Senior Enterprise AI Architect — Scale & Governance

Avalara; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Avalara is seeking a Principal Architect, Enterprise AI to define how AI is architected, governed, scaled, and adopted across the enterprise. This senior, hands-on role combines enterprise architecture with practical AI, LLMs, and automation expertise.

You will establish architecture standards, governance guardrails, and reusable patterns, while evaluating new models and platform capabilities for scalable production use.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in enterprise, platform, or solution architecture.
• Hands-on with AI/LLM technologies and architecting at scale.
• Familiarity with TOGAF or equivalent methodologies.
• Ability to prototype and communicate complex architectures.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise AI architecture standards and governance guardrails.
• Lead architecture decisions across AI, data, cloud, security, and integrations.
• Design resilient, observable AI-enabled workflows at production scale.
• Evaluate emerging AI tools and map them to production patterns.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

AI/LLM technologies

Cloud architecture

Governance and guardrails

TOGAF familiarity

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

n8n

Boomi

MuleSoft

Workato

Job description

Avalara is seeking a Principal Architect, Enterprise AI to define how AI is architected, governed, scaled, and adopted across the enterprise. This senior, hands-on role combines enterprise architecture with practical AI, LLMs, and automation expertise.

You will establish architecture standards, governance guardrails, and reusable patterns, while evaluating new models and platform capabilities for scalable production use.