AI Architect - Future Opportunity
Atlas Technica18 hours ago
Remote, UkraineSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead technical discovery, architecture workshops, design reviews, and working sessions for financial-services clients.
- Translate business priorities into AI roadmaps, architecture decisions, implementation approaches, and technical requirements.
- Design secure AI applications and agentic workflows across Azure, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Entra ID, Azure AI Foundry, enterprise data platforms, and approved AI models.
- Define identity, permissions, data access, networking, secrets management, logging, auditing, human-review, and least-privilege controls.
- Evaluate technical risks involving models, retrieval, memory, integrations, deployment, security, cost, resilience, maintainability, and production supportability.
- Convert prototypes and proofs of concept into implementation-ready architecture, standards, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.
- Review code, implementation evidence, testing results, deployment plans, and technical documentation to maintain architecture quality.
- Establish reference architectures, engineering standards, technical-review practices, reusable patterns, and mentoring approaches for the Ukraine-based AI Center of Excellence.
- Design and use AI lab and validation environments, including test scenarios, evaluation criteria, evidence requirements, and production-readiness gates.
- Research, test, and validate new AI platforms, agents, connectors, security controls, and architecture patterns before client adoption.
Requirements
- Five or more years of experience across software, cloud, data, security, solution architecture, or related technical disciplines, including significant experience leading complex architecture decisions.
- Hands-on experience designing and delivering production AI, machine learning, data, or agentic systems.
- Strong Microsoft Azure architecture experience covering hosting, identity, networking, storage, databases, logging, security, and deployment patterns.
- Practical experience with Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI or comparable AI platforms, retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, vector or hybrid search, and agent orchestration.
- Experience designing APIs, data integrations, secure connectors, and Model Context Protocol or comparable tool-integration patterns.
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Microsoft Entra ID, role-based access control, Microsoft Graph, and least-privilege access design.
- Working proficiency in Python and the ability to review implementation code, scripts, infrastructure definitions, technical logs, and other engineering outputs.
- Strong experience designing secure systems with environment separation, identity and access controls, secrets management, audit logging, observability, and human-review safeguards.
- Ability to evaluate technical risk, distinguish prototypes from production-ready solutions, and make evidence-based architecture decisions.
- Strong written and spoken English and the ability to lead technical discussions with senior clients and technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
- Experience mentoring engineers, providing technical direction, and delegating implementation work while maintaining architecture quality and delivery accountability.
- Preferred experience includes regulated financial institutions, Microsoft Purview, Defender for Cloud Apps, Microsoft Intune, data-loss prevention, sensitivity labels, compliance-focused logging, Azure Functions, Azure Container Apps, Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB, Snowflake, Docker, GitHub Actions, Infrastructure as Code, technical governance, and relevant professional certifications.
Benefits
- Full-time opportunity based remotely in Kyiv, Ukraine.
- Evergreen talent-pipeline opportunity with no immediate hiring timeline; the position may become active in the future.
- Compensation and applicable benefits will be communicated if and when the opportunity becomes active.
Tech Stack
Categories
AI ApplicationsSolutions Engineering
About Atlas Technica
Atlas Technica provides managed IT and cybersecurity services for hedge funds, private equity, and other alternative investment firms. It delivers outsourced support, cloud infrastructure management, disaster recovery/business continuity, and regulatory/compliance tooling, typically as a managed service provider model. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, it operates as a privately held firm serving financial-sector clients in the U.S. and abroad.