AI Technical Architect

**About the team:**   At the Capco Technology Delivery Center, we are dedicated to the financial services industries. Our professionals combine innovative thinking with unrivalled industry and domain expertise to offer our clients consulting expertise, complex technology and package integration, transformation delivery, and managed services, to move their organizations forward. Through our collaborative and efficient approach, we help our clients successfully innovate, increase revenue, manage risk and regulatory change, reduce costs, and enhance controls. Our teams stay at the forefront of industry trends and technologies that are driving innovation. From strategy to launch, we are adept at delivering across the full product lifecycle.   **About the Job:**   As a member of the Capco Technology Delivery Team, you'll bring practical knowledge of agile development methodologies and engineering best practices. As an AI Architect, you'll play an integral role using your experience and skills to contribute to the quality and implementation of our projects.  We are seeking a visionary and highly skilled Generative AI Architect to lead the design and implementation of our next-generation AI systems, with a strong focus on foundation models and agentic AI. This role is pivotal in defining the architectural blueprint for enterprise-scale generative AI solutions, ensuring they are robust, scalable, secure, and aligned with our strategic business objectives. The ideal candidate will be a thought leader, capable of translating complex business challenges into innovative AI architectures and guiding cross-functional teams from conceptualization to production deployment. **What** **You'll** **Get to Do:** ** ** **Generative AI Strategy & Architecture:** + Define and evolve the enterprise-wide architectural vision and strategy for Generative AI and agentic systems, aligning with overall business goals and technology roadmaps. + Lead the design of modular, reusable, and scalable architectural patterns for GenAI and agentic applications across various domains. + Design and implement robust, secure solution patterns that can be operationalized across enterprise environments. **Foundation Models Expertise:** + Deep expertise in various foundation models (e.g., LLMs, vision models, multimodal models) including their architectures, strengths, limitations, and fine-tuning techniques. + Evaluate, select, and integrate appropriate foundation models for specific use cases, considering factors like performance, cost, and ethical implications. + Develop strategies for model pre-training, fine-tuning, and continuous improvement. **Agentic AI Systems:** + Architect and implement intelligent agentic AI systems using frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, or similar. + Design complex agentic workflows, including planning, reasoning, tool integration, memory management, and human-in-the-loop interactions. + Lead the integration of agentic AI solutions with existing enterprise systems and define integration standards (e.g., RESTful APIs, microservices). **Prompt Engineering & Orchestration:** + Apply advanced prompt engineering techniques to optimize AI model performance and steer outputs towards desired outcomes, minimizing bias and hallucinations. + Oversee orchestration of AI components and services, including LLM APIs, vector databases, and external tools. + Develop and implement Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) based solutions for enhanced contextual understanding and factual accuracy. **Scalable Infrastructure & MLOps:** + Design and build cloud-native, containerized infrastructure (e.g., Kubernetes, ECS, EKS on AWS, Azure, GCP) for deploying GenAI models and agentic systems at scale. + Implement robust MLOps pipelines for the continuous integration, delivery, deployment, monitoring, and management of AI models in production. + Ensure AI solutions comply with regulatory requirements, data privacy, and ethical AI standards. **Innovation & Thought Leadership:** + Stay abreast of the latest advancements in AI, machine learning, deep learning, and agentic systems, and apply this knowledge to drive innovation. + Rapidly develop Proofs of Concept (PoCs) and iterate solutions using an agile, experimental approach without compromising architectural integrity or long-term scalability. + Serve as a technical expert and mentor to junior AI engineers and architects, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement. + Contribute to internal workshops, knowledge sharing, and external forums as a thought leader. **Collaboration & Communication:** + Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams including product managers, data scientists, software engineers, security, and business stakeholders. + Articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences, both technical and non-technical. + Maintain detailed architectural documentation and operational playbooks. **What** **You'll** **Bring with You:**   + Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related quantitative field. + 10+ years of progressive experience in software architecture, with at least 2-3 years specifically focused on Generative AI and Machine Learning. + Demonstrated expertise in designing and implementing AI architectures with a strong focus on Generative AI and Agentic AI technologies. + Profound understanding of various foundation models (LLMs, vision models, multimodal models) and their underlying architectures (e.g., Transformers). + Hands-on experience with agentic AI frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, or similar. + Strong programming skills in Python is essential, with experience in relevant AI/ML frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch). + Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their AI/ML services (e.g., Amazon SageMaker, Azure Machine Learning, Google Cloud AI Platform, Vertex AI). + Familiarity with MLOps principles and tools for deploying, monitoring, and managing AI models and agentic systems in production (e.g., MLflow, Kubeflow). + Experience with vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS, Azure AI Search) and techniques for processing and ingesting unstructured data. + Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills, with the ability to influence and drive technical decisions. + Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities. + Willingness to work in the Charlotte office 3 days per week. **Why Capco?**   A career at Capco is a chance to help reshape the competitive landscape in financial services. We launch new banks, transform existing ones, and help our clients navigate complex change. As consultants, we work on the front-end business design all the way through to technology implementation.   We are the largest Financial Services focused consultancy in the world, serving everyone from global banks to emerging FinTechs, from strategy through digital transformation, design, business consulting, data and analytics, cyber, cloud, technology architecture, and engineering.   Capco is a young and growing firm. We maintain an entrepreneurial spirit and growth mindset, and have minimal bureaucracy. We have no internal silos that get in the way of your career opportunities or ability to focus on our clients and make a difference to the business.   We offer the opportunity for everyone to learn rapidly, take on tough challenges, and get promoted quickly. We take pride in our creative, collaborative, diverse, and inclusive culture, where everyone can #BYAW.  We offer highly competitive benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan, tuition reimbursement, and a work culture focused on innovation and creation of lasting value for our clients and employees.  **Ready to Take the Next Step?**   If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you. This is an opportunity to make a difference and contribute to a highly successful company with a significant growth trajectory.  LI-MB1 LI-HYBRID Individuals seeking employment at Capco are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation.