[Hiring] Enterprise AI Principal Architect @TEKsystems

Role Description

Our Client is seeking an exceptional Enterprise AI Principal Architect to help define the future of their current cloud platform and drive the organization's transition into AI-native software delivery. This is a strategic architecture leadership role for a proven technology leader who combines deep enterprise architecture experience with practical expertise in modern AI-powered engineering. The ideal candidate is capable of defining vision, influencing executives, establishing architecture standards, mentoring engineering leaders, and driving modernization efforts across a mission-critical public safety platform.

• Define and maintain the multi-year technology roadmaps.
• Establish reference architectures, standards, patterns, and governance practices.
• Drive platform modernization initiatives across applications, infrastructure, integrations, data, and AI.
• Partner with executive leadership to align technology strategy with business objectives.
• Lead architecture reviews across multiple engineering teams.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and determine strategic applicability.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering and architecture experience.
• 7+ years leading enterprise architecture, platform architecture, or principal architecture initiatives.
• Demonstrated success defining architecture strategy for large-scale enterprise platforms.
• Experience leading cloud-native modernization efforts.
• Experience establishing architecture governance and standards across multiple engineering teams.
• Strong background in distributed systems and microservices architecture.

Requirements

• Establish standards for spec-driven development and AI-assisted software delivery.
• Implement governance around LLM usage, agentic workflows, code generation, testing, validation, and security.
• Drive adoption of AI engineering tools such as Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI, Azure AI, and emerging agent platforms.
• Create architecture patterns for AI-powered features.
• Develop frameworks for responsible, secure, and scalable AI implementation.
• Guide migration toward modern cloud-native architectures.
• Improve reliability, resiliency, observability, and operational readiness.
• Define event-driven and service-oriented architecture patterns.
• Partner with engineering teams on scalability and performance initiatives.
• Drive simplification of complex legacy systems and technical debt reduction.
• Experience working directly with executive stakeholders.
• Exceptional communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Proven ability to influence organizational strategy and technology direction.

Benefits

• This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Charlotte, NC.
• The pay range for this position is $73.38 - $92.94/hr.
• Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.
• This is a fully remote position.