Enterprise AI Architect

Job Title: Enterprise AI Architect
Location: Columbus, OH – Remote (10% onsite travel, approximately quarterly)
Duration: 6–12 Months Contract
Job Description:
Client are looking for an experienced Enterprise AI Architect to design and deliver enterprise AI solutions using Azure, LLMs, and modern AI architecture.
Required qualifications
10+ years in software or solution architecture, including 5+ years in enterprise integration within large organizations
Current, working code fluency (Python or TypeScript): enough to build prototypes yourself and review pull requests critically
Deep identity and access expertise: Microsoft Entra ID, OAuth 2.0/OIDC, service principals, and identity passthrough or delegated-authorization patterns across system boundaries
SAP landscape integration experience: interface patterns, middleware, authorization concepts
Hands-on design of production LLM systems: retrieval architectures, agentic workflows, tool-use protocols (Model Context Protocol or equivalent), model routing
Azure depth: landing zones, hub-and-spoke networking, private endpoints, Azure AI services
Experience leading security and compliance reviews for regulated enterprise data
A shipping record: systems you designed that ran in production, and the ability to walk through what broke and what you changed
Writing that lands with both executives and engineers: architecture decision records and decision memos
AI assistants in your daily workflow — we work with Claude and Microsoft Copilot, and expect you to design and document with them, not around them
Preferred qualifications
Manufacturing, chemicals, or other regulated/industrial-sector experience
Capability-based or domain-driven enterprise architecture practice
Architecture experience with enterprise integration/automation (iPaaS) platforms
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert or equivalent
Experience operating alongside consulting- or SI-led transformation programs.

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