Practice Architect II – AI/ML

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About the role

  • Practice Architect leading production agentic AI and full-stack platforms for TEKsystems’ business technology services. Directing architecture, coding, and distributed engineering delivery.

Responsibilities

  • Own architecture direction for agentic AI and full-stack solutions across assigned engagements
  • Translate business and technical requirements into scalable, sustainable solution architectures
  • Set architecture standards and design patterns for delivery teams
  • Own code review and architecture review gates and make final technical trade-off decisions
  • Write production code for customer engagements approximately 40–60% of the time
  • Build reusable accelerators, frameworks, and reference architectures across engagements
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and architecture patterns and decide what enters the technology stack
  • Unblock engineering teams on implementation problems
  • Provide technical direction to engineering pods across concurrent engagements
  • Lead offshore technical leads and ensure design intent survives handoff to distributed teams
  • Mentor engineers on architecture, code quality, and modern engineering practices
  • Serve as the senior technical voice to customer architects, engineering leaders, and executives
  • Explain architecture decisions, risks, and trade-offs to technical and non-technical audiences
  • Surface technical risks and dependencies early with mitigation options
  • Drive alignment across customer product, engineering, and business stakeholders
  • Deliver production systems from enterprise data onboarding through operation

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline
  • 10+ years in software engineering and architecture, including 3+ years as a lead or principal architect
  • 2+ years building production AI/agentic systems deployed and operating, not pilots or proofs of concept
  • Experience onboarding enterprise data and building a governed knowledge or semantic layer, including entitlement and lineage
  • Ability to describe the security and identity model for agents acting on enterprise data
  • Currently coding and able to complete a hands-on technical assessment
  • Experience leading offshore or distributed engineering teams
  • Experience defining RACI across customer, onshore, and offshore teams on a live engagement
  • Production delivery on at least two of AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • Customer-facing experience at engineering-leadership and executive level
  • Agentic AI, AI-powered solution design, and modern application architecture
  • Solution architecture and system design
  • Hands-on software development and prototyping
  • AI-assisted coding at scale for production deployment
  • Code reviews, engineering standards, and quality governance
  • RAG and retrieval architecture, vector and hybrid search, embedding pipelines, and retrieval quality tuning
  • Agent security, identity, least-privilege tool access, data-boundary enforcement, and audit
  • Agent execution harnesses, orchestration, failure handling, and human-in-the-loop workflows
  • Evaluation harnesses, regression suites, groundedness and retrieval quality metrics, cost and latency instrumentation
  • Python, TypeScript/Node, strong SQL, agent frameworks such as LangGraph or LlamaIndex, MCP, containers, CI/CD, and IaC

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

SeniorLead

Salary

CA$140,000 - CA$210,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

AWSAzureGoogle Cloud PlatformNode.jsPythonSQLTypeScript

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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