[Hiring] Senior AI Architect @ZipStaff

Role Description

ZipStaff is recruiting on behalf of a leading financial services organization for a Senior AI Architect to serve as the top AI/ML technical authority for the finance IT organization. The successful candidate will be engaged on the client’s W2. You will translate a business transformation vision into a coherent AI/ML technical strategy, design the end-to-end architecture that makes that strategy real, and guide engineering teams through detailed design and implementation. This is a highly senior, hands-on architecture role. You will operate at multiple altitudes:

• Shaping multi-year AI/ML roadmaps with business and technology leaders.
• Producing detailed reference architectures and design standards.
• Working directly with engineers to solve hard design problems.

You will be the primary architectural voice for GenAI, machine learning, automation, and agentic systems across finance technology. This is a remote role. U.S. Citizen or Green Card only.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of progressive experience in enterprise architecture, cloud architecture, and distributed systems/platform solutions.
• Proven hands-on experience across major cloud platforms — Azure, GCP, and AWS.
• Deep experience with Kubernetes and container-based platform architecture.
• Strong background in event-driven architectures/frameworks and high-volume, high-throughput data processing systems.
• Demonstrated experience architecting GenAI and Machine Learning solutions in production environments.
• Experience in financial data processing and analytics, ideally within a finance, banking, or FinTech IT organization.
• Track record architecting AI/ML foundational frameworks/platforms used across multiple teams or use cases.
• Strong technical depth in GenAI (LLM application architecture, RAG, Knowledge Graphs, GraphRAG, vector databases), agentic AI, machine learning (forecasting, fraud detection, anomaly detection), automation, and analytics AI.
• Ability to operate credibly at both strategic (executive/business stakeholder) and detailed (engineering) levels.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, mentoring, and technical leadership skills.
• Ability to work fully remote.
• U.S. Citizen or Green Card preferred.

Requirements

• Prior experience within a Finance Technology, Banking, or regulated financial services environment.
• Experience with MLOps/LLMOps tooling and model governance/risk frameworks.
• Relevant cloud or architecture certifications (Azure Solutions Architect, GCP Professional Cloud Architect, AWS Solutions Architect, TOGAF, etc.).
• Hands-on experience designing semantic layers and agentic workflows specifically for complex financial data models.

Benefits

• Health Insurance.
• Dental Insurance.
• Vision Insurance.
• 401(k) + 401(k) matching.
• Paid time off.
• Referral Program.