Enterprise Architect Hybrid

Genesis10 is currently seeking an Enterprise Architect for a hybrid position (3 days onsite per week required) with a Global Financial Institution located in Plano TX. This is a 12 month contract opportunity.

This role serves as a senior AI architecture leader responsible for defining enterprise patterns standards and decision frameworks that guide the adoption of AI across Global Technology. The position provides architectural leadership spanning AI platforms agentic systems retrieval architectures model integration workflow automation and enterprise AI governance. Working closely with CIO architecture teams platform engineering security and risk partners this role helps translate rapidly evolving AI capabilities into practical scalable and governed enterprise solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Define enterprise AI architecture strategy patterns and reference architectures
• Establish decision frameworks for AI platform selection solution design and deployment approaches
• Develop governance models standards and guardrails for AI and agentic solutions
• Drive consistency and reuse through enterprise AI patterns templates and guidance artifacts
• Align AI architecture with enterprise security risk compliance and control requirements
• Define architecture patterns for enterprise AI agents multi-agent systems and workflow automation
• Establish guidance for agent orchestration planning memory tool invocation and human oversight
• Drive standards for deterministic probabilistic and hybrid automation models
• Define integration patterns for agent-to-agent communication tool usage and enterprise workflows
• Guide adoption of emerging AI interoperability standards and architectures
• Develop decision guidance for model selection orchestration approaches and AI solution architectures
• Partner with platform teams to align enterprise AI capabilities with business and technology needs
• Define patterns for RAG vector databases semantic retrieval and enterprise knowledge architectures
• Guide architecture decisions for AI-ready data access grounding and contextual retrieval
• Guide architecture decisions involving AI Gateway API Gateway and MCP Gateway capabilities
• Embed security through architecture patterns covering identity access data protection and policy enforcement
• Translate complex AI concepts into clear actionable guidance for technical and business audiences
• Communicate effectively with senior stakeholders on business value risk operating models and technology choices
• Act as a senior AI architecture leader driving alignment across multiple organizations and initiatives
• Promote responsible AI adoption through practical governance and architectural guardrails

Requirements:

• 15 years in enterprise architecture solution architecture software engineering or distributed systems design
• 8 years of experience architecting AI/ML NLP or advanced analytics solutions
• 2 years of experience designing enterprise GenAI RAG and agentic AI solutions
• Strong knowledge of AI/ML concepts including LLMs RAG embeddings vector databases evaluation frameworks and agent-based architectures
• Experience with enterprise AI platforms such as Microsoft Copilot Studio Azure AI services Azure OpenAI or equivalent technologies
• Familiarity with AI orchestration frameworks workflow automation and enterprise integration patterns
• Understanding of security governance privacy and risk considerations for AI solutions
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive architecture decisions in regulated environments
• Strong communication skills with the ability to simplify complex AI concepts and drive alignment across technical and business audiences

Desired skills:

• Experience with agentic AI multi-agent systems MCP and emerging AI interoperability standards
• Experience with Microsoft AI ecosystem capabilities including Copilot Studio Azure AI Foundry Azure OpenAI and GitHub Copilot
• Experience with AWS AI services including Amazon Bedrock SageMaker and AI application architectures
• Knowledge of knowledge graphs semantic search vector databases and enterprise retrieval architectures
• Experience defining AI governance model lifecycle management and responsible AI practices
• Experience operating in large-scale highly regulated enterprise environments

Pay range: $63.68 - $71.68 per hour

Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis10 employees will be considered for this position.

If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity please apply!

Ranked a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S. by Staffing Industry Analysts for six consecutive years Genesis10 puts thousands of consultants and employees to work across the United States every year in contract contract-for-hire and permanent placement roles. With more than 300 active clients Genesis10 provides access to many of the Fortune 100 firms and a variety of mid-market organizations across the full spectrum of industry verticals.

For contract roles Genesis10 offers the benefits listed below. If this is a perm-placement opportunity our recruiter can talk you through the unique benefits offered for that particular client. Benefits of Working with Genesis10:

• Access to hundreds of clients most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20 years.
• The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.
• Access to an experienced caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience on average.)
• Behavioral Health Platform
• Medical Dental Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
• Voluntary Term Life Insurance
• 401K
• Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
• Commuter Benefits (Dallas NYC SF and Illinois)

For multiple years running Genesis10 has been recognized as a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S. as a Best Company for Work-Life Balance as a Best Company for Career Growth for Diversity and for Leadership amongst others. To learn more and to view all our available career opportunities please visit us at our website.

Genesis10 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or status as a protected veteran.