Perficient · 6 hours ago
AI Innovation Architect
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$82K/yr - $178K/yr
2+ years expPerficient is a global AI-first consultancy that transforms business results through innovative AI solutions. As an AI Innovation Architect, you will help clients understand and implement AI technologies, guiding them through strategy and integration while ensuring successful adoption and measurable ROI.
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Responsibilities
Architect the Future. Define and drive the AI and platform architecture vision, establishing best practices for building secure, scalable, and high-performance systems on Azure, AWS and GCP
Lead AI Enablement. Design and implement AI/ML capabilities across the platform, including data ingestion, model lifecycle management, and real-time monitoring to deliver actionable insights
Architect and develop automation pipelines and workflows using AI frameworks, tools, and automation platforms such as Appian, Pega, Camunda, and others commonly used in enterprise environments
Evaluate Emerging Technologies. Continuously assess new AI/ML tools and trends to ensure the platform remains innovative and aligned with strategic business goals
Collaborate Across Functions. Act as a key liaison between engineering, product, and business stakeholders, translating business needs into actionable architectural designs and ensuring cohesive execution
Establish Technical Standards. Define and enforce architectural standards, toolsets, and integration frameworks
Optimize Performance and Cost Direct initiatives to monitor and enhance platform performance and cost-efficiency using advanced platform tools, ensuring high availability and scalability
Mentor and Inspire. Guide and support engineering teams, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning within the architecture function
Implementing guardrails, optimizing for costs, and evaluating model performances
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, AI/ML, Data Science, or a related field
Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and support data-informed task execution
A solid understanding of AI capabilities and limitations including ethical considerations is expected
2+ years working with LLMs (e.g., GPT, Claude, Mistral, etc.) in production settings
Experience with prompt engineering, RAG, or agentic AI architectures
Strong understanding of conversational UX and prompt evaluation metrics
Experience with agentic frameworks in practice (LangChain, CrewAI, n8n, Pydantic, etc.)
Ability to self-direct and build full stack prototypes to show thought process and work direction
Experience supporting the presales cycle as an AI SME
Must be open to travel
Preferred
Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent
Knowledge of large-scale automation and workflow management or equivalent
Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers
Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud
Experience with specialization in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, or Natural Language Processing and strong AI/ML focus
Company
Perficient
Perficient is an IT consulting firm that helps companies adapt their systems to third party software products that use internet.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$65.3M2024-05-05Acquired
2024-01-17Post Ipo Equity· $4.44M
2022-10-17Post Ipo Equity· $5.18M
Leadership Team
Ed Hofffman
Senior Vice President, North America Business Operations
Hari Madamalla
Vice President
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