Principal Architect, AI Solutions
Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated3 months ago
Remote, United States or Chicago, IL, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$215k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture for strategic AI initiatives across products, platforms, and shared enterprise capabilities.
- Partner with business units, product leaders, and engineering teams to create scalable, secure, and practical AI solution architectures.
- Define architecture standards, reference patterns, and technical guardrails for AI solutions and AI-enabled software development.
- Evaluate emerging AI technologies, platforms, and patterns and guide organizational adoption.
- Provide architectural leadership for agentic workflows, AI orchestration, evaluations, AI observability, and AI governance.
- Ensure AI solutions meet enterprise requirements for security, privacy, compliance, resiliency, observability, and maintainability.
- Guide architecture decisions across application, data, integration, platform, and operational concerns.
- Mentor technical leads, senior engineers, architects, and architecture communities of practice.
- Participate in architecture reviews, technical strategy discussions, and investment decisions related to AI and platform modernization.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 12 years of experience in software engineering, architecture, or technology leadership roles.
- Significant experience designing and guiding enterprise-grade AI solutions in production environments.
- Deep knowledge of LLM-based applications, retrieval systems, agentic workflows, prompt and tool orchestration, and evaluation approaches.
- Strong architecture experience with distributed systems, APIs, integration, data platforms, security, and cloud-native solutions.
- Experience establishing architecture standards, reference architectures, and technical guardrails across multiple teams.
- Ability to influence senior technical and business stakeholders without direct authority.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills across engineering and executive audiences.
- Ability to balance innovation, speed, risk management, and long-term maintainability.
- Preferred qualifications include large-enterprise platform experience; AI governance, responsible AI, model risk, privacy, and security controls; cloud AI platforms and services; vector search; AI gateways; observability; production AI operations; AI-powered development practices; and mentoring architects or leading architecture communities.
- A master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field is preferred.
Benefits
- Remote position based in Chicago, Illinois.
- 401(k) plan with matching company contributions.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision care.
- Paid parental leave at 100% of salary.
- Paid time off and company holidays.
- Early access to earned wages through Daily Pay.
- Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the candidate is identified.
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About Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated
JLL is a global commercial real estate services and investment management firm serving occupiers and investors. It provides property and facilities management, leasing and tenant representation, capital markets, project and development services, workplace strategy, sustainability, and real estate technology and analytics, with a fee- and commission-based advisory, outsourcing, transaction, and management-fee model. Headquartered in Chicago, it is a public company listed on the NYSE (JLL).