CEI · 1 day ago
AI Architect
Cincinnati, OH
Contract
Hybrid
Senior Level
$85/hr - $90/hrCEI is a trusted technology partner delivering solutions to help customers transform their business. The AI Architect role involves architecting next-generation agentic platforms, providing architectural leadership, and ensuring the scalability and security of AI systems.
ConsultingInformation ServicesInformation Technology
Hiring Manager
Katie Dougherty
Responsibilities
Define and maintain the enterprise reference architecture for agentic platforms, including agentic frameworks, tools, MCP, registries, evals, orchestration, grounding, and observability
Establish architectural standards and best practices for agent design, tool integration, safety, telemetry, versioning, and lifecycle management
Provide architectural leadership for agentic platform engineering teams, ensuring scalability, resiliency, performance, and operability
Design and guide integration with semantic layers, embeddings, vector search, knowledge models, and enterprise data products to enable grounded agent behavior
Drive architectural direction for low-code and no-code agent-building platforms, ensuring governance, consistency, and ease of adoption
Partner with cloud, security, product, and enterprise architecture teams to align agentic platform designs with the client’s AI governance and Responsible AI principles
Define and support agentic SDLC through patterns for evals, safety tests, regression gates, monitoring, and benchmarking
Evaluate new agentic frameworks, open-source standards, and orchestration tools to guide build versus buy platform decisions
Provide hands-on architectural guidance across engineering and data science teams to enable scalable, secure, and cost-efficient agent deployment
Translate complex business needs into clear technical design patterns and platform capabilities that accelerate agent development
Qualification
Required
Experience in cloud and distributed systems architecture focused on scalability, reliability, observability, and performance
Experience designing enterprise AI/ML systems with at least one year of hands-on work with GenAI, agentic workflows, RAG, LLM-based integrations, or multi-agent systems
Strong expertise with agentic frameworks and tooling, including MCP, LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Autogen, CrewAI, Agent SDK, and OpenAI SDK
Hands-on experience in modern software development and engineering practices
Proven experience integrating APIs and enterprise systems into agentic platforms and workflows
Ability to rapidly build AI-driven prototypes, proofs of concept, and demo-ready product experiences
Experience defining and governing enterprise architecture standards, patterns, and reference architectures
Deep understanding of MCP servers, tool calling, registries, eval pipelines, agent observability, and multi-agent orchestration
Hands-on experience with Azure and GCP, including Kubernetes, containerization, identity, networking, CI/CD, and API platforms
Familiarity with AIOps and MLOps stacks such as MLflow, model registries, vector databases, semantic layers, feature stores, and monitoring tools
Strong knowledge of security, compliance, risk, and Responsible AI considerations for enterprise agent systems
Demonstrated ability to partner across engineering, data science, product, and security teams to deliver complex AI platform architectures
Strong leadership skills with the ability to lead teams, coordinate stakeholders, and drive solutions in a senior-level role
Preferred
Experience with Google, Google agent stack, software development, and CI/CD
Experience with creating and architecting next-generation AI solutions focused on innovation
Ability to work in a hybrid environment with onsite presence three days per week
Experience with Google, Google agent stack, software development, and CI/CD
Benefits
Optional medical
Dental
Vision
401(k) match
Company
CEI
In today’s fast-evolving technology landscape, CEI empowers organizations to drive business transformation and IT modernization through innovative, AI-enabled solutions.
Founded in 1992
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Dale Gilardi
Chief Financial Officer
Christine Locklin
Vice President and Partner
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