AI Architect

Hi,Job Title: AI Architect Location: Richmond, VA (Remote) Duration: 12 Months Job Description: Key responsibilitiesDefine and own the solution across GCS Cloud Run GKE Pub Sub AlloyDB Vertex AI Document AI Apigee and Google Storage Transfer ServiceDesign an APIfirst platform with clear contracts OpenAPI versioning and integration patterns for consuming systems Salesforce ERPJDE internal appsSolution for scale partitioning and indexing strategy in AlloyDB for hundreds of millions of metadata rows GCS bucket object layout lifecycle and storage class policies search performance at volumeLead the migration activities buckettobucket file movement and MongoDB AlloyDB metadata migration manifest driven restartable reconciliation first with zero unnecessary data copyingLead the security activities Oktabased auth NauthZ OIDCSAML token flows for UI vs system clients IAM and serviceaccount boundaries CMEKencryption signed URLs data classification audit trails and compliance requirementsOwn the AI enrichment solutioning selecting the right mix of Document AI processors Vertex AI models and custom extractors per document type and defining integration patterns APIs SDKs event driven flows with failure handling and reprocessingDefine the AI cost and performance model batching strategy model tiering by document complexity and costperdocument targets balanced against extraction accuracy and SLAsProduce and review technical artifacts HLDLLD sequence and flow diagrams ADRsProvide technical governance design reviews code reviews and mentoring of lead senior engineersRequired skills experience15 years in software engineering with 5 years in a handson lead roleDeep Google Cloud Platform experience including at least one large scale production systemStrong Java Spring Boot background able to review and write production codeProven experience with largevolume data or content platforms and complex data migrationsStrong relational data modelling and performance tuning PostgreSQLAlloyDB working knowledge of MongoDBEventdriven and asynchronous design Pub Sub API gateway patterns Apigee containerization and Kubernetes GKEEnterprise security and identity experience Okta or equivalentExcellent written and verbal communication comfortable defending design decisions with senior stakeholdersProven experience architecting AIMLenabled applications on cloud Vertex AI Document AI or equivalent model service selection integration patterns and costaware design at volumeNice to havePrior work on document content management ECM or records management platformsSearch technology experience fulltext faceted vector semantic search with embeddingslaC Terraform CICD on Google Cloud Platform cost optimization at scaleGoogle Professional Cloud Architect certification