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Jean-Paul, our enterprise AI agent platform, is live inside Slack, Teams, and email at some of the most demanding IT organizations in the world.\nWe are seeking a high-agency, entrepreneurial Applied AI Architect for a time-bounded fractional contract engagement. Your mandate is to take this new product to market, prove its value in high-stakes production environments, and build the business case for our next phase of scale and investment.\nYou will sit at the tip of the spear - working the room with executive buyers, the terminal with customer engineering teams, and the stage in front of the market as this category is defined in real-time. Approaching the role with a hunter mindset in ambiguity, you will step into unstructured, high-stakes environments and leave with scalable architectures that customer leadership champions.\nThis is a hands-on, high-impact contract role. Regular travel to customer sites (up to 50%) is expected for initial discovery workshops and prototyping sprints where being in the room accelerates trust and progress.\nWhat You'll Do\nLead Executive Engagements: Command the room during discovery and scoping with VP and C-level stakeholders, translating technical capabilities into sharp business impact for CIO/CTO audiences.\n Deploy into Complex Environments: Own the end-to-end technical rollout into customer VPCs, on-prem Docker hosts, and firewalled networks. Resolve the critical blockers (SSO, enterprise OAuth, egress policies) that typically derail pilots.\n Build the Context Layer: Move beyond surface-level demos by engineering data connectivity (via Model Context Protocol / MCP) and context layers, ensuring the AI agent is genuinely usable, reliable, and trustworthy.\nDrive Footprint Expansion: Identify adjacent business functions and high-value use cases, turning initial team beachheads into account expansion and undeniable ROI.\nShape the GTM Narrative: Represent SnapLogic’s agentic AI point of view in briefings and competitive situations, codifying field wins into repeatable playbooks for the GTM team.\nFeed the Product Loop: Partner directly with our core engineering team building on the Claude Agent SDK-bringing field realities, edge cases, and customer needs straight back into the product roadmap.\nWhat We’re Looking For\nFractional & Independent Consulting Appetite: You excel in zero-to-one, time-bounded engagements where success is measured by rapid execution, proving a commercial business case, and leaving behind repeatable frameworks.\nExecutive Commercial Presence: Exceptional poise, clarity, and the ability to confidently navigate live pushback from senior enterprise executives.\nHunter Instinct in Ambiguity: You create momentum without a preset playbook, comfortable taking small, calculated bets to earn buy-in from scratch.\nEnterprise AI Judgment: You easily distinguish valuable business use cases from \"AI theater,\" bringing deep understanding of both technical realities and commercial tradeoffs.\nDeep Technical Range: 5+ years of hands-on experience across Linux, Docker, networking, major clouds, and enterprise SSO/OAuth-with enough depth to earn immediate credibility with a customer's senior engineers.\nProduction-Minded LLM Experience: Hands-on experience building or deploying production systems powered by LLMs or AI agents beyond weekend prototypes.\n Mentorship Instinct: A drive to teach client teams, empower internal champions, and document scalable runbooks so adoption continues long after your engagement ends.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3593,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Data Integration","Business Process Automation (BPA)","Middleware Software"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-24T22:47:16Z"}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":69,"reasons":["conf:1","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-09-25T00:37:01Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":240000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/snaplogic-applied-ai-architect","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/snaplogic-applied-ai-architect.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-25T00:37:01Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":512,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":4488,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-26T00:00:00Z"}}}