecture diagrams, solution designs, integration patterns, data flows, technical specifications, and implementation approaches that provide clear direction to development teams.
• Maintain significant hands-on involvement throughout the development lifecycle, ~50% hands-on—designing, building, prototyping, coding, integrating, and troubleshooting solutions.
• Develop proofs of concept and production components, particularly for complex AI, integration, API, and cloud architecture challenges.
• Work directly with developers on- and off-shore to solve difficult technical problems, review code, validate architectural approaches, and ensure architecture decisions translate into working software.
• Architect and develop enterprise AI solutions using Azure, Generative AI, Agentic AI, LLMs, RAG, vector databases, embeddings, orchestration frameworks, APIs.

Skills

Azure

Generative AI

LLMs

Architectural leadership

Hands-on coding

Security & compliance

Education

10+ years in software/architecture

Tools

Azure DevOps

API design

Vector databases

Job description

Alvarez & Marsal is seeking an Enterprise AI Solutions Architect to drive end-to-end architecture for AI-enabled enterprise solutions. This senior role blends hands-on coding with architectural leadership across frontend, backend, data, and cloud components on Azure.

You will collaborate with product managers and stakeholders, guiding offshore and internal teams while delivering scalable, secure production systems and AI-driven capabilities.