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Applied AI Engineer/Architect

West Monroe is seeking an Applied AI Engineer/Architect to lead the design and delivery of enterprise AI solutions that solve complex business challenges. This role serves as the technical AI leader across client engagements and West Monroe assets defining AI architectures guiding implementation teams and helping clients make informed decisions about when to leverage large language models (LLMs) deterministic automation platform-native AI capabilities or traditional software engineering approaches. As a Senior Architect you will provide deep technical expertise contribute to business development efforts and help advance West Monroes AI capabilities through reusable assets thought leadership and mentorship.

What You Will Do

Client Delivery

• Lead the architecture and delivery of enterprise AI solutions including model selection retrieval strategies workflow orchestration evaluation frameworks observability guardrails and human oversight.
• Design and implement AI-enabled applications using LLMs agents retrieval augmented generation (RAG) tool integrations and secure production deployment patterns.
• Define semantic models ontologies business objects metadata strategies permissions and data contracts that enable reliable AI reasoning and enterprise workflows.
• Advise clients on AI strategy technical feasibility data readiness model selection governance responsible AI practices and implementation roadmaps.
• Partner with application data and cloud engineering teams to integrate AI capabilities into production systems APIs data platforms security architectures and operational workflows.
• Establish AI evaluation methodologies using benchmark datasets regression testing red-team scenarios quality metrics and release criteria to ensure reliable and measurable outcomes.
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate analysis synthesize complex information and support data-driven recommendations for clients exercising sound judgment in evaluating outputs.
• Apply AI technologies (e.g. generative AI automation tools data models) to enhance insights improve delivery efficiency and elevate the quality of client outcomes.

Business Development

• Serve as a trusted technical advisor during pursuits helping shape AI strategy solution architecture and delivery approaches for complex client opportunities.
• Support proposals client presentations and executive discussions by articulating AI capabilities tradeoffs risks and business value.
• Build credibility in the marketplace through deep expertise in enterprise AI architecture and emerging technologies.

Practice Development

• Develop reusable AI frameworks accelerators evaluation methodologies and reference architectures that strengthen West Monroes AI offerings.
• Mentor engineers and architects while sharing technical expertise across project teams.
• Stay current on frontier AI models enterprise agent architectures hyperscaler AI platforms governance expectations and secure deployment practices.
• Contribute to thought leadership internal capability building and innovation initiatives that expand West Monroes Applied AI practice.

What You Will Bring

• 7 years of experience in software engineering data engineering machine learning applied AI or technical architecture including recent hands-on AI engineering experience.
• Proven experience building production AI solutions using LLMs AI agents RAG prompt engineering AI evaluation frameworks observability MLOps or machine learning platforms.
• Strong Python development skills and proficiency in at least one additional enterprise technology stack such as TypeScript Java C# or modern data engineering frameworks.
• Experience with one or more leading AI ecosystems including Azure OpenAI AWS Bedrock Google Vertex AI Databricks Snowflake Microsoft Fabric or comparable platforms.
• Strong understanding of cloud architecture APIs identity and access management security data engineering application integration and production deployment practices.
• Knowledge of semantic modeling ontology design knowledge representation data governance and enterprise AI architecture.
• Ability to communicate AI concepts technical tradeoffs and implementation risks effectively to executive stakeholders business leaders architects and engineering teams.
• Experience integrating AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT) into day-to-day workflows to enhance productivity and insight generation coupled with strong critical thinking to assess accuracy mitigate bias and ensure high-quality outputs.
• Ability to travel 25 to 50%.
• A commitment to inclusion and diversity and openness to new ideas and perspectives.
• Ability to work permanently in the United States without sponsorship.

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At West Monroe we work with you.

Were a global business and technology consulting firm passionate about creating measurable value for our clients delivering real-world solutions.

The combination of business and technology is not new but how we bring them together is unique. Were fluent in both. We know that technology alone is not the answer but how we apply it is. We rely on data to constantly adapt and solve new challenges. Actions that work today with outcomes that generate value for years to come.

At West Monroe we zero in on the heart of the opportunity getting to results faster and preparing people for whats next.

Youll feel the difference in how we work. We show up personally. Were right there in the room with you co-creating through the challenges. With West Monroe collaboration isnt a lofty promise but a daily action. We work together with you to turn vision into clear action with lasting impact.

West Monroeis an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer
We believe in treating each employee and applicant for employment fairly and with dignity. We base our employment decisions on merit experience and potential without regard to race color national origin sex sexual orientation gender identity marital status age religion disability veteran status or any other characteristic prohibited by federal state or local law. To learn more about diversity equity and inclusion at West Monroe visit If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in our recruiting process please inquire by sending an email to .

Please review our current policy regarding use of generative artificial intelligence during the application process.

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