Strategic AI Systems Architect

Highmark Health; Trenton (NJ); On-site; USD 118,000 - 197,000; Full time

Job summary

enGen is seeking a visionary AI Architect to serve as the technical cornerstone of our AI strategy. You will define the end‑to‑end architecture for AI solutions, including data pipelines, model storage, inference engines, and front‑end integration, ensuring they are scalable, secure, and well integrated with enterprise infrastructure.

The role requires selecting the tech stack (LLMs, vector databases, orchestration frameworks), establishing MLOps best practices, and leading cross‑functional

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software engineering or data science.
• At least 3 years in an architectural role.
• Experience with enterprise integration and migrating legacy systems to AI-enabled workflows.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic architecture consulting to business customers and enable complex enterprise solutions.
• Design and review large-scale systems, ensuring technology choices meet requirements.
• Define functional and non-functional requirements and drive architectural decisions.
• Mentor engineers and present architecture decisions to senior leadership.

Skills

AI architecture

Distributed systems

Cloud-native

MLOps

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or closely related field

Master's Degree

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

SageMaker

Azure ML

Vertex AI

Kubeflow

MLflow

BentoML

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Job description

enGen is seeking a visionary AI Architect to serve as the technical cornerstone of our AI strategy. You will define the end‑to‑end architecture for AI solutions, including data pipelines, model storage, inference engines, and front‑end integration, ensuring they are scalable, secure, and well integrated with enterprise infrastructure.

The role requires selecting the tech stack (LLMs, vector databases, orchestration frameworks), establishing MLOps best practices, and leading cross‑functional