Principal Architect, AI Solutions

Chicago, IL - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

The Marmon Group LLC

As a part of the global industrial organization Marmon Holdingswhich is backed by Berkshire Hathawayyoull be doing things that matter leading at every level and winning a better way. Were committed to making a positive impact on the world providing you with diverse learning and working opportunities and fostering a culture where everyones empowered to be their best.

For our newly established AI Center of Excellence (COE) Marmon is now seeking a key technical hire: a hybrid leader who functions as a Technical Architect Technical Lead and Delivery Owner. This is a highly visible enterprise-level role responsible for bridging the gap between high-level AI strategy and hands-on technical execution. You will partner with business stakeholders across Marmons diverse portfolio to design build and deploy AI solutions that drive measurable value. This role is ideal for a strategic thinker who is equally comfortable whiteboarding an architecture as they are owning the end-to-end delivery of a production-ready AI agent or application.

What Youll Lead:

AI Strategy & Architecture: Define the technical standards and architectural patterns for AI across the enterprise ensuring solutions are scalable secure and aligned with Marmons decentralized business model.
Solution Design: Translate complex business challenges into technical specifications selecting the appropriate LLMs agentic frameworks and cloud services (Azure AI AWS etc.) to meet specific business unit needs.
Full-Lifecycle Delivery: Own the technical roadmap and delivery for AI initiatives moving projects from initial POC to enterprise-scale deployment.
Stakeholder Engagement: Act as a primary technical advisor to leadership and business unit heads demystifying AI and identifying high-impact opportunities for automation and innovation.

What Youll Do:

Design and implement enterprise-grade AI solutions focusing on agentic workflows RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) and integrated LLM applications.
Lead the technical execution of AI projects managing resources and timelines while maintaining a high bar for code quality and architectural integrity.
Collaborate with IT and Security teams to ensure AI deployments comply with enterprise data governance and infrastructure standards.
Mentor future technical team members and establish best practices for AI development testing and monitoring.
Provide boots on the ground technical leadership during the initial build phase transitioning to a more strategic architectural role as the COE scales.
Stay at the forefront of AI research and toolsets evaluating new technologies for their potential to benefit Marmons businesses.

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What Youll Bring to the Role:

Strategic Mindset: The ability to think beyond a single project and understand how AI fits into the broader Marmon enterprise strategy.
Architectural Depth: Deep experience in cloud-native architecture (Azure AWS or GCP) and a proven track record of designing complex integrated systems.
AI Expertise: Practical experience building with LLMs prompt engineering and agentic frameworks (e.g. LangChain Semantic Kernel or Copilot Studio).
Delivery Excellence: Strong project management and delivery ownership skills; you are someone who gets things done and takes pride in seeing a solution live in production.
Communication Skills: The ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders in a way that builds trust and drives adoption.

Education & Experience

Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related technical field.
15 years of experience in software engineering and architecture with at least 2-3 years focused on AI/ML delivery.
Experience implementing information lifecycle management and levering AI for solving use cases focused in enterprise unstructured content.
Experience in a consulting or multi-business environment is highly preferred as you will be supporting a wide range of autonomous industries.
Proven experience leading technical teams and owning the delivery of high-visibility enterprise initiatives.

Pay Range:

150000.00 - 225000.00

We offer a comprehensive benefits package that may include medical dental vision 401k matching and more!

Following receipt of a conditional offer of employment candidates will be required to complete additional job-related screening processes as permitted or required by applicable law.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to their membership in any protected class. If you require any reasonable accommodation to complete your application or any part of the recruiting process please email your request to and please be sure to include the title and the location of the position for which you are applying.

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The Marmon Group LLCAs a part of the global industrial organization Marmon Holdingswhich is backed by Berkshire Hathawayyoull be doing things that matter leading at every level and winning a better way. Were committed to making a positive impact on the world providing you with diverse learning and w...