AI Architect
North Chicago, IL - USA
Job Summary
Serve as the principal architect for AI-enabled solutions supporting Finance designing and delivering secure scalable and maintainable systems on AWS. Translate finance business needs into solution architectures that improve the quality speed and efficiency of financial planning reporting forecasting and operations. Apply expertise in generative AI agentic AI machine learning data architecture cloud platforms and software engineering to address significant business problems. Evaluate emerging technologies and integrate them where they provide measurable value while ensuring solutions align with enterprise architecture financial controls data governance security and responsible-AI expectations. Act as a technical leader across Finance and IT guiding architecture decisions and delivery teams from discovery through production and ongoing improvement.
Responsibilities:
- Lead architecture and solution design. Translate Finance requirements into end-to-end architectures for generative and agentic AI machine learning analytics data and software solutions on AWS including integrations with enterprise platforms and existing finance systems.
- Identify and deliver high-value use cases. Partner with Finance stakeholders to assess opportunities such as forecasting planning reporting reconciliation close-process support and document or transaction analysis; define solution scope success measures and implementation approaches.
- Design and implement secure AWS solutions. Select and apply appropriate AWS services and architectural patterns for data ingestion storage processing analytics AI/ML application development and deployment. Address scalability resilience performance cost and operational support.
- Establish data and AI governance. Ensure solutions use trusted well-managed financial data with appropriate lineage quality controls access management retention and auditability. Incorporate human review and escalation where warranted by the use case.
- Apply responsible-AI and model-lifecycle practices. Guide model and generative-AI evaluation validation monitoring explainability versioning and change management in accordance with applicable enterprise standards and risk controls. Identify limitations and risks including inaccurate outputs bias privacy exposure and model drift.
- Protect financial information and controls. Incorporate security privacy segregation of duties and applicable financial reporting and internal-control requirements into solution designs. Work with Finance Security Risk Compliance and other control partners to address requirements and support audits.
- Guide implementation and technical decisions. Evaluate build reuse and purchase options; recommend solutions based on business value technical fit risk and total cost of ownership. Contribute to prototypes or code where needed to validate architecture and resolve key technical challenges.
- Advise stakeholders and delivery teams. Provide technical consultation to Finance and IT leaders product owners engineers data teams and operations partners. Communicate architectural choices dependencies risks and trade-offs clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences.
- Promote reliable operations and continuous improvement. Define production-readiness expectations including testing deployment monitoring incident response documentation and ongoing cost and performance optimization. Incorporate user feedback and operational lessons into solution improvements.
- Provide technical leadership and uphold standards. Work autonomously with minimal direction mentor architects and delivery team members as appropriate and promote adherence to enterprise architecture software-development cloud data security conduct and other applicable corporate policies.
Qualifications :
- Bachelors Degree with 7 years of relevant experience; Masters Degree with 6 years of experience; or PhD with 2 years of experience.
- Respective years of experience in application development solution architecture for AI applications.
- In-depth knowledge of the systems development life cycle solution architecture and the design and delivery of production-grade cloud data and analytics solutions for generative and agentic AI and ML applications.
- Demonstrated experience designing or implementing solutions on AWS including appropriate services and patterns for data management security integration deployment monitoring and cost optimization.
- Strong understanding of generative and agentic AI capabilities limitations and lifecycle practices including evaluation validation monitoring and responsible use.
- Knowledge of data governance privacy access control auditability and financial controls with the ability to incorporate applicable requirements into solution designs.
- Proven track record of delivering creative technology solutions that advance business outcomes with experience evaluating alternatives and balancing value risk feasibility and total cost of ownership.
- Excellent written and oral English communication skills including the ability to explain technical concepts risks and trade-offs to technical and nontechnical audiences.
Additional Information :
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- The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
- We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation holidays sick) medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
- This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs.
Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus commission incentive benefits or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Companys sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Companys sole and absolute discretion consistent with applicable law.
AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity driving innovation transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.
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Employment Type :
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