AI Platform Architect

C2 Labs [www.c2labs.com] partners with clients on their IT transformation journey via data-driven IT strategic planning, application rationalization and redevelopment, and innovative research and development of new industry standards and technologies. C2 Labs provides specialized products and services that allow our clients to innovate with speed and scale seamlessly while maintaining a robust and effective security posture. C2 has a unique approach to client success enablement that is empowered by ART (Application Rationalization and Transformation) and SCIENCE (Strategic Client Interview and Engineering to assess, design, and implement Cloud Ecosystems) to couple creative new approaches/technologies with proven methodologies that deliver rapid results.

Must Live in the Knoxville, Tennessee metro area.

Position Summary
C2 Labs is seeking a Principal AI Platform Architect to help design and deliver AI-powered solutions that improve operational efficiency, automation, and decision-making across regulated environments that is on site in Knoxville, TN.
This role will lead the architecture and implementation of enterprise AI capabilities, including intelligent automation, knowledge systems, workflow orchestration, and platform integrations, while ensuring scalability, security, and governance.

What You'll Do
Security, Compliance & Governance

Design secure AI architectures for regulated environments

Implement AI governance and model security controls

Support FedRAMP, RMF, CMMC, and government compliance requirements

Develop reusable compliance intelligence and automation frameworks

AI Platform Architecture

Define and evolve enterprise AI platform strategy

Design scalable AI services, agent frameworks, and orchestration patterns

Evaluate and integrate emerging AI technologies

Establish AI governance, security, and architecture standards

Agentic AI & Knowledge Systems

Design multi-agent systems and human-in-the-loop workflows

Build enterprise copilots, digital workers, and AI-driven automation

Architect Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions

Design vector search, semantic retrieval, and knowledge architectures

Integrate structured and unstructured enterprise data sources

Platform Integration & Automation

Design API-first architectures and workflow orchestration strategies

Integrate AI capabilities with

o Microsoft Copilot Studio o Power Platform o ServiceNow o Archer o eMASS o Security and compliance tooling
Required Qualifications
Experience

10+ years of software, platform, or solution architecture experience

3+ years building production AI systems

Experience leading architecture from concept through deployment

Technical Expertise

Agentic AI architectures

RAG and vector databases

LLM orchestration frameworks

Cloud-native architectures

Enterprise SaaS platforms

API integrations and workflow orchestration

OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure AI, AWS Bedrock, or Vertex AI

Preferred

Archer, RegScale, eMASS, Xacta, or similar platforms

Product strategy, enterprise architecture, or AI productization experience

Why Join C2 Labs?
You'll have the opportunity to shape a first-of-its-kind AI-powered compliance platform that combines intelligent agents, enterprise knowledge systems, and automation to transform how organizations achieve and maintain compliance in highly regulated environments.
EEO STATEMENT:
We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or protected veteran status. Employment offers will be contingent on passing a pre-employment drug screen.