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Duck Creek Technologies · 7 hours ago

Principal Software Architect- GenAI - Remote

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$145K/yr - $234K/yr

7+ years exp

Duck Creek Technologies is the intelligent solutions provider defining the future of the property and casualty insurance industry. The Principal Software Architect - GenAI will lead architecture decisions and drive continuous improvement across software products/services, focusing on incorporating generative AI capabilities throughout the Duck Creek Suite.

FinanceInsuranceInsurTechProperty InsuranceProperty ManagementSoftware

No H1B

Responsibilities

Acts as a Domain Architect for the GenAI domain, leading and representing the design/architecture decisions of that domain area

Provides architectural and technical leadership, participating and leading with Engineering Communities of Practice

Refines technical backlog items and creation of the overall solution concept and architectural direction for multiple engineering teams

Provides guidance and support to the developers in multiple engineering teams across our product suite in the completion of stories against design/architecture plans

Mentor and help develop engineers and architects in their career growth

Drives and coordinates our technical position with key technology vendors

Can be hands-on, designing and coding solutions for Agile stories with key architectural impact

Qualification

Generative AI ExpertiseJavaC#PythonDistributed software patternsMLOps practicesCloud-native architecturesModel lifecycle managementLeadershipCollaboration

Required

Bachelor's or Masters Degree and/or equivalent experience relevant to functional area

7+ years of engineering and/or architecture experience

5+ years supervisory and strategic leadership experience

Generative AI Expertise

Experienced in creating solutions incorporating Generative AI platforms and tooling into production products

Hands-on experience with LLM integration, RAG pipelines, vector databases, prompt engineering, and hallucination mitigation strategies

Familiarity with fine-tuning and model evaluation techniques for large language models

Strong command of object-oriented programming principles with expert knowledge of Java or C#, and Python

Proficiency with relevant frameworks and libraries such as Spring Boot, .NET Core, TensorFlow, PyTorch, LangChain, Hugging Face Transformers, and OpenAI/Anthropic SDKs

Experience in model lifecycle management, including training, deployment, monitoring, and retraining

Skilled in MLOps practices: CI/CD for ML, model versioning, drift detection, and governance

Knowledge of cost optimization strategies for LLMs in production environments

Expert in distributed software patterns (DDD, microservices, serverless, event-driven) and cloud-native architectures (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Experience building monitoring, alerting, and observability for maintaining high SLAs in SaaS products

Proficient in applying data security, compliance, and responsible AI principles across the solution lifecycle

Promote inner-sourced tooling and shared technology standards across teams

Leverage AI tools and practices to enhance engineering productivity, decision-making, and innovation