Application Architect Lead

Job description:

We are seeking a hands-on Forward Deployed Engineer to lead and continuously improve our AI-enabled software development lifecycle. This role will embed with application and business teams to establish context engineering and apply AI across the full SDLC.

Responsibilities:

• Define and continuously enhance the organization's AI-enabled SDLC.
• Establish context-engineering standards for existing applications.
• Structure business processes, requirements, source code, architecture, data, integrations, and operational knowledge for effective AI use.
• Embed with application teams to identify opportunities and implement practical AI-assisted solutions.
• Build AI agents, retrieval solutions, engineering workflows, evaluations, and automation.
• Integrate AI with repositories, documentation, testing, work-management, and CI/CD platforms.
• Measure improvements in delivery speed, software quality, testing, and developer experience.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and scale effective practices across teams.

About you:

• Strong enterprise software engineering and production delivery experience (minimum 7 years).
• Hands-on experience with generative AI, agentic AI, retrieval, context engineering, and evaluation.
• Proficiency in Python, C#, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, or a comparable language.
• Experience integrating AI with applications, APIs, repositories, and enterprise data.
• Ability to quickly understand unfamiliar applications and business processes.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to engage non-IT stakeholders.
• Exceptional communicator who can clearly establish and drive adoption of standards.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment where AI technologies evolve rapidly.

Skills

AI, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, SDLC, TypeScript