Senior GenAI Architect, Enterprise Orchestration

DIRECTV; Detroit (MI); Remote; USD 134,000 - 244,000; Full time

Job summary

DIRECTV is seeking a Principal AI Architect to define and evolve enterprise-grade GenAI architectures aligned with strategic business objectives. You will provide deep technical leadership across AI/ML platforms, model orchestration, and governance, partnering with Application and Data Architects, Platform Engineers, and Product teams.

Key responsibilities include designing MCPs, multi-agent orchestration, and scalable, secure architectures; translating business problems into AI-driven

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Applied Science, Electrical Engineering, or Math; or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical authority for Generative AI and AI-driven architecture across the enterprise, providing hands-on architectural leadership as an individual contributor.
• Drive GenAI strategy and solution design, identifying, evaluating, and applying emerging technologies such as Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), AI agents, vector databases, prompt engineering frameworks, and model orchestration platforms.
• Architect and govern Model Context Protocol (MCP) implementations, defining how context, memory, tools, policies, and guardrails are structured, versioned, and securely shared across AI workflows.
• Design and lead multi-agent and agent-to-agent orchestration architectures, enabling autonomous task decomposition, collaboration, escalation, and decision-making across AI agents and enterprise systems.
• Define orchestration strategies coordinating LLMs, agents, tools, workflows, and downstream systems, balancing performance, cost, reliability, observability, and maintainability.
• Partner with business and product stakeholders to translate business problems into AI-driven solutions, articulate technology value propositions, and support business-case development with measurable outcomes.
• Lead architectural discovery and design workshops, aligning AI capabilities with DIRECTV’s strategic goals and guiding teams toward practical, scalable implementations.
• Establish reusable AI architecture patterns, reference architectures, and best practices that accelerate adoption while ensuring consistency, governance, and risk management.
• Ensure architectural flexibility and future-proofing through modular, abstracted designs that support evolving models, vendors, and regulatory requirements.
• Influence enterprise standards for AI architecture, modeling practices, design principles, security, data governance, and responsible AI usage.
• Provide architectural guidance to delivery teams, reviewing designs, validating implementation approaches, and ensuring adherence to enterprise and AI-specific standards
• Job Contribution: This role delivers expert-level individual technical leadership, shaping DIRECTV’s Generative AI and enterprise architecture strategy through deep hands-on expertise, architectural decision-making, and thought leadership.

Skills

Generative AI

AI/ML architectures

LLMs

RAG

Vector databases

Agent orchestration

Multi-agent systems

Model Context Protocol

Security

Governance

Salesforce

MuleSoft

Genesys

Education

BS in Computer Engineering/CS/Applied Science/Electrical Engineering/Math

Tools

Salesforce

MuleSoft

Genesys

Enterprise GenAI platforms

Job description

DIRECTV is seeking a Principal AI Architect to define and evolve enterprise-grade GenAI architectures aligned with strategic business objectives. You will provide deep technical leadership across AI/ML platforms, model orchestration, and governance, partnering with Application and Data Architects, Platform Engineers, and Product teams.

Key responsibilities include designing MCPs, multi-agent orchestration, and scalable, secure architectures; translating business problems into AI-driven