AI Architect | Digital Products & AI
PA Consulting3 hours ago
Charlotte, NC, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own delivery architecture for digital products, AI agents, intelligent workflows, and modernization initiatives from discovery through deployment.
- Design AI production architecture, including tool selection, memory and context management, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop controls.
- Define, build, and guide implementation of agentic-system components such as retrieval pipelines, MCP services, integrations, and enterprise data connections.
- Modernize platforms and applications, including rebuilding legacy capabilities where appropriate.
- Design security and operational resilience through access controls, identity management, deployment guardrails, and oversight of automated actions.
- Break complex engagements into scope, sequencing, implementation approaches, delivery plans, feasibility assessments, and technical risks.
- Create reusable patterns, tooling, platforms, and AI capabilities for future engagements and market offerings.
- Work directly with clients, Product Strategists, AI Engineers, multidisciplinary delivery teams, engineering leaders, and client CTOs.
Requirements
- Experience leading architecture and technical delivery for complex software, cloud, or digital transformation initiatives while continuing to build and operate 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.
- Experience integrating applications with enterprise systems, data platforms, APIs, identity providers, and MCP-enabled services.
- Experience owning solution architecture for complex initiatives, including decomposition, sequencing, and technical decision-making across delivery teams.
- Strong technical judgment, communication skills, and ability to navigate ambiguity while balancing 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.
- Preferred experience in healthcare and life sciences, manufacturing, energy and utilities, transportation, consumer industries, regulated environments, or building reusable platforms and tooling.
Benefits
- Hybrid working requires at least two days per week in the office or on a client site, with assignments potentially requiring up to five days per week on client site.
- Group medical, dental, and vision insurance, Health Savings Account with company match, Teladoc, nurse line resources, and long-term care plan.
- 401(k) savings plan with company profit-sharing contribution.
- 15 paid vacation days with the opportunity to buy five additional days, plus 10 paid holidays and 10 paid sick days.
- Commuter and parking tax-savings benefit.
- Company and voluntary income protection benefits, gym and health incentive reimbursement, pet and legal insurance plans, and Employee Assistance Plan.
- Annual performance-based bonus.
- Inclusive workplace with support for physical, emotional, social, and financial well-being and recruitment-process adjustments or accommodations.
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.