Principal AI Architect

The Principal AI Architect serves as a senior individual contributor responsible for defining, designing, and evolving enterprise-grade Generative AI and AI-driven architectures aligned with DIRECTV’s strategic business objectives. This role provides deep technical leadership and architectural authority across GenAI, AI/ML platforms, and enterprise systems, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, reusable, and future-ready.The role partners closely with Application Architects, Data Architects, Platform Engineers, and Product teams to embed Generative AI capabilities into enterprise solutions while maintaining strong architectural governance. The architect defines advanced AI architectures including Model Context Protocol (MCP), multi-agent systems, and agent-to-agent orchestration frameworks to enable autonomous, scalable, and governable AI capabilities across the enterpriseHere’s what you’ll do:Serve as a technical authority for Generative AI and AI-driven architecture across the enterprise, providing hands-on architectural leadership as an individual contributor.Drive GenAI strategy and solution design, identifying, evaluating, and applying emerging technologies such as Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), AI agents, vector databases, prompt engineering frameworks, and model orchestration platforms.Architect and govern Model Context Protocol (MCP) implementations, defining how context, memory, tools, policies, and guardrails are structured, versioned, and securely shared across AI workflows.Design and lead multi-agent and agent-to-agent orchestration architectures, enabling autonomous task decomposition, collaboration, escalation, and decision-making across AI agents and enterprise systems.Define orchestration strategies coordinating LLMs, agents, tools, workflows, and downstream systems, balancing performance, cost, reliability, observability, and maintainability.Partner with business and product stakeholders to translate business problems into AI-driven solutions, articulate technology value propositions, and support business-case development with measurable outcomes.Lead architectural discovery and design workshops, aligning AI capabilities with DIRECTV’s strategic goals and guiding teams toward practical, scalable implementations.Establish reusable AI architecture patterns, reference architectures, and best practices that accelerate adoption while ensuring consistency, governance, and risk management.Ensure architectural flexibility and future-proofing through modular, abstracted designs that support evolving models, vendors, and regulatory requirements.Influence enterprise standards for AI architecture, modeling practices, design principles, security, data governance, and responsible AI usage.Provide architectural guidance to delivery teams, reviewing designs, validating implementation approaches, and ensuring adherence to enterprise and AI-specific standardsJob Contribution: This role delivers expert-level individual technical leadership, shaping DIRECTV’s Generative AI and enterprise architecture strategy through deep hands-on expertise, architectural decision-making, and thought leadership. The Principal AI Architect is accountable for technical direction, architectural quality, and long-term sustainability of AI-enabled solutions across the enterprise.What you’ll need to be successful:Education: Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Applied Science, Electrical Engineering, or Math; or equivalent experience.Technical Career Pathway (TCP) role.5 – 7 years required, 8+ years desired of experience in Enterprise and Solution Architecture roles.Deep expertise in Generative AI and AI/ML architectures, including…