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We instill an environment where employees feel engaged, satisfied and able to contribute their unique skills and talents while living and working as their authentic selves. We provide extensive opportunities for personal and professional development, building both employee competence and organizational capability to fuel exceptional performance through an inclusive environment both now and in the future.\nSummary\nThe Associate Principal, AI Optimization & Delivery - Solution Architecture serves as the technical cornerstone of Vizient’s AI Optimization & Delivery organization. As a principal individual contributor with a greenfield mandate, this role serves as the primary technical design authority for AI Optimization & Delivery.\nThe position partners with AI Optimization & Delivery leadership, Enterprise Architecture, and delivery pods to ensure Vizient’s AI ecosystem integrates cohesively with the enterprise and supports adoption across distributed engineering teams.\nThe immediate focus is to bring architectural clarity to existing pilot initiatives by designing blueprints for an agentic component layer, establishing technical exit criteria for the sandbox-to-production graduation process, and laying the foundation for a managed AI Internal Developer Platform (IDP). Over time, this role will architect an ecosystem that enables Vizient’s engineering teams to deliver AI-powered solutions at scale, accelerate delivery velocity, and prevent architectural debt.\nThis role combines hands-on technical design with systems-level thinking. The ideal candidate can objectively evaluate emerging frameworks, serve as a technical design authority for delivery pods, and translate regulatory and business requirements into secure, scalable platform capabilities.\nResponsibilities\nTechnical Architecture and Standards\nEstablish architectural standards and design patterns for LLM-enabled workflows, agentic systems, and multi-agent orchestration.\nDefine hybrid system patterns that balance LLM-based judgment with deterministic code for high-confidence and compliance-sensitive operations.\nArchitect the initial design and governing standards for the platform component layer, including shared libraries, reusable agent templates, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, vector databases, and hybrid search patterns.\nEstablish contribution models and reusable patterns that engineering squads can adopt, extend, and maintain.\nDefine the AI Bill of Materials (AIBOM) approach, including model provenance tracking, third-party model risk assessment, and version governance.\nEstablish observability standards that support telemetry, reasoning traceability, operational monitoring, and auditability.\nDesign routing architectures that optimize latency and cost, including semantic caching, model fallback strategies, and intelligent workload distribution between small language models (SLMs) and frontier large language models (LLMs).\nPlatform Architecture and Governance\nDefine technical exit criteria and architectural standards for a governed sandbox-to-production graduation process.\nPartner with AI Operations (AIOps) and pilot teams to transition successful initiatives into governed platform environments.\nArchitect and maintain data models for enterprise agent registries and context-management strategies, including memory architecture and resource-connectivity patterns.\nLead technical evaluations of AI technologies, platforms, and protocols, documenting architectural rationale and supporting vendor-agnostic decision-making.\nArchitect data privacy and security boundaries tailored to healthcare data, including protected health information (PHI) and personally identifiable information (PII).\nEnsure RAG, memory, and context-management systems are designed to comply with HIPAA requirements and clinical data-sharing agreements.\nPlatform Evolution and Maturity\nDefine year-one technical milestones for Vizient’s AI maturity model.\nMaintain awareness of emerging AI frameworks, tools, and architectural patterns, translating relevant developments into prioritized platform-evolution recommendations.\nEstablish evaluation methodologies and validation frameworks, including LLM-as-judge calibration, prompt-testing criteria, regression testing, and other evaluation practices for probabilistic systems.\nIntegrate evaluation and validation capabilities into engineering and deployment pipelines.\nPartner with active pilot teams to identify reusable architectural patterns and continuously strengthen the platform component layer.\nDesign rate-limiting, token-throttling, and cross-charge model cost-allocation architectures.\nDeliver instrumentation that enables per-workflow cost visibility, governance, and FinOps reporting.\nLeadership and Delivery Enablement\nServe as the technical design authority for delivery pods and own solution blueprints that align with AI-DLC gates.\nEliminate architectural ambiguity early in the delivery lifecycle to accelerate execution and prevent technical debt.\nPartner with Enterprise Architecture to integrate the AI stack into Vizient’s broader enterprise architecture blueprint.\nRepresent and maintain Vizient’s AI architecture position while coordinating with Enterprise Architecture as an integration partner.\nCollaborate with Engineering and Operations to design deployment automation and embed governance through policy-as-code frameworks and other programmatic controls.\nPartner with Security, Clinical, Data, and Product teams to translate regulatory, operational, and domain requirements into native platform capabilities.\nPresent architecture positions, technical evaluations, and recommendations to AI Optimization & Delivery leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.\nOwn and maintain a library of reference architectures, technical standards, and decision trees that enable distributed engineering teams to build confidently without requiring architectural review for every engagement.\nQualifications\n12 or more years of experience in enterprise software architecture, platform architecture, AI/ML systems, data architecture, or enterprise platform delivery, including experience operating at enterprise scale.\nAt least 2 years of dedicated, hands-on experience delivering LLM orchestration and agentic systems in production, including multi-agent orchestration, context management, and tool connectivity.\nStrong systems-thinking skills, with the ability to evaluate emergent behavior, failure modes, and downstream architectural consequences before solutions are implemented.\nDemonstrated ability to make, communicate, and defend principled architectural decisions.\nExperience designing AI/ML platform infrastructure, including cloud AI platform integration, LLMOps/MLOps tooling, deployment pipelines, observability, and runtime monitoring.\nExperience with LLM evaluation practices, including LLM-as-judge calibration, regression pipelines, prompt testing, and validation of probabilistic systems.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to create architecture decision records, technical standards, reference architectures, and other technical documentation.\nDemonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders across Engineering, Security, Compliance, Data, Product, and business functions.\nExperience working in regulated data environments, including data governance, audit readiness, privacy boundaries, and compliance controls.\nPreferred Experience\nDeep familiarity with healthcare data environments, including HIPAA, PHI handling, and clinical data-sharing constraints.\nExperience building or governing enterprise AI/ML platforms, including agent registries, model-provenance tracking, AIBOM concepts, and AI governance frameworks.\nDemonstrated experience building reusable platform components, such as shared libraries, templates, run patterns, reference architectures, or developer-enablement assets.\nExperience creating platforms and tools that accelerate downstream engineering teams while minimizing unnecessary dependencies.\nDemonstrated ability to earn adoption through product quality, technical credibility, and peer influence, particularly in horizontal platform roles where influence precedes formal authority.\nEstimated Hiring Range:\nAt Vizient, we consider skills, experience, and organizational needs in our compensation approach. Geographic factors may adjust the range estimate and hires typically fall below the top range. Compensation decisions are tailored to individual circumstances. The current salary range for this role is $156,500.00 to $290,100.00.This position is also incentive eligible.\nVizient has a comprehensive benefits plan! 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