AI Architect | Digital Products & AI
PA Consulting3 days ago
Charlotte, NC, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Own delivery architecture for digital products, AI agents, intelligent workflows, and modernization initiatives from discovery through deployment.
- Design and implement production AI capabilities including tool selection, memory and context management, guardrails, human-in-the-loop controls, retrieval pipelines, MCP services, and enterprise integrations.
- Build and guide technical components connecting AI capabilities to enterprise data, processes, applications, APIs, identity providers, and data platforms at scale.
- Modernize platforms and applications by rebuilding or redesigning legacy functionality where necessary.
- Design security and operational resilience, including access controls, identity management, deployment guardrails, and oversight of automated actions.
- Decompose complex problems into deliverable components and define scope, sequencing, implementation approaches, delivery plans, feasibility, and technical risk.
- Create reusable patterns, tooling, platforms, and AI capabilities for future engagements and products.
- Work directly with clients, senior technology stakeholders, engineering leaders, and CTOs to shape opportunities and make technical decisions.
Requirements
- Experience leading architecture and technical delivery for complex software, cloud, or digital transformation initiatives while building and operating production software.
- Strong software engineering skills, ideally including Python and TypeScript.
- Experience designing and delivering cloud-native systems on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Hands-on experience building AI applications and agent-based systems in production.
- Experience with orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, or similar technologies.
- Experience building retrieval-enabled systems with technologies such as pgvector, Elasticsearch, or OpenSearch, including understanding of retrieval quality, latency, and cost trade-offs.
- Experience integrating applications with enterprise systems, data platforms, APIs, identity providers, and MCP-enabled services.
- Experience owning solution architecture for complex technology initiatives, including decomposition, sequencing, and technical decision-making across delivery teams.
- Strong technical judgment, communication skills, and ability to navigate ambiguity while balancing delivery speed, quality, security, and maintainability.
- Experience working directly with senior technology stakeholders and discussing solution approaches with engineering leaders and client CTOs.
- Preferred experience in consulting, professional services, or as a technical founder; experience in healthcare and life sciences, manufacturing, energy and utilities, transportation, or consumer industries; and experience building reusable platforms, tooling, or AI solutions in regulated environments.
Benefits
- Hybrid working with a minimum of two days per week in the office or on a client site, with assignments potentially requiring up to five days per week on a client site.
- Group medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus a Health Savings Account with company match.
- Teladoc, informed Nurse line resources, long-term care coverage, income protection benefits, and Employee Assistance Plan.
- 401(k) Savings Plan with company profit-sharing contribution.
- 15 paid vacation days, the opportunity to buy five additional days, 10 paid holidays, and 10 paid sick days.
- Commuter and parking tax-savings benefit.
- Gym and health incentive reimbursement, pet insurance, and legal insurance plans.
- Annual performance-based bonus and support for physical, emotional, social, and financial well-being.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About PA Consulting
PA Consulting is a management and technology consultancy that designs and delivers strategy, digital systems, and physical products for public- and private-sector clients. It works across defense and security, government, health and life sciences, financial services, energy and utilities, consumer, and transport markets. Founded in 1943 and headquartered in London, it operates globally and is majority-owned by Jacobs.