AI Foundation Architect designing secure, scalable enterprise AI foundations for Keyrus, which industrializes AI for business clients. Connecting cloud, data, applications, models, agents, and security.
Responsibilities
Lead architecture discovery with clients to understand business objectives, existing systems, technical constraints, and AI requirements.
Define target architectures for production AI and GenAI solutions, integrating models, agents, cloud services, enterprise data, applications, and APIs.
Own key architecture decisions within the assigned scope, establishing reference patterns, technical boundaries, and design standards.
Design secure and reliable foundations addressing identity, access, scalability, resilience, observability, and operational requirements.
Evaluate architecture trade-offs, including model selection, performance, latency, infrastructure costs, and AI consumption patterns.
Guide AI Engineers, Data Engineers, Software Engineers, and cloud specialists to ensure consistency across technical implementations.
Advise client stakeholders, review technical designs, and document reusable architecture patterns and decisions.
Convert successful architecture decisions into reusable Keyrus assets, including reference architectures, decision records, standards, patterns, and design guidance.
Architect technical foundations connecting cloud infrastructure, data platforms, enterprise applications, models, agents, and security capabilities for scalable AI and agentic solutions.
Requirements
Strong experience, 8 years +, designing and owning complex enterprise, solution, cloud, or data architectures in production environments.
Recent experience architecting production GenAI, LLM, or agentic systems, including integration with enterprise applications and operational infrastructure.
Experience designing distributed systems and enterprise integrations across multiple technical environments.
Ability to evaluate architecture trade-offs involving security, reliability, scalability, performance, maintainability, and cost.
Experience guiding multidisciplinary engineering teams and advising client architects, technical leaders, and business stakeholders.
Deep architecture expertise in at least one major cloud ecosystem, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, including relevant AI services.
Experience designing architecture for model access and deployment patterns across managed AI services, APIs, open-source models, or comparable enterprise AI environments.
Strong understanding of GenAI architectures, including LLMs, RAG, AI agents, model integration, and enterprise AI workflows.
Experience with distributed systems, APIs, microservices, and enterprise integration patterns.
Knowledge of enterprise data architectures, including lakehouse, streaming, data mesh, or feature stores.
Understanding of security architecture, IAM, networking, resilience, observability, and production operations.
Familiarity with MLOps, LLMOps, CI/CD, containers, infrastructure as code, and AI cost optimization.
Nice to have: Experience with Amazon Bedrock, Azure AI, Vertex AI, or comparable cloud AI services.
Nice to have: Experience designing multi-agent systems, model routing, or AI orchestration architectures.
Nice to have: Familiarity with LangGraph, MCP, AI gateways, or similar technologies.
Nice to have: Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, or enterprise infrastructure automation.
Nice to have: Experience with regulated environments, AI governance, or formal architecture review processes.
Nice to have: Consulting or professional services experience across multiple clients.
Strong technical judgment, clear communication, problem-solving, and leadership skills.
Benefits
A stimulating environment where you can challenge yourself and discover new horizons.
A strong culture of innovation and entrepreneurship.
Opportunities to celebrate success through team activities, social events, and special celebrations.
Comprehensive group insurance for you and your family.
RRSP and DPSP participation plans.
Monthly wellness allowance.
Telecommunication reimbursement.
4 weeks of paid vacation.
Language courses (French and English).
Access to continuous learning through certifications, conferences, training programs, and industry events.
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