Senior Solutions Architect
Robots and Pencils2 months ago
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary AWS AI architecture partner for strategic clients from discovery through production.
- Design generative AI, agentic AI, RAG, Agentic RAG, and multi-agent architectures using AWS-native services.
- Produce reference architectures, architecture decision records, and implementation roadmaps aligned with business objectives.
- Validate designs through hands-on Python prototyping with Bedrock SDKs, SageMaker, and serverless services.
- Own architectural integrity, security, reliability, performance, cost optimization, governance, and compliance throughout delivery.
- Develop reusable AWS accelerators, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD automation.
- Provide architectural oversight to Forward Deployed Engineers and AWS delivery teams.
- Establish AWS MLOps, lifecycle management, monitoring, observability, responsible AI, and Bedrock Guardrails practices.
- Mentor engineers and guide tradeoffs involving models, latency, cost, privacy, compliance, and operational complexity.
- Partner with product, engineering, research, customer success, clients, and executive stakeholders, including in pre-sales engagements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 7–10+ years of experience in software engineering or cloud architecture with deep AWS ownership.
- Deep expertise in Amazon Bedrock, Bedrock AgentCore, AWS Strands Agents, AgentCore Gateway, and related AWS AI services.
- Strong familiarity with SageMaker training, deployment, pipelines, deep learning fundamentals, and model fine-tuning strategies.
- Experience architecting RAG, multi-agent, and orchestration systems using AWS-native services.
- Strong knowledge of distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and serverless patterns.
- Proficiency with AWS CDK, CloudFormation, and Terraform.
- Hands-on development capability in Python and AWS SDKs.
- Experience implementing observability and monitoring strategies in AWS environments.
- Proven success leading enterprise-scale AWS transformations and communicating with technical and executive audiences.
- AWS Professional Certifications are highly preferred.
- Nice-to-have qualifications include AWS Specialty certifications, advanced agentic reasoning patterns, secure multi-account AWS organizations with Control Tower, data engineering services, and consulting or professional services experience.
Benefits
- The role offers the opportunity to shape enterprise-scale generative and agentic AI platforms, mentor teams, influence the AWS AI practice, and deliver measurable business value.
- The posting describes collaboration across distributed teams and client stakeholders across North America.
About Robots and Pencils
Robots & Pencils is an applied AI engineering firm that designs, builds, and runs production AI systems and agentic co-workers for enterprise operations, with a focus on AWS. The privately held company, founded in 2009 and headquartered in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, provides consulting and implementation services spanning data readiness, cloud modernization, and AI enablement. It is an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner with delivery teams across the U.S., Canada, Eastern Europe, and Latin America.