Programmers.io · 22 hours ago
AI Architect
Cincinnati, OH
Contract
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
10+ years expProgrammers.io is currently looking for an AI Architect to define the architectural foundations that power Kroger’s enterprise agent ecosystem. This role is responsible for designing and governing the architecture for agent-based integrations and provides deep technical leadership across various teams to ensure that agents are built safely and reliably.
Enterprise SoftwareInformation TechnologyManufacturingSoftware
Hiring Manager
Anas Khan
Responsibilities
Designing and governing the architecture for agent-based integrations
Providing deep technical leadership across engineering, product, data science, security, and cloud teams
Ensuring that agents are built safely, consistently, and with enterprise-grade reliability, performance, and observability
Combining expertise in large-scale AI systems, distributed cloud architecture, and modern agentic frameworks
Qualification
Required
10+ years' experience in cloud and distributed systems architecture focused on scalability, reliability, observability, and performance
7+ years designing enterprise AI/ML systems; 1+ years hands-on with GenAI, agentic workflows, RAG, LLM-based integrations, or multi-agent systems
Strong expertise with agentic frameworks and tooling (MCP, LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, autogen, crewai, Agent sdk, OpenAI SDK etc)
Hands-on experience in modern software development and engineering practices
Proven experience integrating APIs and enterprise systems into agentic platforms and workflows
Ability to rapidly build AI-driven prototypes, proofs of concept, and demo-ready product experiences
Hands-on experience with Azure and GCP, including Kubernetes, containerization, identity, networking, CI/CD, and API platforms
Familiarity with AIOps/MLOps stacks (MLflow, model registries, vector DBs, semantic layers, feature stores, monitoring)
Company
Programmers.io
IBM i is evolving. And so are we.
1001-5000 employees
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