[Hiring] AI Architect @Derex Technologies Inc

Role Description

We are seeking a visionary and highly experienced AI Architect to lead the design and delivery of next‑generation intelligent solutions across our enterprise. This role is central to our digital transformation strategy and will focus on architecting robust, scalable, and secure AI-driven platforms and capabilities.

As an AI Architect, you will bring deep expertise in:

• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine Learning
• Generative AI
• Coding Assistants
• AI Assistants
• Agile software engineering practices

You will guide the full AI lifecycle from conceptualization and solution design to model development, testing, and successful deployment into production environments. The ideal candidate will have a proven architectural background, hands‑on experience with modern AI platforms, and a strong track record of delivering complex, enterprise‑grade intelligent systems. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional technology and business teams to shape the future of our AI ecosystem and accelerate innovation across the organization.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on programming expertise in at least one modern language such as Python, C#, Java, or JavaScript.
• Deep proficiency with AI/ML frameworks and libraries including TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Keras.
• Advanced understanding of Generative AI architectures, including GANs, VAEs, transformer-based models.
• Practical experience using AI Coding Assistants.
• Hands-on expertise with Agentic AI platforms, including Microsoft Copilot Agents, AutoGPT, CrewAI, Anthropic Claude.
• Strong command of Cloud & MLOps platforms, such as AWS SageMaker, Azure Machine Learning, Google AI Platform.
• Solid experience architecting solutions on major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Proven ability to mentor, guide, and provide architectural direction to junior and mid-level AI/ML engineers.
• Ability to conduct AI/ML and Generative AI code reviews.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Excellent communication skills, capable of translating complex AI concepts for both technical teams and business stakeholders.
• Experience defining enterprise AI architectures, reference models, reusable design patterns.
• Ability to define and implement AI governance frameworks.

Requirements

• Architect, design, and guide the implementation of enterprise grade AI and ML solutions.
• Lead collaboration with data scientists, ML engineers, platform engineers, and software teams.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership in Python.
• Oversee end-to-end data preparation, feature engineering, vectorization, and model development.
• Continuously evaluate emerging advancements in AI, ML, LLMs, Agentic Systems.
• Optimize AI and Generative AI models for performance, latency, scalability, observability, and cost efficiency.
• Conduct and drive technical design reviews, code reviews, and architecture assessments.
• Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve complex AI system issues.
• Design and architect enterprise-wide capabilities leveraging AI coding assistants.
• Lead the development of extensions, plugins, and integrations for IDEs.
• Apply deep understanding of prompt engineering, LLM behaviour, context-window optimization.
• Design, train, and evaluate custom generative models.
• Architect pipelines for data acquisition, cleaning, text chunking, retrieval augmentation.
• Integrate enterprise solutions with AI platforms and APIs.
• Design and maintain the LLM data layer.
• Develop agentic automation solutions using frameworks.
• Apply strong DevOps practices using CI/CD pipelines.
• Contribute to or lead copilot initiatives across domains.
• Design, test, and refine high‑quality prompts.
• Work closely with product, content, and data teams.
• Continuously improve prompt structures.
• Experiment with novel prompting strategies.
• Build and maintain an enterprise prompt library.
• Participate in fine-tuning and reinforcement learning processes.
• Diagnose and refine prompts that yield suboptimal or incorrect results.

Company Description

Derex Technologies Inc specializes in providing IT consulting, staffing solutions and software services. Globally headquartered in Harrison New Jersey since 1996, Derex delivers the highest quality technology professionals and an array of customized IT talent solutions designed to improve productivity and drive results to global clients throughout North America.

With over two decades of unparalleled experience, Derex provides support to its clientele across such industries as:

• Systems Integration
• Banking and Finance
• Telecommunications
• Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences
• Energy
• Healthcare
• Technology
• Transportation
• Local and federal Government agencies