AI Architect – Agentic Systems
Blanc Labs5 months ago
Remote, AmericasStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and deliver production-grade agentic AI systems and scalable enterprise platforms on Azure.
- Architect AI pipelines using Azure OpenAI, vector search, tool-calling patterns, LangChain, and Semantic Kernel.
- Define REST API, JSON schema, event-based, and message-based integration standards.
- Lead the evolution of solutions from MVP to productized platforms through refactoring, hardening, and non-functional requirements.
- Deploy and oversee Azure infrastructure including AKS, App Service, and Azure Functions.
- Define runbooks, SLIs/SLOs, logging, monitoring, tracing, evaluation, and quality assurance practices with DevOps/SRE teams.
- Evaluate emerging agent frameworks and patterns such as MCP and A2A.
- Document architectures and facilitate collaborative design sessions with distributed teams.
- Support platform reuse and versioning across products and contribute to incident management and post-mortems.
Requirements
- At least one end-to-end production AI or agentic system delivered on Azure.
- Deep understanding of Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI Service, vector search, and tool-calling architectures.
- Hands-on experience with LangChain and/or Semantic Kernel and LangSmith or equivalent tooling.
- Experience with productionizing MVPs, refactoring, hardening, and addressing non-functional requirements.
- Hands-on deployment experience with AKS, App Service, Azure Functions, or equivalent Azure services.
- Experience defining runbooks, SLIs/SLOs, logging, monitoring, and production operations with DevOps, SRE, or operations teams.
- Familiarity with MCP and A2A and demonstrated experimentation in real workflows.
- Strong knowledge of REST API design, JSON schema definition, and event/message-based architecture patterns.
- Daily working proficiency with GitHub, GitHub Actions, and Jira; exposure to ServiceNow and ITSM processes.
- Ability to document complex architectures and lead collaborative design sessions using tools such as Visio, Figma, Mural, or Miro.
- Experience operating in multi-program environments with shared, reusable, and versioned platform components.
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About Blanc Labs
Blanc Labs is a Toronto-based technology services firm that designs and implements digital transformation solutions—custom software, systems integration, cloud enablement, automation, and data platforms—for enterprises, especially in financial services. The company operates across the Americas (Toronto, New York, Bogotá, Buenos Aires) and is privately held, founded in 2013. Its business model centers on consulting and delivery of tailored platforms and managed solutions to modernize customer experience and core operations.