Tekshapers · 13 hours ago
AI Product Architect
Houston, TX
Contract
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
10+ years expTekshapers is seeking an onsite AI Product Architect to define and evolve the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for AI-enabled digital products. This role involves leading the architectural design for scalable, cloud-native products on AWS, while collaborating with offshore teams to ensure long-term product success.
Software
Hiring Manager
Iyyappa Swamy
Responsibilities
Own the end-to-end product architecture for AI-enabled full stack platforms
Define and evolve the technical roadmap aligned to product strategy and business outcomes
Ensure architectural decisions balance time-to-market, scalability, extensibility, and cost efficiency
Establish reference architectures, design patterns, and technology standards for product teams
Provide architectural leadership for Python-based backend services and API-first product design
Define scalable service interfaces, data models, and integration patterns
Guide frontend architecture using React, ensuring modularity, reusability, and consistent user experience
Remain hands-on for critical components, prototypes, and architectural spikes
Architect AI-enabled product capabilities such as: Intelligent workflows and automation, LLM-powered features and copilots, Context-aware search and recommendations
Define patterns for model integration, inference APIs, prompt orchestration, and RAG-based solutions
Collaborate with data science and ML teams to productionize AI models within the product
Embed responsible AI, security, observability, and governance into the product architecture
Design cloud-native product platforms on AWS using services such as: Compute: EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, Data: RDS, DynamoDB, Aurora, S3, AI/ML: SageMaker, Bedrock, or equivalent services
Define multi-environment architecture supporting development, testing, and production at scale
Drive Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, and platform automation in partnership with DevOps teams
Optimize architecture for performance, reliability, and cost over the product lifecycle
Partner closely with customer to translate product vision into technical capabilities
Provide architectural input during product discovery, roadmap planning, and backlog prioritization
Act as the technical authority for architecture trade-offs and long-term design decisions
Communicate architecture clearly to engineering teams, leadership, and stakeholders
Qualification
Required
10+ years of software engineering experience with significant product architecture ownership
Strong hands-on expertise in Python backend development
API and service-oriented architecture
React frontend architecture exposure
Proven experience designing and scaling product platforms on AWS
Demonstrated experience building AI-enabled or data-driven products in production
Strong understanding of cloud-native and microservices architectures
Product scalability, versioning, and backward compatibility
Security, performance, and observability in long-lived products
Excellent communication and product-centric thinking
Company
Tekshapers
Tekshapers was founded in 2009, an MI, USA based Information Technology Company and our primary objective is to provide sophisticated business solutions to a group of companies worldwide.
501-1000 employees
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