[Hiring] Principal AI Architect @TEKsystems

Role Description

The Principal AI Architect is a senior leadership role within the AI Shared Services team, accountable for shaping technical strategy, leading complex customer engagements, and serving as a top-level technical authority for clients, sellers, partners, and internal delivery teams. This role architects and governs large-scale enterprise AI adoption and custom agentic solution programs, primarily focused on Anthropic technologies and measurable business outcomes.

This position differs from senior Architect roles in the scale and criticality of engagements and the breadth of cross-functional leadership. Principal Architects move from one strategic initiative to the next, join solution calls, lead architecture on customer engagements, and mentor other architects. This is a hands-on architecture role requiring the ability to move between executive-level strategy, detailed technical design, and hands-on prototyping and technical contribution.

The ideal candidate has deep experience architecting enterprise solutions on a major platform such as AWS, Azure, GCP, or Salesforce, and has applied that depth to production AI. While Anthropic is the primary focus, this role must stay versatile and extend to OpenAI and other technology partners as the teams partnerships grow. This role may require up to 25% travel.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in enterprise technology, software engineering, cloud, architecture, or professional services, including 5+ years leading architecture for complex enterprise solutions.
• Deep hands-on experience with at least one major cloud or enterprise platform such as AWS, Azure, GCP, or Salesforce, including design and delivery for enterprise clients.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience designing and delivering production generative AI, LLM, and agentic solutions, with demonstrated experience using Claude and/or comparable frontier models.
• Experience architecting and deploying solutions using Claude API, Claude Code, Claude for Enterprise, and Anthropic agent development tooling.
• Strong technical competency in agent and multi-agent orchestration, tool/function calling, memory and state management, RAG, vector and hybrid retrieval, prompt and context engineering, model and agent evaluation, observability, and production AI operations.
• Experience integrating AI and agentic solutions with enterprise applications, APIs, data platforms, identity systems, and business workflows.
• Hands-on experience with Python and one or more additional programming or scripting languages, along with CI/CD and infrastructure as code.
• Demonstrated success leading large, complex programs across multiple teams.
• Strong executive communication skills, with the ability to explain architecture and AI strategy to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to travel up to 25% to client locations and work effectively across distributed teams and time zones.

Requirements

• Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 15+ years of experience in information technology and/or professional services.
• Experience with OpenAI technologies, including ChatGPT Enterprise, OpenAI API, Codex, and OpenAI Agents SDK.
• Demonstrated judgment across multiple model families.
• Experience building or scaling teams, delivery capabilities, or strategic offerings.
• Strong command of DevOps, MLOps, or LLMOps, and platform engineering principles.
• Track record of mentoring senior architects and influencing executive stakeholders.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life and AD&D for employee and dependents)
• Short and Long-Term Disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation Benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Company Description

TEKsystems Global Services (TGS) is the growth solution for enterprises today, unleashing growth through technology, strategy, design, execution, and operations with a customer-first mindset. We deliver cloud, data, and customer experience solutions, valuing deep relationships, dedication to serving others, and inclusion.