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Advancing new ideas every day to build even stronger clients, individuals and communities. We’re helping our clients find new ways to drive growth, enhance business performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. And, we’re developing strategies and implementing solutions that enable the transformative change they need to own their future.\nAs a member of the Huron corporate team, you’ll help to evolve our business model to stay ahead of market forces, industry trends and client needs. Our accounting, finance, human resources, IT, legal, marketing and facilities management professionals work collaboratively to support Huron’s collective strategies and enable real transformation to produce sustainable business results.\nJoin our team and create your future.\nRole SummaryThe AI Infrastructure Architect will serve as the technical architect and lead builder for the AI operations platform. This role defines and builds the platform patterns for governed model access, identity, networking, infrastructure as code, usage telemetry, project attribution, sandbox deployment, service mediation, and operational tooling.\nThis is an expert builder/architect role who must be able to design the platform, implement critical components, guide technical decisions, provide day-to-day technical direction to platform engineers, and turn governance requirements into reusable infrastructure patterns. The emphasis is infrastructure and platform engineering, building the foundations that application and solution teams rely on, with hands-on contribution to application-adjacent components where needed.\nReporting / Organization\nThis role sits within AI Operations in Corporate IT, part of the CIO organization, and reports to the Director, AI Operations.\nKey Responsibilities\nServe as hands-on technical lead for AI reference architecture, workload patterns, control-plane boundaries, model access, agent execution, and integration decisions.\nDefine and build approved patterns for Amazon Bedrock, model access, networking, identity, logging, data flow, and production deployment.\nDesign core AI control-plane patterns for registration, policy enforcement, usage tracking, attribution, quotas, audit reporting, and exception handling.\nBuild reusable infrastructure as code, deployment templates, automation, sandbox patterns, MCP or equivalent service mediation, and operational tooling.\nLead implementation of usage telemetry, token reporting, user attribution, project attribution, and cost-management data pipelines.\nProvide technical direction and mentorship to AI infrastructure engineers, including design and code review.\nPartner with security, governance, knowledge, and observability functions to implement controls, knowledge access, evaluation, and audit evidence through automation.\nPartner with the AI Capability Center under the Chief AI Officer to deliver the infrastructure and platform foundations, with targeted prototyping, behind solutions for Huron's go-to-market teams.\nUse AI tools hands-on to accelerate architecture design, infrastructure coding, code review, testing, documentation, troubleshooting, and operational improvement.\nReview and guide priority workload onboarding to ensure use cases follow approved architecture and operating patterns.\nDocument reference architectures, implementation patterns, runbooks, and engineering standards.\nRequired Qualifications\n8+ years of experience designing and building production cloud platforms, AI platforms, developer platforms, data platforms, or distributed systems, including 4+ years with AWS or equivalent cloud infrastructure.\nStrong AWS architecture experience, including identity, networking, logging, observability, infrastructure as code, security boundaries, and production operations.\nStrong hands-on engineering skills in at least one modern programming language and infrastructure automation framework.\nDemonstrated ability to use AI tools as a practical system-building accelerator for platform engineering, automation, code generation, code review, testing, or documentation.\nExperience with APIs, service integration, secure deployment patterns, event-driven systems, or platform automation.\nAbility to design for security, auditability, cost visibility, operational reliability, and reuse.\nExperience translating business, governance, and risk requirements into pragmatic engineering patterns.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with Amazon Bedrock or equivalent enterprise model access platforms.\nExperience with MCP or comparable governed tool/service mediation patterns.\nExperience with durable agentic AI orchestration platforms for platform automation, agent workflows, or long-running AI operations.\nExperience with sandboxed execution, coding agents, secure agent runtimes, or developer workspaces.\nExperience with token/cost telemetry, usage attribution, chargeback, showback, or FinOps data pipelines.\nExperience with regulated or client-confidential workloads.\nExperience mentoring engineers or leading small technical workstreams.\nFlexible living locations across the US. Ability to travel as needed.\nThe estimated base salary for this job is $175,000 - $245,000. The actual salary paid to an individual will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to specific skills or certifications, years of experience, market changes, and required travel. This job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s annual incentive compensation program, which reflects Huron’s pay for performance philosophy. Inclusive of annual incentive compensation opportunity, the total estimated compensation range for this job is $210,000 - $294,000. 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