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Senior AI Automation Architect

Elena Popescu

Full-time · Senior · New_York

About the role

We are a 200-person technology consulting firm specialising in AI transformation engagements for enterprise clients in financial services, insurance, and healthcare operations. Our AI practice has grown from two people to fourteen in three years. That growth has been good for the business and difficult for quality control — we have more client engagements than we have senior technical leaders who can design automation systems at the reliability standard our clients require. We are creating a Senior AI Automation Architect role to close that gap. You will lead the technical design phase of our largest automation engagements: scoping what should be automated, designing the system architecture, selecting the right LLM approach, and establishing evaluation criteria before a single line of production code is written. You will work with mid-level engineers who build what you design, and with client stakeholders who are not technically literate but who will be held accountable if the system fails. Strong opinions, clear writing, and the ability to tell a client honestly when their automation idea won't work — that's the role.

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical design for major client automation engagements from requirements gathering through architecture sign-off
  • Produce written system specifications including data flow diagrams, risk assessments, and evaluation criteria for every engagement
  • Review mid-level engineer implementations for architectural compliance, reliability, and production readiness
  • Run technical due diligence on client automation requests and flag feasibility concerns before commitments are made
  • Contribute to internal IP: reusable automation frameworks, evaluation templates, and LangChain workflow patterns

Requirements

  • 7+ years of software engineering or solutions architecture with 3+ years building LLM-powered automation systems at enterprise scale
  • Deep hands-on experience with LangChain for designing and implementing multi-step agentic workflows
  • OpenAI API and comparable LLM providers — you understand capability boundaries, cost implications, and failure modes in production
  • Python for building, reviewing, and validating automation components
  • Strong systems design capability — you produce clear architecture diagrams, data flow documentation, and written specifications
  • Enterprise stakeholder experience: requirements gathering, risk communication, and governance documentation
  • Background in financial services, insurance, or healthcare operations is genuinely valuable

Benefits

  • Technical leadership of large, complex automation engagements across enterprise clients in multiple industries
  • Full remote with occasional client site visits — typically 2–3 per quarter, US domestic
  • $140,000 – $170,000 base salary + annual performance bonus
  • $3,500 annual learning and conference budget
  • Career track to Principal Architect or Practice Lead within 18–24 months

Job Type

Full-time

Level

Senior

Language

English

Salary Range

$140,000 – $170,000

AI Expertise

Automation & AI Workflows

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