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This is a hands-on architecture leadership role focused on evolving ciATHENA from a growing set of AI-enabled capabilities into a scalable, modular, secure and production-grade enterprise AI platform.\n\nWe are specifically looking for a 0->1 product builder who has helped design and build SaaS and/or AI products from an early stage through production. The ideal candidate will have worked in a startup, scale-up, product incubation or similarly entrepreneurial environment where architecture decisions had to be made with incomplete information, evolving requirements, limited resources and a strong bias toward execution.\n\nThe successful candidate is expected to move comfortably between whiteboarding, prototyping, code reviews, debugging and production architecture, and to work directly with engineering teams to implement key architectural changes.\n\nKey Responsibilities:\nOwn the current-state assessment and target-state architecture for ciATHENA.\nDefine architectural principles and reference patterns across agent orchestration, multi-agent workflows, LLM/SLM integration, model abstraction and routing, RAG and enterprise knowledge architectures, memory/state, tool/function calling, human-in-the-loop workflows, AI evaluation, observability, security and governance.\nDrive architecture evolution of key platform capabilities including Agent Registry, Knowledge Spine, orchestration services and AI runtime components.\nEstablish reusable platform patterns so new ciATHENA modules and client implementations do not require custom architecture each time.\nDefine clear service boundaries, APIs, event patterns and integration standards across the platform.\nDesign scalable and resilient patterns for multi-tenancy, session/state management, asynchronous processing, failure recovery, model fallbacks and distributed workloads.\nWork closely with existing Data Engineering and DevOps teams to ensure architecture is production-ready and deployable across CustomerInsights.AI-hosted and customer VPC environments.\nDefine integration patterns with platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, Veeva/Salesforce and enterprise data ecosystems.\nPartner with security and infrastructure teams on RBAC/RLS, SSO, auditability, tenant/data isolation, secrets management and enterprise security controls.\nEstablish architecture standards around LLM independence and model portability, minimizing unnecessary dependency on any single model provider.\nGuide decisions around model selection, model routing, commercial LLMs, open-source models and smaller language models.\nParticipate in architecture reviews and provide technical direction to AI, backend, platform and product engineering teams.\nTranslate product and customer requirements into scalable platform capabilities rather than one-off implementations.\nMentor senior engineers and help raise the architecture and engineering bar across the organization.\n\nMust-Have Experience:\nDemonstrated 0->1 experience building SaaS, AI or data products rather than only maintaining or modernizing mature platforms.\nExperience working in a startup, scale-up, founding/early engineering team, internal incubation group or entrepreneurial product environment with significant ownership over architecture and engineering decisions.\nExperience taking products from concept / prototype -> MVP -> production -> scale.\n8-10 years of software engineering / architecture experience, including ownership of complex cloud-native or distributed systems.\nStrong hands-on engineering background with evidence of personally building, prototyping and troubleshooting production systems.\nAbility to make pragmatic architecture decisions balancing speed to market, scalability, technical debt, security, reliability and cost.\nComfort operating in environments where requirements are evolving and architectural boundaries are still being established.\nExperience creating reusable platform capabilities rather than solving each customer or use case independently.\n\nGenerative AI / Agentic AI Depth:\n\nHands-on experience designing and implementing production systems involving several of the following:\nLLM-based applications and Agentic AI architectures\nMulti-agent systems and workflow orchestration\nTool/function calling, structured outputs and agent planning\nRAG, vector search and enterprise knowledge architectures\nContext engineering, agent memory and state management\nModel gateways, model routing and model fallback patterns\nAI guardrails, observability, tracing and evaluation frameworks\nFrameworks such as LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, LlamaIndex or similar\n\nEngineering & Platform Depth:\nStrong understanding of microservices, APIs, event-driven architecture, distributed systems, state management, caching, resilience, scalability and multi-tenancy.\nStrong cloud architecture experience, preferably Microsoft Azure.\nStrong coding proficiency, preferably Python, with the ability to build and validate production-quality prototypes.\nAbility to conduct architecture, design and code reviews at a Staff / Principal engineering level.\nComfort debugging across application, AI, data and cloud layers.\nExperience evaluating emerging AI technologies through hands-on experimentation rather than relying solely on vendor documentation.\n\nData & Enterprise Integration 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