Kforce Inc · 12 hours ago
AI Architect
Cincinnati, OH
Contract
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$70/hr - $80/hr
1+ years expKforce Inc is seeking an AI Architect - Agentic Platforms to define the architectural foundations for the client's enterprise agent ecosystem. This role involves designing and governing architecture for agent-based integrations and providing technical leadership across various teams to ensure the reliability and performance of agent systems.
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Responsibilities
Define and maintain the enterprise reference architecture for agentic platforms (agentic framework, tools, MCP, registries, evals, orchestration, grounding, 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/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 client's AI governance and RAI 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 vs buy platform decisions
Provide hands-on architectural guidance across engineering and data science teams, enabling scalable, secure, and cost-efficient agent deployment
Qualification
Required
Designing enterprise AI/ML systems; 1+ years hands-on with GenAI, agentic workflows, RAG, LLM-based integrations, or multi-agent systems
Experience in cloud and distributed systems architecture focused on scalability, reliability, observability, and performance
Strong expertise with agentic frameworks and tooling (MCP, LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, autogen, crewai, Agent sdk, OpenAI SDK etc)
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/MLOps stacks (MLflow, model registries, vector DBs, semantic layers, feature stores, monitoring)
Strong knowledge of security, compliance, risk, and Responsible AI (RAI) considerations for enterprise agent systems
Demonstrated ability to partner across engineering, data science, product, and security teams to deliver complex AI platform architectures
Benefits
Medical/dental/vision insurance
HSA
FSA
401(k)
Life, disability & ADD insurance
Paid time off
Paid sick leave
Company
Kforce Inc
Kforce is a solutions firm specializing in technology, finance and accounting, and professional staffing services.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknown2024-05-20IPO
2014-06-08Acquired
Leadership Team
Aaron Travis
Digital Experience Delivery Director | Kforce Consulting Solutions
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